The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1864-03-19

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Be 1t enacted by tie Legislature Of The
State Of Kansas
SECTION I. That the State Normal Scool
established aud located at Emporia, Lyon
county, Kansas, upon the site selected by
the commissioners in pursuance of an act of
the Legislature of the State Of Kansas, emit
| tied can act to establish, locate and endow
State Normal School," approved March
| Sd, 1868, shall be under the direction of
board of directors and shall be governed
and supported as hereinafter provided.
/ SEC. 9. The board of directors shall con-
sist of nine members, six of whom shall be
appointed by tbes9oyernoI, and the Gov
eInor of the State, State Treasurer and State
Superintendent of Public instruction shall
by virtue of their Office be members Of said
board.
SEC. 3. The State Treasurer shall by vir-
tue of his Office be treasurer of said board,
and the members thereof shall annually Sc
lect one of their number president and one
of their number secretary.
Sec. f. No member of said board Of d.
| rectors 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 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 be-
ing produced to him that any member of
said board is employed as such agent or is
interested in the manner aforesaid, by and
with the advice of theeState Superintendent
and State Treasurer, to remove such mem
Der of said board from office and appoint
another member in his place to fill such va
cancy.
Sec. 5. Said board of directors shall
have power to appoint principal and as
sistant to take charge of said school with
out expense to the State, 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 principal,
assistant or teachers and to appoint others
in their stead. They shall also prescribe
the various books to be used In such school
and shall make all the bylaws necessary for
the good government of the same.
SEC, 6. Said board shall also establish
an experimental school in connection with
said Normal School in which the pupils
shall have opportunity To practice the modes
of instruction and disciples inculcated in
the State Normal School and said board
shall make all the regulations necessary to
govern and support the same, and may in
their discretion admit pupils free of charge
for tuition aud without expense to the.State
Sec. 7. As soon as said Normal 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 of the fact to
each county clerk in the State.
SEC. 8. The board of directors shall or
dain such rules and regulations for the ad-
mission of pupils to said Normal School
as they shall deem necessary and proper.
Every applicant for admission shall under
go an examination in such manner as may
be prescribed by the board and if it shall
appear that the applicant is not person of
good moral character, such applicant shall
be rejected. The board of directors may in
their discretion require any applicant for
admission to said school other than such as
shall be by law entitled to admission free,
and who shall prior to such admission, sign
and file with said board declaration of in
teution to follow the business of teaching
common schools in this State, to pay or Sc
cure to be paid such fees for tuition as the
said board shall deem reasonable.
Sec. 8. That each representative district
in this State shall be entitled to send one
pupil each term of twenty-five weeks of
said school. said pupil to be recommended
by the representative Of the district to the
board of directors. The person thus rec
commended shall be admitted free of tuition
Provided, the applicant shall be of good
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tory examination, and sign declaration of
Intention TO follow the businessof teaching
common schools in this State and provi-
ded further, that pupils may be admitted
without signing such declaration of inten-
ton, on such terms as the board of direct
ors may prescribe. And said beard of di
rectors are hereby authorized to make such
order as they may deem proper for the sep
arate education of white and colored pupils
in said institution, securing TO them equal
educational advantages.
SEC. 10. After said Normal School shall
hove commenced its first term, and at least
once in each year thereafter, it shall be Wis
tied by three suitable persons not members
of said board, to be appointed by the Super
intendent of Public instruction, who shall
examine thoroughly into the affairs of the
school and report to the superintendent their
views with regard to its condition, success
aud usefulness and any other matters they
may judge expedient. Such visitors shall
be appointed annually.
SEC. IL. 1t shall be the duty of the Su-
peiintendent of Public Instruction, once at
least in eacn year, to visit said Normal
School. and he shall annually make to the
Legislature full and detailed report of the
doings of the board of directors, and of all
their expenditures and the moneys received
or,tuiuon. and the prospects. progress and
usefulness of said school including so much