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quired of teachers under this law; the object of the Normal
School being not to educate teachers in studies now required by
law, but to receive such as are found competent in these studies,
and to train them in the best methods of teaching and con-
ducting public schools. Before any appointment shall be made
the applicants shall file a written declaration, that their object
in getting admission to the school is to qualify themselves for
the employment within the State; and in case any students shall
fail to fulfill their obligations, they shall forfeit and pay thirty
dollars for each session they have attended the Normal School,
as recompense for their tuition and the use of text books. If
there be not a sufficient number of applicants from any county
to fill the number of appointments, then the State Superintendent
may fill all vacancies, by selecting from among qualified appli-
cants from any other portion of the State.

109. In addition to the students admitted from the counties,
who shall enjoy all the privileges of the school and be furnished
with the use of text books free of charge; there may be admitted
fifty pupils possessed of the required qualifications, who desire
to prepare themselves for the duties of teachers in private schools
and academies, who shall pay the sum of twenty-five dollars per
session, and purchase their own text books, and be subject in
every respect to the rules and regulations as other students are.

110. The State Superintendent shall be, ex officio, the Princi-
pal of the Normal School, shall prescribe the course of study
and supervise the general curriculum in every particular not
provided for in this law; he shall make provision for model
primary and grammar schools, under permanent and highly
qualified teachers, in which the student of the Normal School
shall have opportunity to practice the modes of instruction and
discipline inculcated in the Normal School. The salary of the
teachers of the model and experimental school, to be paid in
part, from the tuition fees derived from the pupils of said model
schools.

111. The annual sum of seven thousand dollars is hereby
appropriated for the support of the State Normal School, to be