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 required to be used in the schools or by the school officers in the State.

§ 5. TEACHERS' CERTIFICATES.] He shall prepare or cause to be prepared all questions to be used in the examination of applications for teacher certificates, prescribe the rules and regulations for conducting all such examinations, and issue or revoke State certificates as provided for in this act.

§ 6. COURSE OF STUDY.] He shall prepare and prescribe a course of study for all the public schools and State Normal Schools and the course of study, training and practice of the professional department of schools designated and supported wholly or in part by the State.

§ 7. RULES FOR TEACHERS' INSTITUTES.] He shall prescribe rules and regulations for the holding of teachers' institutes, and after counseling and advising with county superintendents, shall appoint conductors therefor.

§ 8. COUNSEL WITH COUNTY SUPERINTENDENTS.] He shall counsel with and advise county superintendents upon all matters involving the welfare of the schools; he shall, when requested, give them written answers to all questions concerning the school law. He shall decide all appeals from the decision of the county superintendents, and may for such decisions require affidavits, verified statements or sworn testimony as to the facts in issue.

§ 9. RECORD OF OFFICIAL ACTS.] He shall keep a complete record of all his official acts, and shall file in his office all appeals and papers appertaining thereto.

§ 10. SCHOOL LAWS TO BE PRINTED.] He shall at least once in two years cause to be printed the School Laws of the State, with such notes and decisions thereon as may seem to him advisable, and shall furnish them as they are needed to the school officers in the State.

§ 11. CONFERENCE WITH COUNTY SUPERINTENDENTS.] He shall meet the county superintendents of each judicial district or of two or more districts combined, at such time and place as he shall appoint, giving them due notice of such meeting. The objects of such meeting shall be to accumulate valuable facts relative to schools, to compare views, to discuss principles, to hear discussions and suggestions relative to the examinations and qualifications of teachers, methods of instruction, text books, institutes, visitation of schools and other matters embraced in the public school system.

§ 12. SEAL.] He shall provide and keep a seal, which shall be the official seal of the State Superintendent of Public Instruction, and by which all of his official acts may be authenticated.

§ 13. To ASSIST TEACHERS' INSTITUTES.] He shall, as far as he shall find practicable, attend, hold and assist at teachers' institutes, and aid and encourage generally teachers in qualifying themselves for the successful discharge of their duties; he shall labor faithfully in all practicable ways for the welfare of the public