A. W. BRADFORD, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

competent to teach, but no certificate shall be
granted without satisfactory evidence of the moral
character of the applicant.

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Sec. 2. The certificates used shall be numbered
and registered for each city and county, in a book
kept by the said President, and to deliver to his
successors in office, and shall be denominated first
or second grade, as the case may be. Certificates
of the first grade shall embrace Orthography,
Reading, Writing, Arithmetic, Geography, His-
tory, English Grammar, Book-keeping, Algebra
and Natural Philosophy; and the second grade
shall embrace Orthography, Reading, Writing,
Arithmetic, Geography, History and English
Grammar. Blank certificates to be obtained from
the State Superintendent's office, in same way that
text books and stationery are.

Certificates.

Sec. 3. No applicant shall be examined as a
Teacher, being a male, under twenty years of age;
and if a female, under eighteen years of age.

Age of Teach-
ers.

Sec. 4. No certificate shall continue in force
longer than three years.

Time limited.

Sec. 5. The President shall hold regular exam-
inations of Teachers at each quarterly meeting
of the Board, and at other times when requested
by any District Commissioner.

Quarterly ex-
amination.

Sec. 6, Any Teacher holding a certificate issued
by a President, may be examined at any time by
the State Superintendent or a Professor of the
Normal School, deputed by the State Superintend-
ent, and if found deficient, the certificate shall be
cancelled.

Re-examina-
tion.

Sec. 7. Each Teacher examined under this law,
before receiving a certificate, shall pay to the
Treasurer of the Board of School Commissioners,
the sum of two dollars, if first grade, or one dol-
lar, if of the second grade.

CHAPTER II.— TEACHERS' ASSOCIATIONS.

Fee for cer-
tificate.

SECTION 1. District, County and State Teachers'
Associations are recommended as an important '
method of elevating the standard of Public Instruc-
tion by mutual conference, interchange of views,

Object of Asso-
ciation.