1168 PUBLIC EDUCATION. [ART. 77.

1872, ch. 377.

14. They shall, when requested by the board of county school
commissioners, examine candidates for the office of county exam-
iner, and give a certificate of qualification.

Ibid.

15. They may grant to teachers of long experience and estab-
lished reputation professional certificates, which shall be valid
until revoked for cause.

Ibid.

16. The State board of education shall be ex-officio, trustees
of the State normal school; and the principal of the State normal
school shall be ex-officio a trustee of the State agricultural college.

Ibid.

17. All schools and colleges receiving any State donation, shall
make a report, on or before the fifteenth day of November in
each year, of such matters, and in such form as the State board
of education shall require; and said reports, or an abstract there-
from, shall be published by the president of the board in his
annual school report.

Chapter 4. Duties of the County School Commissioners.

1872, ch. 877. 1888, ch. 58.

18. The board of county school commissioners shall meet for
organization on the first Tuesday in January next succeeding
their appointment, or as soon thereafter as may be, and elect a
person not a member of the board, who shall serve as secretary,
treasurer and examiner; and notice of such election, signed by
the president of the board, shall be transmitted to the comp-
troller; provided, that in counties having more than eighty-five
schools, the board may at their discretion appoint one assistant
examiner and fix his salary. The board shall meet once in every
school term, and at other times if necessary, for the transaction
of business; each commissioner shall receive per day for each
day of his attendance at the board, or on committees appointed
by the board, such pay as is allowed the county commissioners in
the several counties of the State; provided, that the aggregate