402 JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS [Feb. 27,

them with but two exceptions are preparing to become teachers
and having signed an agreement to that effect, receive tuition
and books free of cost; your Committee learn that the en-
gagement to teach into which the free students of this school
enter, is almost universally complied with, by those who have
the necessary qualification and that there are three hundred
and eighty-five of the former students of the State Normal
School, now engaged as teachers in the various parts of the
State.

Your Committee found the house very inconveniently
crowded, there being three students on every seat, intended
for two, in the Assembly Room, and the recitations rooms not
being large enough to accomodate the classes and the neces-
sary 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 pubic 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
annual appropriation of nine thousand five hundred dollars,
be continued and that a sufficient sum be appropriated to
erect a building large enough to accomodate the school com-
fortably, and that an additional sum of three thousand dol-
lars, per annum, be appropriated for the rent of a building
until the State can provide one.

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

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

WM. J. AYDELOTT,
CHAPMAN BILLINGSLEY,
Committee on part of Senate.

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

Committee on part of House of Delegates.
Which Was read.