Board of Visitors may be appointed.

constitute a quorum for the transaction of business, and a less number may adjourn from time to time.

(2203.) SEC. 21. A Board of Visitors, to consist of three persons, shall be appointed biennially at the commencement of the collegiate year, by the Superintendent of Public Instruction. It shall be their duty to make a personal examination into the state and condition of the University in all its departments and branches, once at least in each year, and Their duties and report the result to the Superintendent, suggesting such improvements as they may deem important; which report shall be embodied into the report of the Superintendent.

Report.

Regents and
Visitors to be

penses.

(2204.) SEC. 22. The Regents and Visitors of the University paid their ex shall each receive pay for the actual and necessary expenses incurred by them in the performance of their duties, which shall be paid out of the University interest fund.

Orders on Treas

urer how signed.

Repeal of Chap. 57 of Revised Statutes.

(2205.) SEC. 23. All orders on the Treasurer shall be signed by the Secretary, and countersigned by the President.

(2206.) SEC. 24. Chapter fifty-seven of the Revised Statutes is hereby repealed.

Department of
Natural History

An Act Relative to the Department of Natural History in the University of Michigan.

[Approved May 11, 1846. Laws of 1846, p. 199.]

(2207.) SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of in the University. Representatives of the State of Michigan, That the various specimens of geology, mineralogy, zoology, botany, and all other specimens pertaining to Natural History belonging to the State, and now deposited in the University buildings, be, and the same are hereby transferred to the Board of Regents of the University of Michigan, to be held by said Board of Regents in trust for the use and benefit of the said University and its branches; and the said Board of Regents are hereby authorized to take, have and enjoy, the right, property, possession and control thereof, and make such disposition of the said specimens as may be most beneficial for the interests of the University and its branches aforesaid.

SEC. 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

CHAPTER LXXVI.

OF THE STATE NORMAL SCHOOL.

An Act to Consolidate and Amend the Laws Relative to the Establishment of a State Normal

School.

[Approved March 25, 1850. Laws of 1850, p. 123.]

tracts of Board of firmed.

(2208.) SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Acts and conRepresentatives of the State of Michigan, That all acts done Education conand contracts made by and with the Board of Education under and by virtue of "An Act to establish a State Normal School,"

1849, p. 157. 1849, p. 221.

State Normal School, where established.

Its design.

To be under direction of Board of Education.

for erection of buildings.

approved March twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and fortynine, and the act supplementary thereto, approved March thirty-first, eighteen hundred and forty-nine, be and they are hereby ratified and confirmed.

(2209.) SEC. 2. That a State Normal School be established and continued at Ypsilanti, in the county of Washtenaw, upon the site selected by said Board of Education, the exclusive purposes of which shall be the instruction of persons, both male and female, in the art of teaching, and in all the various branches that pertain to a good common school education. Also to give instruction in the mechanic arts, and in the arts of husbandry and agricultural chemistry; in the fundamental laws of the United States, and in what regards the rights and duties of citizens.

(2210.) SEC. 3. The said Normal School shall be under the direction of a Board of Education, and shall be governed and Board to provide supported as herein provided. Said board shall provide for the erection of suitable buildings on the site selected as soon as the title thereto is vested in them in fee, and the means in their hands for that purpose are sufficient; and they may appoint a suitable person to superintend the erection of said buildings.

Board of Education, and their appointment.

(2211.) SEC. 4. Said Board of Education shall hereafter consist of six members, three of whom shall be appointed by the Governor, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate and House of Representatives in joint Convention. The members of said board heretofore appointed shall hold their offices for the term for which they were designated. At the session of the Legislature for the year eighteen hundred and fifty, and annually thereafter, the vacancies occurring shall be filled as above directed by appointment, the term of which shall be three years. The Governor shall, by appointment, fill any vacancy that may occur when the Legislature is not in session; such appointment to expire at the close of the next Ex-officio Mem-session of the Legislature. The Lieutenant Governor, the State Treasurer, and the Superintendent of Public Instruction, shall, by virtue of their office, be members of said board, and Who to be Secre- 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. The State Treasurer shall, by virtue of his office, be Treasurer of Board may elect said board, and the members thereof shall annually elect one of their number President. And no member of said Board of

bers.

tary and Treas

urer.

President

Education 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 be, or become interested in the publication or sale of any such books as agent or otherwise. And the Governor of this State is hereby Members not to be Agents, etc., authorized and required, upon satisfactory evidence being for School books. produced to him that any member of said board is employed as such agent, or is interested in the manner aforesaid, to remove such member of said board from office, and to appoint another member in his place to fill such vacancy. (a)

of Education.

(2212.) SEC. 5. Said Board of Education shall have power to Powers of Board appoint a Principal and assistant to take charge of said school, 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 the Principal, assistant, or Teachers, and to appoint others in their stead. They shall prescribe the various books to be used in said school, and shall make all the regulations and by-laws necessary for the good government and management of the

same.

School to be es

(2213.) SEC. 6. Said board shall also establish an experi- Experimental mental school in connection with the Normal School, and shall tablished. make all the regulations necessary to govern and support the same, and may, in their discretion, admit pupils free of charge for tuition.

ties of Board to

buildings, etc.,

Agriculture and

(2214.) SEC. 7. Said board shall have power, and it shall be Powers and dutheir duty, from time to time, as the means at their disposal provide grounds, may warrant, to provide suitable grounds and buildings, for instruction in implements of husbandry and mechanical tools, either by Mechanic Arts. purchase or lease, for the purpose of more effectually and experimentally carrying out the provisions of the second section of this act, "To Give Instruction in the Mechanic Arts, and in the Arts of Husbandry any [and] Agricultural Chemistry."

when School

(2215.) SEC. 8. As soon as said Normal School is prepared Notice to be given to receive pupils, the Superintendent of Public Instruction ready for Pupils. shall give notice of the fact to each County Clerk in the State, and shall publish said notice in a newspaper published in each Senatorial district.

(2216.) SEC. 9. The Board of Education shall ordain such

(a) As Amended by Act 180 of 1850, Laws of 1850, p. 180.

lations for admission of Pupils.

Rules and Regu- rules and regulations for the admission of pupils to said school as they shall deem necessary and proper. Every applicant for admission shall undergo an examination in such manner as may be prescribed by the board; and if it shall appear that the applicant is not a person of good moral character, or will not make an apt and good Teacher, such Certain Pupils to applicant shall be rejected. The Board of Education may, in their discretion, require any applicant for admission to said school-other than such as shall, prior to such admission, sign and file with said board a declaration of intention to follow the business of teaching primary schools in this State-to pay, or secure to be paid, such fees for tuition as to said board shall seem reasonable.

pay or secure tuition fees.

Pupils to sign declaration of in

Teachers.

mitted without.

(2217.) SEC. 10. Any person may be admitted a pupil of tention to become said school who shall pass a satisfactory examination: Provided, That the applicant shall, before admission, sign a declaration of intention to follow the business of teaching primary But may be ad- schools in this State: And provided, further, That pupils may be admitted without signing such declaration of intention, on such terms as the Normal School Board may prescribe; and Ratio of Pupils that each county shall be entitled to send pupils in the ratio of the Representatives in the State Legislature to which it may be entitled, not to exceed such number as the board may prescribe.

from each Coun

ty.

Board of Visitors, how appointed.

Superinten dent of Public Instruc

(2218.) SEC. 11. After said school shall have commenced its first term, and at least once in each year thereafter, it shall be visited by three suitable persons, not members, to be appointed by the Board of Education, who shall examine thoroughly into the affairs of the school, and report to the Superintendent of Public Instruction their views with regard to its condition, success and usefulness, and any other matters they may judge expedient. Such Visitors shall be appointed annually.

(2219.) SEC. 12. It shall be the duty of the Superintendent tion to visit of Public Instruction, once at least in each term, to visit said School, and make Report. school; and he shall annually make to the Legislature a full and detailed report of the doings of the Board of Education, and of all their expenditures, and the moneys received for tuition, and the prospects, progress and usefulness of said school, including so much of the reports of said Visitors as he may deem advisable.

Lectures.

(2220.) SEC. 13. Lectures on chemistry, comparative anatomy, astronomy, the mechanic arts, agricultural chemistry, and on