XVI REPORT OF THE

books, and a statement of the indebtedness of the Board at
the close of the fiscal year, and forward a copy to the State
Board of Education." No detailed statement of disburse-
ments is required to be made, or reported to the Legislature,
or to any officer of the State Government, and the annual
statement of receipts and disbursements, is only required to
be published in such form and manner as they may deem pro-
per. The high character of the gentlemen now composing
these several Boards, may be a sufficient guarantee of the
faithful expenditure of the large sums of money coming into
their hands ; but it is not impossible, that at some future day,
persons may attain to the position of School Commissioners,
who may not be superior to other men, in their capacity to
resist temptation. It would be well, therefore, perhaps, for
the Legislature to throw additional guards around these
disbursements, by requiring a detailed account of expendi-
tures to he made to some department, and published for the
information of the people.

By Section 6, of Sub-Chapter 12, of the same Act, addi-
tional students, beyond the number of free students provided
for, are authorized to be received' into the State Normal
School, to the number of one hundred or more, if the capacity
of the school is sufficient, who shall pay twenty-five dollars
per session, and purchase their own books, bat no account of
the receipts from this source appears to be required by the
Act.

Section 7, of the same Sub-Chapter, authorizes the
establishment of Model and Experimental Primary and
Grammar Schools, in connection with the State Normal
School, but requires no account to be rendered of the receipts
from tuition in. such Model Schools, except that the teachers
in such Model and Experimental Schools, shall be paid in
part from the tuition fees derived from the pupils of said
Model Schools. What part of the salaries of such teaclfers
shall be paid from the tuition fees, is not prescribed.

By the 1st Section, of Sub-Chapter 12, of the same Act,
it is provided that the State Board of Education shall appoint
a principal of the State Normal School, at a salary of twenty-
five hundred dollars per annum, but no term of office is pre-