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§§ 336-341 the legislature to which it may be entitled, not to exceed such number as the board may prescribe.

§ 336. After said normal 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 or auditor their views in regard to its condition, success and usefulness, and any other matter they may judge expedient. Such visitors shall be appointed annually.

§ 337. Lectures in chemistry, comparative anatomy, the mechanical arts, agricultural chemistry and any other science or any other branches of literature that the board of education may direct, may be delivered to those attending such school, in such manner and on such terms and conditions as the board of education may prescribe.

§ 338. As soon as any person has attended said institution twenty-two weeks, said person may be examined in the studies required by the board in such manner as may be required by them, and if it shall appear that such person possesses the learning and other qualifications necessary to teach a good common school, said person shall receive a certificate.

§ 339. All funds appropriated for the use and benefit of said normal school shall be under the direction and control of the board of education, subject to the provisions herein contained. The treasurer of the territory shall pay out of such funds all orders and drafts for money to be expended under the provisions of this act, such orders or drafts to be drawn by the territorial auditor, on certificate of the secretary, countersigned by the president of the board. No such certificate shall be given except upon accounts audited and allowed by the board at their regular meetings.

§ 340. Services and all other necessary traveling expenses, as hereinafter provided, incurred by the board of education in carrying out the provisions of this act, shall be paid on the proper certificate out of any funds belonging to said institution in the hands of the treasurer. Until the erection and completion of the necessary buildings, the principal, assistants, teachers, board of education and other officers employed in said school, shall be paid out of the normal school fund, and from the receipts for tuition after the erection of the necessary buildings. The members of the board of education shall be entitled to three dollars per day and ten cents per mile actually, and necessarily traveled in attending the meetings of the board.

§ 341. For the purpose of erecting said normal school building, the governor, secretary of state or territory and auditor, shall, within six months after the admission of Dakota as a state, or as soon thereafter as the government shall cede to the state of Dakota the school lands lying within her border, set apart for the erection of said normal school building twenty sections of land belonging to the state of Dakota, which lands shall be selected from any lands not otherwise appropriated; and the governor, secretary of state and auditor, may, at their discretion, after advertising four months in at least four newspapers published in the state, sell said lands to the highest bidder at public sale; said lands to be sold in quantities not exceeding one hundred and sixty acres to any person at one bid; provided, how-

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