amount of said lien or liens, together with prior liens, if any such exist.

Auditor General.

Section 2008. In case any real estate shall, at any Return to such sale, be struck down on the bid of the State Board of Education, it shall make return of its action in the premises to the Auditor General, who, upon approv ing the same, shall give a certificate of the fact and amount payable out of any appropriation made or to be made for that purpose.

Devises, gifts,

Section 2009. Any State Normal School may receive, hold, and use, under the direction of its trus- grants, etc. tees as aforesaid, any devise, bequest, gift, grant, or endowment of property, whether real or personal, which may be made to it, and the same, if accepted, shall be so applied by the trustees as shall, in the opinion of the majority of them, increase the efficiency and usefulness of the said school, subject, however, to any terms, conditions, or restrictions which may be attached to such devise, bequest, gift, grant, or endowment, not inconsistent with the spirit and purpose of this act, and the said trustees shall have authority to bring suit in their name as trustees, and to do all other things necessary for the recovery, use, and application of the same.

Annual statement.

Section 2010. The trustees of each of said State Normal Schools shall annually, in the month of August, furnish, under oath or affirmation of the presi dent of the board of trustees, to the Superintendent of Public Instruction, a full account of its pecuniary condition, showing income and debts, if any, salaries and other expenses, together with the number of students admitted and graduated, improvements made during the preceding year, and such other information as the said Superintendent of Public Instruction may, from time to time, by his general circular to all of said schools, require to be furnished, and each of said schools shall always be open to the visitation and in- Visitation and spection of said Superintendent of Public Instruction, and the superintendents of public schools within the Normal School district.

inspection.

fessors, et al.

Section 2011. The trustees of each State Normal Principal, proSchool shall appoint a principal, and such professors, teachers, and other officers and employees as the condition of the school and the number of students may require.

Section 2012. The principal shall teach such classes Duties of as may be assigned to him by the trustees, and he shall principal. be charged with the entire discipline and government of the school, in conformity with such regulations as shall, from time to time, be adopted by the trustees and approved by the Superintendent of Public Instruction. Section 2013. The professors, teachers, and other Duties of officers and employees shall teach such branches, or

teachers, et al.

No religious test.

Model schools.

Course of study.

Qualifications for admission, etc.

Text-books.

Boarding and tuition.

perform such duties, as shall be assigned them by the trustees or by the principal.

Section 2014. No religious test or qualification shall be required to entitle any one to become a contributor, stockholder, trustee, professor, teacher, or student in any State Normal School.

Section 2015. Each State Normal School shall have one or more practice or model schools, with not less than one hundred pupils, and so arranged that the students of the normal schools shall therein acquire a practical knowledge of the art of teaching, under the instruction of their proper teachers. It shall be lawful for the trustees of any State Normal School, and the board of school directors of any district, to enter into an arrangement or agreement between such trustees and such board of school directors, by which all or part of the pupils of such school district may be instructed in the model school of any State Normal School, and the expenses of such instruction shall be paid as may be agreed upon between the board of school directors of such district and the trustees of such State Normal School. Such action of the said school district or districts and the trustees of such State Normal School shall be entered, respectively, upon the minutes of the said respective boards.

Section 2016. Meetings of the principals of the several State Normal Schools, for the purpose of making a course or courses of study for said schools, and arranging other matters coming within their jurisdiction as a body, shall be called at Harrisburg, or elsewhere, by the Superintendent of Public Instruction, whenever he shall deem it necessary, or upon a request so to do, made by three principals of State Normal Schools.

Section 2017. In all of the State Normal Schools, the length of the course or courses of study, the qualifications for admission thereto, and for graduation therefrom, and the branches or subjects to be included therein, shall be determined by the principals of the State Normal Schools, and the action of a majority of said principals shall be binding on all the schools in reference to the length of the course or courses of study in the State Normal Schools, the qualifications for admission thereto and graduation therefrom, and the branches or subjects to be included therein, when approved by the Superintendat of Public Instruction.

Section 2018. All text-books used in a State Normal School shall be selected by its proper professors and teachers, with the approval of the principal thereof.

Section 2019. The cost of boarding and tuition shall be fixed by the trustees of the several State Norma! Schools, with the approval of the Superintendent of Public Instruction, but no difference in the charge for

boarding and tuition shall be made in favor of any students pursuing similar studies.

teach.

Section 2020. The tuition of all students at the Agreement to State Normal Schools, who are not less than seventeen years of age, and who sign an agreement to teach in the public schools of this Commonwealth for not less than two years, and who are pursuing regular courses in pedagogy therein, shall be paid by the Commonwealth, and sufficient appropriations shall be made for this purpose. The trustees of any State Normal School, when it does not interfere with its purpose to educate and train teachers, may admit other students than those preparing to teach: Provided, That all such Proviso. students, except those in the model school, shall pay regular tuition: And provided, That when there is Proviso. insufficient room for all who apply, preference shall be given to those preparing to teach.

Examiners.

Section 2021. The State Board of Normal School Normal School Examiners at a State Normal School shall consist of the Superintendent of Public Instruction, or his representative, as president; of two principals of State Normal Schools, of whom the principal of the school where the students are to be examined shall be one, together with a sufficient number of county, district, or assistant county or district superintendents, all to be appointed by the Superintendent of Public Instruction.

Questions for

Section 2022. In order to make the final examination as nearly uniform as possible, the Superintend- examinations. ent of Public Instruction may have the questions for these examinations prepared and furnished to the different State Normal Schools.

Section 2023. No person shall graduate at a State Normal School who receives more than one negative vote from a state board of examiners conducting the examination therein.

Section 2024. The expenses incurred by the members of the several State Boards of Normal School Examiners shall be paid by the State, and the sum of three thousand dollars ($3,000.00), or so much thereof as may be necessary, shall be annually appropriated for that purpose.

Section 2025. Every graduate from a State Normal School shall receive a State Normal School certificate, signed by the Superintendent of Public Instruction, the President of the State Board of Normal School Examiners, the principal of the State Normal School, and the president or secretary of the board of trustees thereof. Such certificate shall set forth expressly the branches in which its holder is qualified to teach, and shall be received as full evidence of his qualification to teach any of the branches therein enumerated, for two full annual school terms, in any public school in this Commonwealth, without further examination.

Expenses.

Certificates.

Diplomas.

Additional branches.

Issuing of certificates.

Condemnation of land.

Insurance money.

Warrants.

Section 2026. A graduate of a State Normal School who, after such graduation, has taught for two school terms in the public schools of this Commonwealth, and who presents a certificate of good moral character, and of successful teaching for two school terms, from the board or boards of school directors in whose employment he has taught, countersigned by the proper superintendent or superintendents, shall be granted a State Normal School diploma by the State Normal School from which he was graduated, signed by the same persons who sign the State Normal School certificates from such school, which diploma shall be received as full evidence of his qualification to teach any of the branches set forth in his State Normal School certificate or diploma, in any public school in this Commonwealth without further examination.

Section 2027. Whenever the holder of any State Normal School certificate or diploma shall have prepared for examination in any branches of study additional to those in such certificate or diploma, he may attend the annual examination at a State Normal School, and any branches in which he is found duly qualified shall be added to and included in said certificate or diploma.

Section 2028. No temporary or provisional teachers' certificate, of any less degree of scholarship than that required by the regularly adopted course or courses of the State Normal Schools, shall be issued by any State Normal School or by the faculty thereof.

Section 2029. It shall be lawful for any State Normal School in this Commonwealth to condemn and take any land required by it for its use, in the same manner as land may be condemned and taken by any school district as prescribed in this act; Provided, That before any land is so taken by any State Normal School, a proper bond with sufficient security, to be approved by the court of common pleas of the proper county, conditioned for the payment of all damages incurred on account of taking such land, shall be filed in said court, for the use of the owners of the land so taken.

Section 2030. All moneys that may be received by this Commonwealth, from any insurance policy or policies upon the buildings belonging to any of the State Normal Schools, shall be held by the State Treasurer in trust, for the repairing and rebuilding of the part covered by such insurance policy or policies, under the direction of the trustees of such Normal Schools. Section 2031. When the trustees of any State Normal school, whose buildings insured for use of the State have been injured or destroyed by fire, shall have repaired or rebuilt the part covered by such insurance policy or policies, and shall satisfy the Auditor General that the amount of insurance money re

ceived by the State has been expended on such repairs or rebuilding, the Superintendent of Public Instruction shall draw his warrant in favor of said State Normal School for the amount of such insurance money, or for such part thereof as the Auditor General is satisfied has been expended on such repairs or rebuilding, and the State Treasurer is authorized and required to pay said warrant out of the insurance money thus received.

Normal Schools

Section 2032. In order that the State Normal Purchase of Schools may be owned and controlled by the Common- by the State. wealth, for the better preparation of teachers, the State Board of Education is hereby authorized and empowered to inquire into the propriety of purchasing any State Normal School, and if it be found that the stockholders, or other owners thereof, are desirous of selling and conveying the property of any such institution to the Commonwealth, it shall be the duty of the said State Board of Education to make the most advantageous arrangements possible for the purchase of the same, and when such negotiations have been concluded, to enter into an agreement, in writing, embodying the terms and conditions upon which the purchase is effected and the property agreed to be conveyed: Pro- Previso. vided, That in no case shall more be paid for any State Normal School than the actual amount originally paid for the stock thereof.

Section 2033. For the purpose of making payment for Appropriations. the property of any such schools, purchased as herein provided, there shall be appropriated in the general appropriation bill of nineteen hundred and eleven (1911), and at each subsequent session of the Legislature, not less than two hundred thousand dollars ($200,000), until all of the State Normal Schools which are offered on terms acceptable to the State Board of Education have been bought, which shall be paid out by warrant, drawn by the Auditor General upon the State Treasurer, when certified by the State Board of Education: Provided, however, That when the funds available Proviso. for such purchases are insufficient to pay for

all the State Normal Schools offered on terms satisfactory to the State Board of Education, the said board shall select the schools whose purchase it deems most advantageous to the Commonwealth at that time; and,

Provided further, That the agreements made by the Proviso. State Board of Education with the stockholders of any State Normal School, as herein authorized, shall be submitted to and approved by the Governor of this Commonwealth before it is binding and before any payment on account of the same is made.

Section 2034. Upon the payment of the purchase money to the stockholders of any such State Normal School, properly executed deeds of conveyance for all

Approval of
Governor.

Deeds.