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§§ 360-366 § 360. It shall be the duty of the governor to fill by appointment all vacancies that may from any cause occur in the board of education of the territorial normal school, and he may, for neglect of duty, or any violation of the trust reposed, or the arbitrary exercise of the power conferred, remove any member of said board and appoint a suitable person in his stead.

§ 361. 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 the sale of said land.

§ 362. The board of education shall hold four regular meetings in each year, viz., during the first week in April, the first week in July, the first week in October, and the first week in January in each year, at which second meeting the officers of the board shall be elected. All meetings of the board shall be held at Spearfish, and when practicable in the normal school building. 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 the written order of the president of the same, which order shall specify the object of the meeting. 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 reasonable time, to the inspection of any member of the board.

§ 363. 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.

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

§ 365. 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 be first approved by the superintendent of public instruction.

§ 366. A normal school for the territory of Dakota, is established at Springfield, Bon Homme county, territory of Dakota, the exclusive purpose 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 mechanical arts and in husbandry and in agricultural chemistry, in the fundamental laws