Board of education.

Appointm't of the board.

President of the board,

establishing

tal laws of the United States, and in what regards the rights and duties of citizens.

Sec. 2. The said normal school shall be under the direction of a board of education, and shall be governed and supported as hereinafter provided.

Sec. 3. There shall be appointed by the governor, by and with the advice and consent of the senate, a board of education consisting of three persons, one of whom shall hold his office for three years, another for two years and the other for one year. The governor shall designate which person is to hold his office for one year, which for two years, and which for three years. At each session of the legislature the vacancy occurring shall be filled as above directed. The governor shall fill any vacancy that may occur when the legislature is not in session. The lieutenant governor and the superintendent of public instruction shall, by virtue of their office, be members of said board, and the latter shall be their secretary, and shall keep an exact and detailed account of their doings. He shall also communicate such reports to the legislature as are required by this act.

Sec. 4. The board of education shall annually elect one of their his duty in number president, who shall be empowered to visit the various vil. the school. lages and places of importance in the state, and obt in donations. and receive propositions for the establishment of said normal school.

Instructors

to be ap

power of board.

Sec. 5. Said board of education shall appoint a principal and an pointed by assistant to take charge of said school. They shall also appoin; the bord such other teachers as may be required in said school, and fix the salary of cach, and prescribe their several duties. They shall prescribe the various text books to be used in said institution, and shall make all the regulations and by-laws necessary for the good government and management of said school.

Ibid.

Model

school.

Sec. 6. Said board of education shall procure a site, and erect buildings thereon suitable for said institution in or near some village in this state, where it can most conveniently be done, and where in their judgment, it will most subserve the best interests of the

state.

Sec. 7. They shall also establish a model school in connection with a normal school, and shall make all the regulations necessary to govern and support the same.

Sec. 8 As soon as said institution is prepared to receive pupils, Notice of the superintendent of public instruction shall give notice of the openic of fact to each county clerk in the state, and shall publish said notice

in the state paper.

the school.

tive to the

of pupils.

Sec. 9. The normal school board shall ordain such rules and reg- Rules relaulations for the admission of pupils to said school as they shall admission deem necessary and proper. Every applicant for admission shall undergo an examination under the direction of the board, and if it shall appear that the applicant is not a person of good moral char acter, or will not make an apt and good teacher, such applicant shall be rejected.

for admis sion to sign declaration

to become

Sec. 10. Any person may be admitted a pupil of said school who Applicants shall pass a satisfactory examination: Provided, That the appli cant shall, before admission, sign a declaration of intention to fol- of intention low the business of teaching primary schools in this state; And teachers. provided further, That pupils may be admitted without signing such declaration of intention, on such terms as the normal school board may prescribe; and that each county shall be entitled to send pupils in the ratio of the representatives to which it may be entitled, not to exceed three times the number of representatives.

of school by

Sec. 11. When the said school shall have commenced a term, it Visitation shall be visited by one of the appointed members of the board of board. education. Visits to said school shall be monthly; each appointed member making a visit once in three months. When a member makes a visit as aforesaid, he shall examine thoroughly into the affairs of the school, and report to the governor and superintendent of public instruction, his views with regard to its success and usefulness, and any other matters he may judge expedient.

Annual re

board.

Sec. 12 The said board of education shall annually make to the legislature, a fall and detailed report of their doings, and of all port of their expenditures, both in cash and land warrants, and the moneys received for tuition, and their opinion with regard to the prospects, progress and usefulness of said school.

Certain pa

chargeable

fees.

Sec. 13. Those pupils who are admitted to the said school as provided by the ninth section of this act, shall not be charged for tuition is not or for the use of any apparatus, or for attendance on any lectures with tuition for one year. Lectures on chemistry, comparative anatomy, astronomy, the mechanic arts, agricultural chemistry, and on any other science, or any branch of literature that the board of education may direct, shall be delivered to those attending said school by

Lectures.

Final examination of

the professors of the university: Provided, The regents shall give their consent thereto.

Sec. 14. As soon as any person has attended said institution twenpupils and ty-two weeks, said person may be examined in the studies required

certificate of

course of

study.

Appropria. tion of land for support

of school.

by the board, and if it shall appear that. said person has received the proper training, and possesses the learning and other qualifications necessary to teach a good common school, said person shall receive the proper certificate from the principal, and board of education, certified by the superintendent of public instruction.

Sec. 15. For the purpose of defraying the expenses of the erection and completion of the buildings proposed by the sixth section of this act, and for the purchase of the necessary apparatus and books for the said institution, and for various other incidental expenses of said school, there is hereby appropriated ten sections of the salt spring lands. The auditor general shall, on the presentation of the certificate of the president of the board of education, countersigned by the governor, draw his warrant on the commissioner of the state land office, not bearing interest, and payable only in salt spring lands, to the holder of such certificate, for the amount therein specified, said lands to be those located as the normal school building lands.

Sec. 16. For the purpose of paying the principal of said normal school and his assistants, the board of education, immediately after their appointment, shall locate fifteen sections of the salt spring lands, and the same shall be denominated "the normal school endowment fund," and shall never be appropriated for any other purpose. They shall also locate the ten sections required by section fifteen, and the same shall be denominated the normal school building fund. The said board of education shall give due notice to the commissioner of the state fand office, that they have located the lands required by this act, and shall file in his office a proper description of said lands.

Sec. 17. The normal school endowment fund shall be under the control of the board of education, and shall be disposed of according to the provisions of this act. The state treasurer shall be treasurer of said board: and all orders or drafts for monies or other funds shall be signed by the president of said board, and be countersigned by the governor.

Sec. 18. The principal and other teachers employed, shall be paid for their services out of the normal school endowment fund,

and from monies received for tuition. The board of education shall be paid for their services, two dollars per day, with warrants drawn on the salt spring lands.

Sec. 19. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after

its passage.

Approved March 28, 1849.

[ No. 139. ]

AN ACT to amend an act entitled an act to extend the time for the collection of taxes in the township of Bellevue in the county of Eaton, approved January 16, 1849.

ed.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Represen- Act amendtatives of the State of Michigan. That section two of an act entitled an act to extend the time for the collection of taxes in the township of Bellevue in the county of Eator, approved January 16, 1849, be and the same is hereby amended by striking out the words "fif• teenth day of March," and inserting the words "sixth day of April." Sec. 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

Approved March 28, 1849.

[No. 140. ]

AN ACT to authorize the re-location of the Northern Wagon Road between the villages of Flint and Corunna.

Surveyors northern

Section 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Michigan, That Lewis S. Tyler, Albert Mil- to re-locate ler and Henry Hunt, be and they are hereby appointed surveyors wagon road. for the purpose of surveying the route or routes, and with power to re-locate, upon the most eligible ground, the northern wagon road from the village of Flint, in the county of Genesee, to the village of Corunna, in the county of Shiawassee. And the said surveyors shall be required to cause the survey of so much of such road as lies within the county of Genesee, to be recorded by the register of deeds of said county in the miscellaneous record; and so much of said road as lies within the county of Shiawassee to be recorded by the register of deeds of said county in like manner, and when so

Compensation of surveyors.

recorded, the said road shall be known as the northern wagon road.

Sec. 2. That said surveyors shall receive for their services a sum not exceeding two dollars per day for the time actually and necessarily employed in the discharge of the Juties devolved upon them by the provisions of this act, payable in internal improvement lands belonging to this state, appropriated by act number two hundred and eighty-five of the session laws of eighteen hundred and forty-eight, at ten shillings per acre, and shall render their accounts for services to the special commissioner having charge of said road, verified by their oaths; and the said special commissioner shall draw his order upon the auditor general in favor of said surveyors, for the proper amount, upon which the auditor general shall issue a land warrant for the same, which shall be receivable at the state land office in payment of lands appropriated by act number two hundred and eighty-five of the session laws of eighteen hundred and forty-eight only; and the said special commissioner having charge of the appropriation, number two hundred and eighty-five, approved April third, eighteen hundred and forty-eight, is hereby authorized to expend five hundred acres of land from and out of the appropriation so made in said act, in the opening and improving the state road between the villages of Flint and Lansing, and on that portion of the road lying between the village of Shiawassee and the Miller settlement, and the said special commissioner is hereby authorized to make a selection of the lands appropriated by said act number two hundred and eightyfive and report the same to the commissioner of the state land office, who shall thereupon reserve the same from sale, issuing no certificate for any parcel thereof, except upon the order of said special commissioner. And the said special commissioner is hereby missioner, authorized to receive contributions from individuals and subscrip No. 285 of tions promising to contribute when called upon for the purpose of said improvement, which said subscriptions the said commissioner is hereby authorized to collect and appropriate in making the improvements contemplated by act number two hundred and eighty-five, approved April third, eighteen hundred and forty-eight, and in case any person shall refuse or neglect to pay his subscription on the order of said special commissioner, said commissioner is hereby authorized to sue for and collect the same in any court having cognizance thereof.

Duties of special com

under act

1848.