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PUBLIC INSTRUCTION. [ART. — .
possessed of the qualifications required of teachers

Objects of nor
mal school.

under this law; the object of the normal school
being not to educate teachers in studies now re-
quired by law, but to receive such as are found com-
petent in these studies, and to train them in the best
methods of teaching and conducting public schools.
Before any appointment shall be made the applicants
shall file a written declaration, that their object in

Mode of
admission

getting admission to the school is to qualify them-
selves for the employment within the state ; and in
case any students shall fail to fulfil 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 appli-
cants from any county to fill the number of appoint-
ments, then the state superintendent may fill all
vacancies, by selecting from among qualified appli-
cants from any other portion of the state.

Ibid s 6
Additional
students

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.-

Ibid, s 7
Superintend-
ent ex-offico
principal.

His duties.

110. The state superintendent shall be, ex-officio,
the principal of the normal school, shall prescribe
the course of study and supervise the general curri-
culum in every particular not provided for in this.

Model schools.

law : he shall make provision for model primary and
grammar schools, under permanent and highly quali-
fied 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