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Educational Institutions. of the United States, and in what regards the rights and duties of citizens; provided, that a tract of land not less than twenty acres, adjacent to the said town of Springfield, be donated and secured to the territory of Dakota fee simple as a site for said normal school, within three months from the taking effect of this amendment; and the governor of the territory is hereby empowered and it is his duty to see that a good and sufficient deed be made to the territory for the same.

§ 367. The said normal school shall be under the direction of a board of education, and shall be governed and supported as hereinafter provided.

§ 368. The board of education are hereby authorized and is made their duty to immediately commence the erection and construction of a suitable building for said normal school upon the ground specified in this act as a site for the same, as soon sufficient appropriation is secured for the erection thereof. They shall have the power to let contracts for the building and completion of said normal school building, and shall have the entire supervision of its construction; provided, that all contracts connected with the erection of said building shall be let to the lowest responsible bidder, after notices of the letting of such contracts shall have been published in at least four of the leading newspapers located in different parts of the territory, for at least thirty days before the letting of said contracts, and the board shall have the power to reject any or all bids.

§ 369. Said board of education shall consist of five members, three of whom shall be appointed by the governor and by and with the consent of the legislative council-one of whom shall hold his office for six years, another for four years, another for two years. The governor shall designate which person shall hold his office for six years, which for four years and which for two years. The territorial treasurer and superintendent of public instruction shall, by virtue of their offices, be members of said board. The territorial treasurer, by virtue of his office, shall be treasurer of said board, and the members thereof shall annually elect from their number a president and secretary. It shall be the duty of the secretary to keep an exact and detailed account of the doings of said board, and he shall make such reports to the legislature as are required by this act; and no member of said board of education shall during his continuance in office as a member of said board, act as agent of any publisher or publishers of school books or school library books, or be or become interested in the publication or sale of such books as agent or otherwise; and the governor of this territory is hereby authorized and required, upon satisfactory evidence being produced to him that any member of said board is employed as such agent or is interested as aforesaid, to remove such member of said board from office and appoint another in his place to fill such vacancy.

§ 370. Said board of education shall have power to 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 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.

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