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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.

I'upils.

(2221.) SEC. 14. As soon as any person has attended said Examination of 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 Certificate of common school, said person shall receive a certificate to that effect from the Principal, to be approved by the Superintendent of Public Instruction.

qualifications.

ceive Donations

tions.

them.

of buildings, etc,

(2222.) SEC. 15. The Board of Education shall have the power Board may re and authority to demand and receive the sum or sums donated and Subscrip and subscribed by the citizens of Ypsilanti and its vicinity, in such manner as said boad may prescribe, and apply the same to the erection and completion of the necessary buildings, the How to apply purchase of the necessay books, apparatus, furniture and fixtures, and for various other incidental expenses to be incurred by said board in pursuance of the provisions of this act; and if any surplus shall remain, to apply the same in defraying the expenses of conducting said school. And any deficit which Deficit in erection may arise in the erection and completion of said buildings and how paid." purchases aforesaid, shall be paid out of the principal to be received on the sale of lands hereinafter mentioned, not to exceed the sum of ten thousand dollars. Such sum shall be paid from time to time on the warrant of the Auditor General, to be drawn in pursuance of the certificate of the Superintendent of Building, or Secretary of the Board, and countersigned by the President of the Board of Education; and no such certificate shall be issued until work shall be done, or services rendered, or buildings erected, or books, apparatus, fixtures, or furniture purchased for the Normal School, under the direction of the Board of Education, entitling the applicant to such certificate, according to a contract or agreement with said board for that purpose, or for services and expenses of the board or some member thereof, in connection with the selection of the site, or the erection of the Normal School buildings, or the improvement of the grounds.

(2223.) SEC. 16. The ten sections of salt spring lands, located by the Board of Education under the provisions of sections fifteen and sixteen of "An Act to Establish a State Normal School," 1819, p. 157. approved March twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and forty

constitute En

of Lands, and

how sold.

nine, together with the fifteen sections of said salt spring lands located under the provisions of section sixteen of said act, and all such lands as may be granted by Congress, or received or set apart (in any manner), in lieu of any portion of said land to which the title may prove insufficient, and all donations, in land or otherwise, to the State in trust, or to the Board of Education for the support of a Normal School, shall What Lands to constitute a fund, to be called the Normal School Endowment dowment Fund. Fund, and shall be reserved from sale until the same shall be Minimum price appraised. The minimum price of said lands shall be four dollars per acre; and it shall be the duty of the officer authorized to sell said lands, to cause the same to be appraised as soon as practicable, in the manner provided for the appraisal of other lands; none of said lands shall be sold for less than the minimum price fixed by law. It shall not be necessary to appraise any of said lands which have heretofore been appraised under existing provisions of law; and the proceeds of sales of any of said lands heretofore appraised and sold, shall constitute a part of the fund herein provided. After such appraisal, such land shall be and remain subject to sale at the State land office, as is now, or shall be hereafter provided by law; and the principal shall be and remain a perpetual fund for the use of said institution (except as herein provided). The instalments of principal paid by the purchasers, shall be paid into the State. Treasury; and the interest thereon from the time of its receipt, or from the time of the preceding computation of interest, as the same may be, shall be computed by the Auditor General and State Treasurer, at the close of each fiscal year, at the rate of six per cent. per annum, and together with all interest paid by purchasers of any portion of said lands, shall be passed to the credit of the Normal School interst fund, to be drawn therefrom upon the warrant af the Auditor General, issued in pursuance of a certificate of the Board of Education, signed by their Secretary and countersigned by their President, that the money is due and payable to the Principal of the Normal School, or his assistants, or the Teachers or officers employed, or to the members of the board, or the Board of Visitors, as herein authorized, or for necessary incidental expenses in the support or maintenance of said School, or some of its departments.

Funds under con

trol of Board of Education.

(2224.) SEC. 17. Said funds shall be under the direction and control of the Board of Education, subject to the provisions herein contained. The Treasurer of said board shall pay out

Board of Educa

how paid.

Officers, how

and Visitors.

of the proper fund all orders or drafts for moneys to be expended under the provisions of this act. Such orders or drafts to be drawn by the Auditor General on the certificate of the Secretary, countersigned by the President of the Board. No such certificates shall be given except upon accounts audited and allowed by the board at a regular meeting. (2225.) SEC. 18. The services, and all necessary traveling Expenses of and other expenses, already or hereafter to be incurred by any tion and Visitors, member of the Board of Education, or the Board of Visitors, shall be paid on the proper certificate out of any funds belonging to said institution in the hands of the Treasurer, until the erection and completion of the necessary buildings. The Principal, assistants, Teachers and other officers employed Instructors and in said school, shall be paid out of the Normal School interest paid fund, and from receipts for tuition; and the services and expenses of the Board of Education, after the erection of the necessary buildings, and other expenses incident to said institution, shall be paid for out of the Normal School interest fund, in the same manner, as near as may be, as is required in regard to moneys drawn for the payment of the Principal or other Teachers. The members of the Board of Education and the Pay of Members Visitors shall be entitled to two dollars per day for their actual services, and to their necessary traveling and other expenses. (2226.) SEC. 19. For the purpose of rendering more efficient "The Board of their organization, and to enable them the more fully to carry body Corporate into effect the provisions herein contained, the members of the Board of Education, now holding their offices under the provisions of "An Act to establish a State Normal School," approved March 28th, 1849, and their successors in office, are hereby constituted a body politic and corporate, by the name of "The Board of Education," for the purposes herein contemplated, and subject to such modifications as may be made thereto, and in that name shall have perpetual succession, and shall be, and they are hereby empowered to purchase, have, hold, possess and enjoy to themselves and their successors, lands, tenements, hereditaments, goods, chattels and effects of every kind, and the same to grant, alien, sell, invest and dispose of, to sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded in all Courts in this State, to have and to use a common seal, and the same to change, alter and renew at pleasure, and to make such by-laws and regulations as they may deem proper for the well ordering and government of said Corporation and the transaction of its business: Provided, The same be not

Education" to be

their powers, etc

To be subject to provisions of

vised Statutes of

1846.

Chapter 73.

repugnant to the Constitution or laws of this State or of the United States.

(2227.) SEC. 20. Said Corporation shall be subject to the Chap. 55 of Re provisions of chapter fifty-five of the Revised Statutes of 1846, so far as the same can apply, and are not inconsistent with the provisions of this act. They shall have power to transact all necessary business at any meeting, a quorum being present; and meetings may be called in such manner as their by-laws may provide, and a quorum shall consist of a majority First Meeting, of the members. The first meeting under this act may be held at such time and place as may be directed by the Secretary, and no publication of notice thereof shall be necessary; and the attendance of a quorum shall render valid the Process against proceedings of such meeting. All process against said Corporation shall be served on the President or Secretary thereof.

when held.

Baard, how served.

Cortain enact-
ments repealed.
1844, p. 157.
1849, p. 221.

Legislature may alter, etc., this Act.

(2228.) SEC. 21. Sections four, fifteen, and sixteen of "An Act to establish a State Normal School," approved March 28th, 1849, and all of the provisions of said act, and the act supplementary thereto, which are inconsistent with the provisions of this act, are hereby repealed. (b)

(2229.) SEC. 22. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage, and the Legislature may at any time alter, amend or repeal the same by a vote of two-thirds of the members present in each House.

Diplomas may be

granted to gradu

An Act Providing for Granting Diplomas to Graduates of the State Normal School.

[Approved February 13, 1857. Laws of 1857, p. 231.]

(2230.) SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, ates from Normal That the Board of Instruction of the State Normal School are

School.

Diplomas to be accompanied by

authorized to grant to graduates of said institution diplomas, which, when signed by the members of the State Board of Education, shall be regarded as evidence that such graduates have completed the prescribed course of study in said institution.

(2231.) SEC. 2. Each diploma so conferred shall be accomCertificate which panied by a certificate, signed by the Board of Instruction, which, when recorded in the office of the clerk of any township

shall serve as

(b) It is believed that all the provisions of the Acts here referred to, not expressly repealed, and not inconsistent with the provisions of this Act, are re-enacted by it. They are, therefore, not given here.

Certificate of

in this State, shall serve the holder as a certificate of qualifi- qualification to cation to teach in any primary school of said township, until Teach the same shall be amended (annulled) by the School Inspectors of such township under the provisions of law for annulling certificates.

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tion for School.

(2232.) SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, Selection of loca That the President and Executive Committee of the Michigan State Agricultural Society be, and are hereby authorized to select, subject to the approval of the State Board of Education, a location and site for a State Agricultural School, within ten miles of Lansing; and subject to such approval, contract for Farm to be pus and purchase for the State of Michigan such lands, not less chased. than five hundred acres, nor more than one thousand acres, in one body, for the purpose of an experimental farm and site for such Agricultural School: Provided, That the amount to be paid for such farm and site shall not exceed fifteen dollars per acre, and that the conveyance or conveyances be made to the State of Michigan.

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