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VIRGINIA PASSES NORMAL SCHOOL ACT A system of public free shcools for Virginia was established July 11, 1870, by the first Legislature to as- semble after the War between the States. As these schools struggled year after year for a stable footing, it became more and more evident that they must be supplied with specially trained teachers before they could reach the desired efficiency. To make provision for this pressing need, the Legislature at its regular session in March, 1884, passed the following act establishing the Normal School: Be it enacted by the General As- sembly of Virginia: 1. That there shall be established, as herinafter provided, a normal school expressly for the training and education of white female teachers for public schools. 2. The school shall be under the supervision, management and government of W. H. Ruffner, J.L. M. Curry, John B. Minor, R. M. Manly, L. R. Holland, John L. Buchanan, L. A. Michie, F. N. Wat- kins, S. C. Armstrong, W. B. Talia- ferro, George O. Conrad, W. E. Gaines, and W. W. Herbert, as a board of trustees. In case of vacancy, caused by death, resignation, or otherwise, the successor shall be appointed by the Governor. The Superintendent of Public Instruction
Dr. William H. Ruffner shall be ex-officio a member of the board of trustees. 3. Said trustees shall, from time to time, make all needful rules and regulations for the good government and management of the school, to fix regulations for the number and compensation of teachers and others to be employed in the school, and to prescribe the preliminary examination and conditions on which students shall be received and in- structed therein. They may appoint an execu- tive committee, of whom the Superintendent shall be one, for the care, management and government of said school, under the rules and regulations prescribed as aforesaid. The trustees shall annually transmit to the Governor a full account of their proceedings under this act, together with a report of the progress, conditions and prospects of the school. 4. The trustees shall establish said school at Farmville, in the County of Prince Edward: provided said town shall cause to be conveyed to the State of Virginia, by proper deed, the property in said town known as the Farmville Female College; and if the said property is not so conveyed, then the said trustees shall establish said school in such other place as shall convey to the State suitable grounds and buildings for the purpose of said school. 5. Each city of five hundred inhabitants, and each county in the State, shall be entitled to one pupil, and one for each additional representative in the House of Delegates above one, who shall receive gratuitous instruction. The trustees shall prescribe rules for the selection of such pupils and for their examination, and shall require each pupil selected to give satisfactory evidence of an intention to teach in the public schools of the State for at least two years after leaving the said normal school. 6. The sum of five thousand dollars is hereby appropriated to defray the expense of establishing and continuing said school. The money shall be expended for that purpose under the direction of the trustees, upon whose requisition the Governor is hereby authorized to draw his warrant on the treasury. 7. There shall be appropriated annually, out of the treasury of the State, the sum of ten thousand dollars to pay incidental expenses, the salaries of officers and teachers, and to maintain the efficiency of the school, said sum to be paid out of the public free school fund: provided, however, that the Common- wealth will not in any instance be responsible for any debt contracted or expenditure made by the institution in excess of the appropria- tion herin made. 8. The Superintendent of Public Instruction shall render to the Second Auditor an annual account of the expenditures under this act. mMMmimm0
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