ARTICLE XXII. Name of normal school. Supervision. Treasurer. Repairs. Number of pupils. STATE NORMAL SCHOOL. 214. A state normal school shall be maintained for the purpose of training and educating persons in the science of education and art of teaching. The name and title of said school shall be "The New Jersey State Normal School." Tuition in said school shall be free. 215. The State Board of Education shall have the control and care of the buildings and grounds owned and used by the state for a normal school and of the funds for the support thereof; shall appoint and remove the principal, teachers and other employes and shall fix their salaries; shall purchase and furnish text-books, apparatus and supplies for the use of the pupils; shall prescribe a course of study for the school; shall make rules for its management and shall grant diplomas. 216. The State Board of Education shall appoint some suitable person treasurer of said school and shall fix his salary. All bills and charges for the maintenance of said school, except as hereinafter provided, shall be paid by said treasurer upon the certificate of said board. 217. Said board shall order necessary repairs to the grounds, buildings and furniture of said Normal School, and shall keep said buildings and furniture insured. The State Comptroller shall upon the certificate of said board, draw warrants upon the State Treasurer for the payment of the costs thereof. 218. Each county shall be entitled to at least six times as many pupils in the school as it shall have representatives in the Legislature. In case any county shall not have the full number of pupils to which it shall be entitled, pupils. may be admitted from other counties. Pupils when admitted shall sign a declaration that they intend to teach in the public schools of this state for at least two years imme-diately after being graduated, unless excused temporarily by the State Board of Education, and that if they do not so teach they will refund to the state the cost of their education.. 219. The State Board of Education may maintain a model Model school. school under regular teachers, in which pupils of the Normal School shall have the opportunity to observe and practice approved methods of instruction and discipline. ARTICLE XXIII. NEW JERSEY SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF. 220. A school shall be maintained for the purpose of Name of training and educating deaf children. The name and title of said school shall be "The New Jersey School for the Deaf." Tuition in said school shall be free. 221. The State Board of Education shall have the control Supervision. and care of the buildings and grounds owned and used by the state for a school for the deaf and the funds for the support thereof; shall appoint and remove a superintendent, teachers and other employes and shall fix their salaries; shall purchase furniture, text-books, school apparatus and other supplies; shall make rules and regulations for the government and management of said school and for the admission of pupils thereto. 222. All improvements, additions and repairs to the Maintenance. buildings of said school and the furnishing thereof, shall be by contract, after due notice given and specifications furnished. The State Board of Education shall invite proposals twice in each year, at intervals of six months, for supplying said school with dry goods, wearing apparel, groceries, provisions, vegetables, fuel, illuminating material and all other articles the necessity of which it shall be practicable to determine as being needed for the then ensuing six months. The standard quality of such articles shall be determined by the board, and standard samples of nonperishable articles shall be kept in the office of the superintendent for the inspection of bidders. The inviting of proposals shall be advertised for ten consecutive days in two daily newspapers published in the city of Trenton, which advertisement shall classify the articles which shall be grouped in each bid, and shall also state, as nearly as practicable, the quantity needed, and that said goods are to be delivered during the next ensuing six months as ordered Contract for supplies. Who may be admitted as pupils. Proviso. Application. by said superintendent. Said board shall award the contract to the lowest responsible bidder on each class or group of articles advertised for, and shall require contractors to enter into suitable bonds for the faithful performance of said contracts; but said board shall have the right to reject any and all bids not considered by it to be in the interest of said school. 223. Deaf persons of suitable age and capacity for instruction who shall be legal residents of this state and not over twenty-one years of age, shall be entitled to the privileges of the school for such a period of time, not exceeding fourteen years, as the State Board of Education shall determine; provided, that whenever more persons apply for admission at one time than can be properly accommodated in said school, said board shall so apportion the number received that each county shall be represented therein in the ratio of its deaf population to the total deaf population of tho state. Application for admission into said school shall be made to the State Board of Education by a parent, guardian or friend of a proposed pupil in such manner as said board shall direct, but the board shall require such application to be accompanied by a certificate from the judge of the inferior court of common pleas or the county clerk of the county, the chosen freeholder or clerk of the township, the mayor or other executive officer of the city, borough or other municipality in which the applicant shall reside, setting forth that the applicant is a legal resident of the township, city, borough or other municipality claimed as his or her residence, and the age, circumstances and capacity of such proposed pupil, and the ability or inability of such proposed pupil or of his or her parent or guardian to pay any part of the expense of the care and maintenance of such proposed pupil. Whenever said board shall be satisfied that the resources of any person applying for admission to such school or being a pupil thereat, or those of his or her parent or guardian shall be sufficient to defray either the whole or a part of the expense of maintaining such pupil, said board may require such parent or guardian to pay either the whole or such portion of the annual expense of maintaining such pupil as it shall deem just and equitable. 224. The State Board of Education shall appoint some Treasurer. suitable person treasurer of said school and shall fix his salary. All bills and charges for the maintenance of said school shall be paid by said treasurer upon the certificate of said board. ARTICLE XXIV. MANUAL TRAINING AND INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL FOR COLORED YOUTH. 225. The board of trustees of "The Manual Training and supervision. Industrial School for Colored Youth" (now located at Bordentown) as now constituted is hereby abolished, and said school shall be hereafter conducted and managed by the State Board of Education, which board shall have the full management and control thereof; shall have the care and charge of the buildings and property thereof; the application and expending of the funds provided or appropriated for the support thereof; the appointment and removal of a principal, teachers and other employes; the fixing and paying of their salaries; the power to prescribe the studies and exercises of said school and rules for its management, and for the admission of pupils thereto. Tuition in said school shall be free. pupils. 226. Each county shall be entitled to as many pupils in Number of said school as it shall have representatives in the Legislature, but in case any county shall not have in said school the full number of pupils to which it shall be entitled, pupils may be admitted from other counties. 227. In lieu of all claims, rights and titles that the Appropriation. Manual Training and Industrial School for Colored Youth has or may hereafter have upon the annual appropriation coming to this state from Congress under the provisions of the supplement to the act of Congress of August thirteenth, one thousand eight hundred and ninety, a sum not to exceed five thousand dollars may be annually appropriated for the maintenance of said school out of any money in the state treasury not otherwise appropriated. 228. The State Board of Education shall appoint some Treasurer. suitable person treasurer of said school and shall fix his salary. Appropriation. Proviso. Proviso. Custodian of funds. Additional managers. ⚫ ARTICLE XXV. MANUAL TRAINING. 229. Whenever in any school district there shall have been raised by special tax or by subscription or both a sum not less than five hundred dollars for the establishment in such district of a school or schools for industrial education or manual training, or for the purpose of adding industrial education or manual training to the course of study then pursued in the school or schools of such district, there shall be paid for such purpose to the custodian of the school moneys of said district, on the order of the State Superintendent of Public Instruction, an amount equal to that raised therein as aforesaid, which amount shall be paid by the State Treasurer on the warrant of the State Comptroller. Whenever such school or schools shall have been established in any district, or said industrial education or manual training shall have been added to the course of study in the school or schools of any district, there shall be paid to such district in like manner for the maintenance and support thereof a sum equal to that raised each year in the district for such purpose; provided, that the course of study in industrial education or manual training established under the provisions of this section shall be approved by the State Board of Education; and provided further, that the moneys appropriated by the state as aforesaid to any school district shall not exceed in any one year the sum of five thousand dollars. The custodian of the school moneys of the school district shall be the legal custodian of any and all funds subscribed, appropriated or raised for the purpose of carrying out the course of study contemplated by this section, and he shall keep a separate and distinct account thereof, and shall disburse said moneys on orders signed by the president and district clerk or secretary of the board of education. 230. In case the sum necessary as aforesaid to obtain the state appropriation or any part thereof shall have been raised by private subscription, the board of education of any school district in which there shall have been established a separate school for industrial education or manual training under the provisions of this article, may select |