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Educational Institutions. 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 matters they may judge expedient. Such visitors shall be appointed annually.

§ 355. 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 prescribed 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.

§ 356. 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 or drafts for money to be expended under the provisions of this act, such orders or drafts to be drawn by the territorial auditor on certificates of the secretary, countersigned by the president of the board. No such certificates shall be given except upon accounts audited and allowed by the board at their regular meetings.

§ 357. Services and all other necessary traveling expenses, as hereinafter provided, incurred by members of 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 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 meetings of the board.

§ 358. For the purpose of erecting said normal school building, the governor, secretary of state 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, 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 three 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 one person at one bid; provided, however, that no part of said land shall be sold for less than three dollars per acre.

§ 359. The proceeds of said sale shall be deposited with the treasurer as a normal school fund, and shall be drawn therefrom upon a warrant of the auditor, to be issued in pursuance of 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 members of the board of education, as herein authorized, or for necessary incidental expenses in the support and maintenance of said school, or the erection and completion of the normal school building.