CHAPTER XV.
District Libraries.

For the further encouragement of education, dis-
trict libraries ought to be established in each school
house district under the care of the teacher, as libra-
rian; for this purpose the sum of ten dollars per
annum is ordered to be paid by the board of county
school commissioners out of the state school fund, to
any school house district, as library money, as long as

Libraries.
Appropriation.

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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.

Meetings.

3. These institutes being designed as temporary nor-
mal schools, shall be presided over by the principal or
one of the professors of the state normal school, if he
can be present, assisted by the county examiner and
any member of the board of county school commis-
sioners who may choose to attend.

Who shall pre-
side.

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

CHAPTER XIV.
Teachers1 Associations.

Place of meet-
ing.

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.

Associations
recommended.

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.

Examiner to
aid.

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

Occupy school
houses.