Year: 1866

1t is hereby enacted by the General
Assembly of the State of Vermont:


Sec. |. The Orange county erammer
school at Randolph Centre is hereby con
StItuted and established normal school
Tor the state of Vermont. for the term of
five years, and the present trustees of said
crammer school and their successors are
constituted trustees of sad normal school.


Sec. =. 1t shall be the duty of the board
OF education 20 nominate a principal teach
er for the school, and no person not so
nominated shall be employed as such prin-
cipal, but the principal when Nominated
and employed shall be allowed to select
his assistants and to provide for the disci-
pllnc OF the school.


Sec. 3. The board of education shall
arrange two courses of study or the school
and wholly control the examinations for
admission and graduation, and shall have
power to grant certificates in the eases
and with the effects hereinafter mentioned.
and to revoke the same for cases shown.
and IN a manner to be by them establish
ed. One course of study shall include all
the branches required by law to he taught
in the common schools of Vermont the
other course shall include all contained in
the first course and higher branches and
shall require for It's completion at least
one full year of study: and certificates of
graduation shall be granted to all who pass
the required examination in the first course
or in both courses


See. 1. The certificates of gradation
from the lower course shall have the effect
OF licenses TO teach in the common schools
of the state for five years from the date
thereof, and certificates of graduation from
the higher course shall have the effect of
licenses to teach in such schools for fifteen
years from the date thereof


Sec. D. The Board of Education at
its first meeting after the passage of this
act, and at each of its annual meetings
thereafter, shall designate one of its MEM
bers whose duty it shall be, together with
the Secretary OF the Board, to attend the
examinations for graduation and deter
mine who shall receive certificates and also
10 visit the school at least twice year on
other occaSons and for such attendance
and visits such member shall receive such
compensation as Is or shall be allowed for
~ 4
Board.


/ See. 6. The Board Of Education shall
in their annual report, state the condition
OF the school. the terms OF admission to il
and OF graduation from it, and the time OF
the commencement of lis sessions: and
they shall cause to be printed OH the cover
OF the school registers, Il statement OF the
commencement of the SESSIONS


/ Sec. :. The Board OF Education may
consider similar proposals from other actd
emics in the state, and establish uut cN-
cceding one normal school i'll each con-
gres-ional district, and arrange ior them
course. Of study. conduct examinations,
give certificates, nominate teachers. and
generally exercise over them the same >u-
prlviSion a> provided i'll thi, act, Aud
/ the trustees OF such academies a> may be
designated as state normal schools, shall
be respectively trustees of such normal
schools, and have the same powers and
RIGHTS aS the trustees Of the normal school
hereby established; provided that the
state normal school hereby established,
and such others as the Board ot Educa-
tion may establish, shall be established
and maintained without any expense to
the state, except the payment Of the Board
of Education for their services.


Sec 2. This act shall not apply TO OF
be binding upon the Orange County
! Grammar School until the trustees there
Of shall. i'll writing, notify the Secretary
Of State Of their acceptance OF the same.


Sec 9. This act shall take effect from
lis passage.


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