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§§ 371-377 § 371. As soon as said normal school is prepared to receive pupils the superintendent of public instruction shall give notice of the fact to each county clerk in the territory, and shall publish said notice in a newspaper published in each judicial district.

§ 372. The said board of education shall ordain such rules and regulations for the admission of pupils to said school as they shall deem necessary and proper. Every applicant for admission shall undergo an examination in such manner as shall be prescribed by the board, and if it shall appear that the applicant is not a person of good moral character, or will not make an apt and good teacher, such applicant shall be rejected. The board of education may, in their discretion, require an applicant for admission into said school, other than such as shall, prior to such admission, sign and file with said board a declaration of intention to follow the business of teaching schools in this territory, to pay or secure to be paid such fees or tuition as to said board shall seem reasonable.

§ 373. Any person may be admitted as a pupil of said normal school, who shall pass a satisfactory examination; provided, that the applicant shall, before admission, sign a declaration of intention to follow the business of teaching schools in this territory; and, provided, further, that the pupils may be admitted without signing such declaration of intention, on such terms as the normal school board may require or prescribe; and each county shall be entitled to send pupils in the ratio of the representation in the legislature to which it may be entitled, not to exceed such number as the board may prescribe.

§ 374. 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.

§ 375. 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.

§ 376. 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 learning and other qualifications necessary to teach a good common school, said person shall receive a certificate.

§ 377. 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 the 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.

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