508 JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS [Feb. 26,

yersally complied with by those who have the necessary qual-
ifications, and that there are three hundred and eighty-five
of the former students of the State Normal School now en-
gaged as teachers in the various parts of the State,

Your Committee found the house very inconveniently crowd-
ed, there being three students on every seat, intended for two,
in the assembly room ; and the recitation rooms not being
large enough to accommodate the classes and the necessary
apparatus.

From what was learned at this visit, joined to previous
study of the subject, your Committee have come to the con-
clusion that the Legislature of 1868, in making the State
Normal School an integral and essential part of the Public
School system, acted with great good judgment, and in ac-
cordance with the most advanced theories of public education.
The great want of our schools has always been a supply of
well-trained teachers, and in order to provide such teachers,
the Normal School must be continued and enlarged.

For this purpose your Committee recommend that the an-
nual appropriation of $9,500 be continued, and that a suffi-
cient sum be appropriated to erect a building large enough
to accommodate the school comfortably ; and that an addi-
tional sum of $3,000 per annum be appropriated for the rent
of a building, until the State can provide ons.

Your Committee have learned that the building at present
occupied by the school cannot, in all probability, be rented
longer than nest July; and in view of the impossibility of
finding any house, already built, possessing the necessary
space and conveniences, your Committee would represent the
necessity of taking such immediate action as will prevent the
possibility of any interruption in the labors of this indispen-
sible auxiliary to the Public School-system.

All of which is submitted, and your Committee respectfully,
ask to be discharged.

WM. J. AYDELOTT,
CHAPMAN BILLINGSLEY,

On the part of the Senate.

EUGENE HODSON,
A. K. STAKE,
JOHN WIER,
O. H. P. CLARK,

On the part of the House:.

Which was read, the Committee discharged, and,

On motion of Mr. Hodson,

The report was referred to the Committee on Ways and
Means.