Conditions upon which auditor may issue warrants.

exceed appropria

tions.

SECTION 2. The auditor of state is hereby authorized to issue warrants upon the treasurer of state for the purpose and amount specified in this act, or so much thereof as may be necessary to liquidate all such accounts as may be presented to him: Provided, That no account shall be audited by the auditor of the state, except salaries of officers fixed by law, unless an itemized account is furnished, verified by affidavit, showing that the funds appropriated were applied for the specific purpose only for which they were appropriated.

SEC. 3. That in all cases in which, by the provisions Obligations not to of this act, appropriations are made for specific purposes named, or cause stated, the officers or person having charge of such appropriation, shall in no case by any contract, act or proceeding obligate the State of Kansas at any time, to pay a larger sum than herein specifically appropriated.

SEC. 4. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its publication in the Kansas Weekly Commonwealth.

Approved March 1, 1872.

I hereby certify that the foregoing is a true and correct copy of the original enrolled bill now on file in my office, and the same was published in the Kansas Weekly Commonwealth March 14, 1872.

W. H. SMALLWOOD,

Secretary of State.

CHAPTER LXII.

UNIVERSITY AT QUINDARO-NORMAL DEPART

MENT.

AN ACT making appropriation for the support of the normal department of the Freedman's University at Quindaro, Kansas.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Kansas:

whom appointed.

SECTION 1. That for the support of a normal school at Quindaro, Wyandotte county, to be known as the Colored Normal School of Quindaro: Provided, That the Proviso. board of trustees of the Freedmen's University of Quindaro, Kansas, shall furnish to the state suitable rooms and apparatus for the successful working of said normal school, free of charge. A board of directors shall be ap- Directors, by pointed for such school, to consist of six (6) members, to be appointed by the state superintendent from the state at large. No member of said board shall receive any compensation for services as such director. The term of office shall be three years, but the first board shall contain but two members for the full term, two for the fractional term of two years, and two for the fractional term of one year, and shall hold their offices until their successors are appointed, as herein specified.

SEC. 2. The board of directors are hereby authorized to organize, by the election of officers to make by-laws quorum. for their meeting and government in the transaction of their business, and shall have power to transact all necessary business at any meeting where a quorum, which shall consist of four members, shall be present.

SEC. 3. Said board of directors shall have power to appoint officers, fix salaries, prescribe books to be used in said school courses of instruction, and to make all regulations necessary for the successful working of the school.

Powers.

Discipline and practice.

Proviso.

Visitors.

Duty of state superintendent.

SEC. 4. Said board is hereby authorized to constitute a model or experimental department, in which the advanced pupils of said school shall have the opportunity to observe and practice the modes of instruction and discipline inculcated in the normal schools of the state.

SEC. 5. When the school is prepared to receive pupils, the secretary of the board of directors shall notify the superintendent of public instruction, who shall immediately give notice to the county superintendents of the state.

SEC. 6. Each representative and senatorial district of the state shall be entitled to send, and to have one pupil in said normal school during each separate course of instruction. Said pupil must be recommended by the representative of the district from which he comes, to the board of directors, and must be a resident of the state, and such pupil shall be admitted free of charge: Provided, The applicant shall be twelve years of age, of good moral character, and shall sustain a satisfactory examination, and sign a declaration of intention to follow the profession of teaching.

SEC. 7. If any representative district shall fail to represent itself by any pupil in said normal school, their place may be supplied by any other representative district of the state, the manner of apportionment being the same as in section six of this act.

SEC. 8. After said normal 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 of the board of directors, to be appointed by the state superintendent of public instruction, who shall examine minutely the various departments of the school, and report in writing to the state superintendent their views with regard to the condition of said sohool, and any other matter they may deem expedient. Such visitors shall be appointed annually.

SEC. 9. It shall be the duty of the state superintendent of public instruction once at least in each year to

visit said normal school, and arnually make to the legislature a full and detailed report of the doings of said board of directors, and of all their expenses, showing the amounts paid to teachers and for other purposes, together with the number of months said school shall have been in operation, and shall give his views of the prospects, progress and usefulness of said school; and the legislature may, from time to time, pass such laws for the government of the board of directors as it may deem for the best interests of the state.

SEC. 10. That the sum of twenty-five hundred dollars is hereby appropriated for the support of said normal school Appropriation. for the payment of teachers' salaries, for the purchase of books and apparatus, and the defraying of such incidental expenses as in the opinion of the board of directors shall be found necessary. Said appropriation shall be drawn from time to time upon the requisition of the pres- How drawn. ident of the board, approved by the board of directors, or a majority of them.

SEC. 11. All teachers appointed by the board of directors shall be subject to the approval of the state superintendent of public instruction.

SEC. 12. This act shall take effect from and after its publication in the Kansas Weekly Commonwealth.

Approved March 1, 1872.

I hereby certify that the foregoing is a true and correct copy of the original enrolled bill now on file in my office, and that the same was published in the Kansas Weekly Commonwealth March 14, 1872.

W. II. SMALLWOOD,
Secretary of State.

CHAPTER LXIII.

POMOLOGICAL COMMISSION.

ACT to reimburse the commission from this State to the American Pomological Congress, at Richmond, its expenses in the discharge of its duty.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Kansas:

SECTION 1. That the sum of four hundred and thirty-eight 55-100 dollars is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the treasury, not otherwise appropriated, for the payment of expenses incurred by Wm. M. Housley, J. Stayman and F. Wellhouse, the committee who had charge of the Kansas fruits at the American Pomological Congress, held in Richmond, in the year 1871.

SEC. 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its publication in the Kansas Weekly Commonwealth.

Approved February 29, 1872.

I hereby certify that the foregoing is a true and correct copy of the original enrolled bill now on file in my office, and that the same was published in the Kansas Weekly Commonwealth March 14, 1872.

W. H. SMALLWOOD,
Secretary of State.