ART. ] PUBLIC INSTRUCTION.

OF THE BOARD OF EDUCATION.

4. The State Board of Education, for the purpose of pro-
moting the interests of public instruction, shall hold regular
meetings on the first Wednesday in March, June, September
and December of each year, and special meetings as often as the
Governor may direct.

5. The board shall supervise all colleges and schools that re-
ceive any State donation or are incorporated by act of the Gene-
ral Assembly, and require annual reports which shall be referred
to the State Superintendent; they shall select a uniform series
of text books for use in every public school and high school
established or aided under this act; they shall issue a uniform
code of by-laws for the government of all the county school
boards, and the schools and high schools under their charge;
they shall appoint the professors of the State Normal School
and determine their salaries; they shall have power to remove
any county school commissioner whenever it shall have been
proven to their satisfaction that he has been guilty of any will-
ful violation or neglect of duty under this act or of willfully
disobeying any decision, order or regulation of the State Super-
intendent.

6. The Board of Education may take and hold to it and its
successors, in trust for the State, for any city or county, for any
school district, or for any particular school within the State, any
grant or devise of lands, and any donations or bequests of
money or other personal property made to it for educational
purposes; and shall pay over to the State Treasurer for safe
keeping and investment, all money and other personal property
so received. The Treasurer shall, on the warrant of the Comp-
troller, pay from time to time the income of such investments,
to the school authorities of the city, county or district for whose
benefit the bequest or donation was made.

7. The incidental expenses of the board, and the expenses of
the members thereof, incurred in the discharge of their official