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PUBLIC EDUCATION. [ART. — .

CHAPTER IV.
Teachers' Associations.

Associations.

SEC. 1. District, county and state teachers' associa-
tions are recommended as an important means of ele-
vating the standard of public education by mutual
conference, interchange of views and suggestions as to
systems of teaching and discipline.

Duty of county
examiner.

2. It shall be the care of the county examiner to aid
in the organization of these associations, to encourage
attendance, to secure competent lecturers, and to im-
part such information as will encourage teachers in
their work and fit them for the performance of their
duties.

Where associa-
tions held.

3. These associations may occupy any of the school
houses.

CHAPTER V.
Teachers' Institutes,

Where and
when to be
held.

SEC. 1. A teachers' institute, to continue five days,
may be held daring vacation in each county once
a year, and the county examiner shall be present
and shall give normal instruction to the teachers each
day.

Meetings of
institute.

2. The principal of the state normal school shall fix
the time of the meeting of the institute, and it shall
be the duty of the county examiner to notify each
teacher of the time and place of meeting.

Principal to
preside

3. These institutes being designed as temporary
normal schools, shall be presided over by the principal
of the state normal school, if he can be present, assisted
by the county examiner and any member of the board
of county school commissioners who may choose to
attend.

Place of meet-
ing

4. The president of the board of county school com-
missioners shall select the place of meeting.