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14 10. To arrange for a teachers&rsquo; institute in each organized county of the state and act as conductor of the same, appoint some suitable person or persons to act as conductor or instructors. He has general supervision of the institutes and directs the disbursements of money belonging to the institute fund (5189 and Act 112, 1883).

11. He may appoint, in his discretion, boards of visitors to any incorporated institution of learning within the state (Act 103, 1893).

12. He is a member of the State Board of Education (Art. 13, Sec. 9, Mich. Constitution) and the State Geological Survey (5468).

13. He shall perform such other duties as are or shall be required of him by law and, at the expiration of his term of office, shall deliver to his successor all property, books, documents, maps, records, reports, and all other papers belonging to his office, or which may have been received by him for the use of his office.

Including the Superintendent of Public Instruction, this board is composed of four members. The three members of the board other than the superintendent are elected for terms of six years and receive three dollars per day for their actual services, together with necessary traveling and other expenses. At each biennial state election one member is elected.

The board has general care and management of the state normal schools, and its general duties relating normal thereto are prescribed by law (Act 194, 1889, and Act 73, 1895). We give in this chapter only such duties as pertain to the general school system of the state.

1. The board is required by law to prescribe in the state normal schools a course of study intended especially to prepare students for teaching the rural and elementary schools of the state, such course