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Educational Institutions. § 378. Services and all other necessary traveling expenses, as hereinafter provided, incurred by 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 the 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 for each mile necessarily traveled in attending the meetings of the board.

§ 379. 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 land to be sold in quantities not exceeding one hundred and sixty acres to any person at one bid; provided, however, that no part of said land shall be sold for a less sum than three dollars per acre.

§ 380. 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 of a certificate of the board of education, signed by the 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.

§ 381. 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.

§ 382. 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 more than one year from the day first appointed for the sale of said land.

§ 383. The board of education shall hold four regular meetings in each year, viz., during the first week in January, the first week in April, the first week in July, and the first week in October in each year, at which second meeting the officers of the board shall be elected. All meetings of the board shall be held in the village of Springfield, and when practicable be in the normal school building, and all financial matters, allowances of 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 order shall specify the object of the meeting. An adjournment may

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