THOMAS SWANN, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR, 759

shall give bond in such amount as the Board may direct. The Principal of said school shall receive a salary of twenty-five hundred dollars per annum, payable quarterly, and the professors and teachers of the Model School shall receive such salaries as the Board may decide.
Sec. 2. The sessions of the State Normal School, until otherwise provided for by the State, shall be held in such building as the State Board may select, the rent to be charged among the incidental expenses.	Sessions Nor- mal School.
Sec. 3. The Faculty of the State Normal School shall consist of the Principal and of two male and two female Professors, who shall be appointed by the Trustees of the Normal School, and to have such salaries and perform such duties as said Board may direct. And the State Superintendent now acting under the system of public instruction about to expire by limitation of the Constitution, shall transfer all school property and effects in his hands to the Principal of the State Normal School.	Faculty.
Sec. 4. The sessions of the State Normal School shall be determined by the Board of Trustees of State Normal School ; provided, that the school shall be open for not less than nine months in each year.	Sessions Nor- mal School.
Sec. 5. Students of both sexes shall be admitted to the State Normal School ; females at the age of sixteen years, and males at the age of seventeen years. The students shall be apportioned by the Trustees of the State Normal School among the several counties and the city of Baltimore, in pro- portion to their respective representation in the General Assembly of the State. The students shall be selected by the several Boards of County School Commissioners, and the Board of Commis- sioners of Public Schools of the city of Baltimore, from among persons having the scholastic qualifi- cations hereinbefore required for teachers. Before any appointment shall be made, the applicants shall procure the certificate of the County Ex- aminer in testimony of their scholastic proficiency, and shall also file a written declaration that their object in obtaining admission is to qualify them- selves as Public School teachers, and that it is	Students to State Normal School.