No. 31-Continued. INSPECTORS are respectfully requested, in addition to the Statistics furnished by the Directors' Reports, to fill the following blanks : 1. No. of volumes added to town library during the year 2. Whole number of volumes in town library. 3. Number of new districts organized.. 1. Whole number of meetings held by the inspectors. 15. Number of private or select schools in township............. 6. No. attending select schools, as near as may be known 7. Amount voted at the spring election for libraries.. 8. Amount of fines, pehalties, etc., received from county treasurer, for libraries. 9. Amount paid for books for township libraries. 10. Amount paid or due the board of inspectors for services for the year ending Sept. Number of Districts in which the several studies are pursued. ---- 18 P. O. We do hereby certify that the foregoing is a correct abstract of the reports of the Directors of School Districts in this township for School Inspector, Dated at Township of County of School Inspector, Town Clerk. October 18. STATE NORMAL SCHOOL. AN ACT to Consolidate and Amend the Laws Relative to the Establishment of a State Normal School. [Compiled Laws, page 1168.] (3508.) SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Michigan, That all acts done and contracts made by and with the Board of Education under and by virtue of "An act to establish a State Normal School," approved March twenty-eight, eighteen hundred and forty-nine, and the act supplementary thereto, approved March thirty-first, eighteen hundred and forty-nine, be and they are hereby ratified and confirmed. (3509.) SEC. 2. That a State Normal School be established and continued at Ypsilanti, in the county of Washtenaw, upon the site selected by said Board of Education, the exclusive purposes of which shall be the instruction of persons, both male and female, in the art of teaching, and in all the various branches that pertain to a good common school education. Also to give instruction in the mechanic arts, and in the arts of husbandry and agricultural chemistry; in the fundamental laws of the United States, and in what regards the rights and duties of citizens. (3510.) SEC. 3. The said Normal School shall be under the direction of a Board of Education, and shall be governed and supported as herein provided. Said board shall provide for the erection of suitable buildings on the site selected as soon as the title thereto is vested in them in fee, and the means in their hands for that purpose are sufficient; and they may appoint a suitable person to superintend the erection of said buildings. (3511.) SEC. 4. [Said Board of Education shall hereafter -consist of six members, three of whom shall be appointed by the Governor, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate and House of Representatives in Joint Convention. The members of said board heretofore appointed shall hold their offices for the term for which they were designated. At the session of the Legislature for the year eighteen hundred and fifty, and annually thereafter, the vacancies occurring shall be filled as above directed, by appointment, the term of which shall be three years. The Governor shall, by appointment, fill any vacancy that may occur when the Legislature is not in session; such appointment to expire at the close of the next session of the Legislature. The Lieutenant Governor, the State Treasurer,] and the Superintendent of Public Instruction shall, by virtue of their office, be members of said board, and the latter shall be their Secretary, and shall keep an exact and detailed account of their doings. He shall also communicate such reports to the Legislature as are required by this act. The State Treasurer shall, by virtue of his office, be treasurer of said board, and the members thereof shall annually elect one of their number president. And no member of said Board of Education shall, during his continuance in office as a member of said board, act as the agent of any publisher or publishers of school books, or school library books, or be, or become interested in the publication or sale of any such books, as agent or otherwise. And the Governor of this State is hereby authorized and required, upon satisfactory evidence being produced to him that any member of said board is employed as such agent, or is interested in the manner aforesaid, to remove such member of said board from office, and to appoint another member in his place to fill such vacancy.* (3512.) SEC. 5. Said Board of Education shall have power to appoint a principal and assistant to take charge of said school, and such other teachers and officers as may be required in said school, and fix the salary of each, and prescribe their several duties. They shall also have power to remove either the principal, assistant, or teachers, and to appoint others in their stead. They shall prescribe the various books to be used in said school, and shall make all the regulations and * * The parts of section 4, included in brackets, were virtually repealed by Section 9, Article 13 of the State Constitution, adopted 1850. See page 6. by-laws necessary for the good government and management of the same. (3513.) SEC. 6. Said board shall also establish an experimental school in connection with the Normal School, and shall make all the regulations necessary to govern and support the same, and may, in their discretion, admit pupils free of charge for tuition. (3514.) SEC. 7. Said board shall have power, and it shall be their duty, from time to time, as the means at their disposal may warrant, to provide suitable grounds and buildings, implements of husbandry and mechanical tools, either by purchase or lease, for the purpose of more effectually and experimentally carrying out the provisions of the second section of this act, "To give Instruction in the Mechanic Arts, and in the Arts of Husbandry and Agricultural Chemistry." (3515.) SEC. 8. As soon as said Normal School is prepared to receive pupils, the Superintendent of Public Instruction shall give notice of the fact to each county clerk in the State, and shall publish said notice in a newspaper published in each Senatorial district. (3516.) SEC. 9. The Board of Education shall ordain such rules and regulations for the admission of pupils to said school as they shall deem necessary and proper. Every applicant for admission shall undergo an examination in such manner as may be prescribed by the board; and if it shall appear that the applicant is not a person of good moral character, or will not make an apt and good teacher, such applicant shall be rejected. The Board of Education may, in their discretion, require any applicant for admission to said school --other than such as shall, prior to such admission, sign and file with said board a declaration of intention to follow the business of teaching primary schools in this State-to pay, or secure to be paid, such fees for tuition as to said board shall seem reasonable. (3517.) SEC. 10. Any person may be admitted a pupil of said school who shall pass a satisfactory examination: Provided, That the applicant shall, before admission, sign a declaration of intention to follow the business of teaching primary schools in this State: And provided further, That pupils may be admitted without signing such declaration of intention, on such terms as the Normal School Board may prescribe; and that each county shall be entitled to send pupils in the ratio of the Representatives in the State Legislature to which it may be entitled, not to exceed such numberas the board may prescribe. (3518.) SEC. 11. After said school shall have commenced its first term, and at least once in each year thereafter, it shall be visited by three suitable persons, not members, to beappointed by the Board of Education, who shall examine.. thoroughly into the affairs of the school, and report to the Superintendent of Public Instruction their views with regard to its condition, success and usefulness, and any other matters they may judge expedient. Such visitors shall be appointed annually. (3519.) SEC. 12. It shall be the duty of the Superintendent of Public Instruction, once at least in each term, to visit said school; and he shall annually make to the Legislature a full and detailed report of the doings of the Board of Education, and of all their expenditures, and the moneys received fortuition, and the prospects, progress, and usefulness of said school, including so much of the report of said visitors as he may deem advisable. (3520.) SEC. 13. Lectures on chemistry, comparative anatomy, astronomy, and mechanic arts, agricultural chemistry, and on any other science, or any branch of literature that the Board of Education may direct, may be delivered to those attending said school, in such manner, and on such terms and conditions as the Board of Education may prescribe. (3521.) SEC. 14. As soon as any person has attended said institution twenty-two weeks, said person may be examined in the studies required by the board, in such manner as may be prescribed; and if it shall appear that said person possesses the learning and other qualifications necessary to teach a good common school, said person shall receive a certificate to that effect from the principal, to be approved by the Superintendent of Public Instruction. (3522.) SEC. 15. The Board of Education shall have the power and authority to demand and receive the sum or sums donated and subscribed by the citizens of Ypsilanti and its vicinity, in such manner as said board may prescribe, and |