Year: 1866

/ " "


publication IN all The Newspapers



An act to established State Normal
School.


ID is hereby enacted By The General as
semby of the State of Vermont;


Sec, l. The Orange County Grammar
School al Randolph Centre is hereby con-
stituted and established Normal School
for the State of Vermont, for the term of
five years, and the present trustees Of said
grammar school and their successors are
constituted trustees of said Normal School.


Sec 2. 1t shall be the duty of the Board
of Education to nominate a principal
teacher for the school, and no person not
so nominated shall be employed as such
principal, but the principal when nominat-
ed and employed shall be allowed to select
his assistants and to provide for the disci.
pline of the school.


Sec. 3. The Board of Education shall
arrange two courses of study for the school,
and wholly control the examinations for
admission and graduation, and shall have
power TO grant certificates in the cases and
with the effects hereinafter mentioned, and
to revoke the same for cause shoAn, and in
manner to be by them established. One
courses of study shall include all the
branches required by law to be taught in
course shalt include all contained in the
first course aud higher branches and shall
require for its completion at least one foil
year of study; and certificates of gradua-
tion shall be granted TO all who pass the
required examination in the first course or
in both courses.


Sec. 4. The certificates of graduation
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.


See. 5. The Board of Education at its
first meeting after the passage OF this act,
and at each of lis annual meetings there
after, shall designate one of its members
whose duty it shall be. together with the
Secretary Of the Board, to attend the exam
inations for graduation and determine who
shall receive certificates, and also TO visit
the school at least twice year on other
occasions and for such attendance and
visits such member shall receive such COM
pensation as is or shall be allowed for at
tending the stated meetings of the Board.


Sec. 6. The Board of Education shall
in their annual report, state the condition
of the school, the terms of admission to it
and of graduation from it, and the time of
the commencement Of its sessions; and
they shall cause to be printed on the cover
of the school registers. a statement Of the
terms of admission and graduation, and
time of the commencement OF the sessions.


Sec. z. The Board OF Education may
consider similar proposals from other acad-
enies in the State, and establish not ex-
ceeding one normal school in each congress
sional district, and arrange for them courses
of study, conduct examinations, give GER
tificates, nominate teachers, and generally
exercise over them the same supervision
as provided in this act. And the trustees
of such academies as 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 of Education may establish, shall be
established and maintained without any
expense to the State, excepting the pay
ment of the Board of Education for their
services.


Sec s This act shall not apply to or
be binding upon the Orange County Gram
mar School until the trustees thereof SHALL
in writing, notify the Secretary of State Of
their acceptance of the same.


Sec. 8. This act shall take effect from
its passage.


Approved, Nov. II, 1866.