ART. — .] PUBLIC EDUCATION.

the convenience and advantage of their respective coun-
ties. In case it may be necessary to open school for a
fraction of a term, it shall close at the end of .the term,

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and all accounts shall be settled at the meeting of the
board of county school commissioners, held at the close
of the term.

CHAPTER VIII.
Teachers.

Accounts

SEC. 1. No person shall be employed as a teacher
under this law, unless such person shall hold a certifi-
cate of qualification, issued by the examiner of the
county in which he or she proposes to teach, or from
the principal of the state normal school, a diploma as
graduate of said normal school, or certificate from the
board of state school commissioners, as hereinbefore
provided.

Certificatee of
qualification.

2. Teachers shall be appointed by the board of dis-
trict school commissioners, and may be removed at any
time said board may think proper, after thirty days
notice.

Appointment
and removal.

3. Teachers shall enter into registers prepared for
that purpose, an accurate account of the attendance of
pupils, of text books used, and branches taught, and
such other statistics as may be required, and make due
return thereof to the board of county school commis-
sioners, at the end of each term, and no teacher shall

Return of
teachers.

be entitled to receive payment for services until the
register, properly filled up and completed, be so re-

Payments.

turned ; their reports shall be filed by the said board
for the purpose of making the annual returns to the
board of state school commissioner.

Reports to be
filed

4. The board of county school commissioners shall
examine any charge preferred against the moral char-
acter of any teacher within their county. They shall
give the teacher reasonable notice of the charge in
writing, and an opportunity to defend himself; and if
the charge be sustained, they shall annul the teacher's

County board
to try charges
against teach-
ers.