ART. 77] STATE NORMAL SCHOOLS——DISTRICT LIBRARIES. 509

State Normal School.

1898. ch. 221.

71. The faculty of the State normal school shall consist of
the principal and of as many teachers as may be determined by
the State board of education, who shall be appointed by said
board, and have such salaries and perform such duties as said
board may direct. The State board of education shall appoint
as a member of the faculty of the State normal school a gentle-
man fully qualified, whose chief duty shall be to hold a teachers'
institute in each county of the State for five days in each year,
and who shall be paid such salary as the State board of education
may determine. The said member of the faculty shall carry out
the directions of the said board, and be amenable to the board.
He shall be, when first appointed, not more than fifty years of
age.

Ibid.

76. The annual sum of twenty thousand dollars is hereby
appropriated for the support of the State normal school, to be
paid in quarterly instalments by the treasurer, on the warrant of
the comptroller, to the State board of education, and to be applied
to the payment of teachers' salaries and the purchase of educa-
tional apparatus; for the salary of the principal of the normal
school, his traveling expenses in attending meetings of the
teachers' institute and superintending the schools throughout the
State, and for such assistance as may be required in the State
normal school during his absence on duty; and for text-books,
fuel, stationery, light and other incidental expenses of the
school.

District Libraries.

1898, ch. 515.

87 A. The governing board of any municipality incorporated
under the laws of this State, shall have power to establish and
maintain a public library and reading room for the use and bene-
fit of such municipality, and may levy an annual tax, not exceed-
ing five cents on each one hundred dollars of an assessed valua-
tion of taxable property. Such tax to be collected and levied in
like manner as other general taxes of said municipality, and
when collected, to be known as the "library fund; " provided,