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Educational Institutions. ever, that no part of said land shall be sold for less than three dollars per acre.

§ 342. The proceeds of said sale shall be deposited with the treasurer as a normal school fund, and shall be drawn therefrom upon the warrant of the auditor, to be issued in pursuance to a certificate of the board of education, signed by their president and countersigned by the secretary, that the money is due and payable to the principal of the normal school, or his assistants, or the teachers or officers employed, or the members of the board of education, as herein authorized, or for necessary incidental expenses in the support and maintenance of said school, or for the erection and completion of the normal school building.

§ 343. It shall be the duty of the governor to fill by appointment all vacancies that may occur in said board of said school from neglect of duty.

§ 344. The governor, secretary of state and auditor may adjourn the sale of said lands from time to time as they may deem necessary; provided, that such adjournment shall in no case extend beyond a period of one year from the day first appointed for said sale.

§ 345. The board of education shall hold regular meetings in each year, to wit, during the first week in June and the first week in January in each year, at which first meetings the officers of the board shall be elected. All meetings of the board shall, when practicable, be in the normal school building, and all financial matters, allowances, claims and accounts shall be disposed of at such regular meetings only. Special meetings of the board may be called upon written order of the president of the same, which shall specify the object of the meeting. An adjournment may be had from a regular or special meeting, but the adjournment must in either case state the reason in full of the same. A majority of the board shall constitute a quorum to transact business. A true and faithful journal of their proceedings shall be kept, subject at any time to the inspection of any member of the board.

§ 346. The clerk of the board of education shall on the first day of January of each year transmit to the governor a full report of the expenditures of the same for the previous year, setting forth in full each item and the date thereof.

§ 347. The board of education in their regulations, and the principal in his supervision and government of the schools shall exercise a watchful guardianship over the morals of the pupils at all times during their attendance at said school; but no religious or sectarian tests shall be applied in the selection of teachers, and none be adopted in the school.

§ 348. All necessary expenses arising from the advertising and sale of said lands shall be paid from the funds arising from said sale, by a warrant drawn by the auditor upon the state treasurer; provided, that all accounts for expenses above specified shall first be approved by the superintendent of public instruction.

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