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Rh to provide not less than twenty weeks of special professional instruction.

In addition to the course mentioned above, the board is required to maintain a fully equipped training school as a school of observation and practice.

2. Diplomas for five years are now granted by the State Board of Education upon the recommendation of principal and faculty of the school, and diplomas for life are granted to those who have completed a full course of not less than four years study. Diplomas granted by the board are legal certificates to teach in all the schools of the state, when recorded with the legal examining officer of the county or city where the holder thereof proposes to teach.

3. The board also holds two examinations each year at Lansing, to examine candidates for state certificates. These examinations are usually held during the last weeks of July and December. State certificates are valid during life.

4. The board may indorse state certificates granted in other states, if it be shown that the examinations required or courses of study pursued are fully equal to the requirements of this state (Act 73, 1895).

5. It may grant certificates to graduates of colleges of the state whose courses of study have been approved by said board, according to the condition prescribed in Act No. 136, laws of 1893.

6. It may examine and approve text books in physiology, before such text books are legally adopted for use in public schools of the state. (Act 165, 1887; Act 147, 1889).

This board is composed of three persons, the county commissioner of schools and two examiners, each chosen for terms of two years,