Visitorshow appointed. Sup't Public Ins. Lectures.. once a signing such declaration of intention on such terms as the board of directors may prescribe; and said board of directors are hereby authorized to make such order as they may deem proper for the separate education of white and colored pupils in said institution, securing to them equal educational advantages. SEC. 10. 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 of said board, to be appointed by the Superintendent of Public Instruction, who shall examine thoroughly into the affairs of the school, and report to the Superintendent their views with regard to its condition, success and usefulness, and any other matters they may judge expedient. Such visitors shall be appointed annually. SEC. 11. It shall be the duty of the Superintendent of Public Instruction, once at least in one year, to visit said Normal School, and he shall annually make to the Legislature a full and detailed report of the doings of the board of directors, and of all their expenditures and the moneys received for tuition, and the prospects, progress and usefulness of said school, including so much of the reports of said visitors as he may deem advisable. SEC. 12. Lectures on chemistry and comparative anatomy, physiology, astronomy, and on any other science, or any branch of literature that the board of directors may direct, may be delivered to those attending the said Normal School, in such manner and on such terms and conditions as the said board may prescribe. SEC. 13. 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, and if it shall appear that said person possesses the learning and other qualifications necessary to teach a good common school, said person shall receive a certificate to that effect from the principal, to be approved by the Superintendent of Public Instruction; and as soon as any person shall have completed the full course of instruction in the State Normal School, he Diploma granted. or she shall receive a diploma, which, when signed by the President of the institution, State Superintendent of Public Instruction, and the board of directors of said school, shall be evidence that the person to whom such diploma is granted is a graduate of the State Normal School, and entitled to all the honors and privileges belonging to such graduates, and such diploma shall serve as a legal certificate of qualification to teach in the common schools of this State. SEC. 14. The board of directors are hereby authorized to make such by-laws and regulations as they may deem proper By-laws. for the well ordering and government of said school and board of directors in the transaction of their business: Provided, the same be not repugnant to the constitution or laws of this State or of the United States: And provided further, that the same may at any time be altered or abrogated by the Legislature. Said board of directors shall have power to transact all necessary business at any meeting, a quorum being present, and meetings may be called in such manner as their by-laws shall prescribe, and a quorum shall consist of a majority of the board. The first meeting may be held at such time and place as may be directed by the State Superintendent of Public Instruction, and no publication of notice thereof shall be necessary, and the attendance of a quorum shall render valid the proceedings of such meeting, and all process against such board shall be served on the president or secretary. office three y'is. SEC. 15. The members of the board of directors, appointed Directors to boll in pursuance of section second of this act, shall hold their office for three years and until their successors are appointed, and any vacancy which may occur in said board by death, removal, resignation or otherwise, shall be filled by appointment by the Governor. tions. SEC. 16. That the board of directors provided for in this act, be and they are hereby authorized and empowered, in the name of the State, to receive by gift, grant or donation, any Grants and donaproperty that may be given, granted or donated to said institution, for the purposes of said institution; but said board of directors shall have no power to make any contract or incur any indebtedness in the organization or control of said institution, either in the name of the State, or for which the State may be made liable. SEC. 17. This act to take effect and be in force from and after its publication in the statute book. Approved, February 16, 1864. THOMAS CARNEY, Governor. Amended. School tax. CHAPTER C. REGULATION AND SUPPORT OF SCHOOLS. AN ACT to amend an act entitled "An act for the regulation and support of common schools," approved May, 1861. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Kansas: SECTION 1. That section thirty-three shall be so amended as to read as follows: "That it shall be the duty of the several school district clerks in this State to make out a certified list of all persons residing within their respective districts liable to pay taxes, and to transmit the same to the county clerk of their respective counties, on or before the first day of July, annually, except in incorporated cities. SEC. 2. That, where a school district tax has been voted, and, from the fault or negligence of any officer, or any other cause, has not been levied and collected in any year, the same shall be added to and collected with the taxes of the year following, and the County Treasurer shall pay over to the treasurers of the respective school districts all taxes he may have collected for the said districts, on the order of the district clerk, countersigned by the director. SEC. 3. It shall be the duty of the County Superintendent Time and place. to designate a particular time and place, in the spring and autumn of each year, for a general examination of teachers. Any teacher failing to be present at such general examination shall, on special examination, pay to the County Superintendent one dollar, on receipt of certificate. School laws--how published. SEC. 4. All laws relating to schools shall be published once in the Kansas Educational Journal, and this shall constitute their publication. Approved, March 1, 1864. THOMAS CARNEY, Governor. CHAPTER CI. SCHOOLS-SUPPLEMENTAL. AN ACT supplemental to an act entitled "An act for the regulation and support of common schools," approved March 2, 1863. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Kansas: SECTION 1. That, whenever there be not public money enough belonging to any school district in this State to support a pullic school the length of time desired, the district board may assess a tuition fee upon each scholar attending said school, to make up said deficiency: Provided, that no tuition fee shall be levied upon the scholars in any of the public schools of this State, in accordance with the provisions of this act, unless the entire amount of one-half of one per cent. for teachers' wages, as required by law, be first assessed upon the taxable property of the said school district. tutes. SEC. 2. The Superintendent of Public Instruction, with the County Superintendent, shall organize and hold a teachers' Teachers' institute, each year, in each Senatorial district in the State: Provided, board shall be furnished free of charge to all the teachers and members of the institute during its session, by the citizens of the place where the institute is held. SEC. 3. This act shall take effect from and after its publication in the Topeka Tribune. Approved, February 29, 1864. THOMAS CARNEY, Governor. I hereby certify the foregoing to be a true copy of the enrolled law on file in my office, and that the same was published in the Topeka Tribune for March 4, 1864. W. W. H. LAWRENCE, School lands. CHAPTER CII. SALE OF SCHOOL LANDS. AN ACT to provide for the sale of the school lands. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Kansas: SECTION 1. That all lands granted by the Congress of the United States for school purposes, known as sections sixteen and thirty-six, together with all such as have been granted in lieu of said sections, may be sold, and such sale shall be regulated by the provisions of this act. SEC. 2. Whenever twenty householders of any organized township in which the land is situated shall petition the superintendent of public schools of such county, to expose to sale any portion or portions of said land, describing the same, he shall, by and with the consent of the County Commissioners of his county, appoint in writing three disinterested householders residing in the county in which said land is situated, who being first duly sworn by an officer authorized to administer Appraisement. oaths, to faithfully perform their duties, shall appraise each legal subdivision of said land separately at its real value, and return their appraisement in writing, signed by them, to the clerk of the county; and in case any parcel of the said lands shall have been improved, the said appraisers shall, in addition to the appraisement of the land, return and file with the same a separate appraisement of the improvements upon the land: Provided, that no appraisement of land for less than three dollars per acre shall be of any validity or entitle any person to the provisions of this act. SEC. 3. The County Clerk shall immediately file the said appointment and appraisement of said appraisers in his office, and record the same in a book kept for that purpose. SEC. 4. Any person claiming that he has heretofore settled upon and improved any portion of said lands, may file in the Probate Court of his county a petition stating that he has heretofore settled upon and improved the same, that the same has been appraised, and the amount of the appraisement, and asking that he be allowed to purchase the same: Provided, |