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County in the State to inspect tlie same and to make an annual report to 

 tlie General Assembly. He is trustee for all property granted or devised 

 for the purposes of education. The State Board of Examiners consists 

 of tlie State Superintendent of Education and four persons appointed by 

 the Governor, with the consent of the Senate. They meet from time to 

 time and constitute an Advisory Board for the Superintendent of Edu- 

 cation. They have a general power in all matters relating to the schools 

 and e.ipe^ially to teachers. They examine persons who apply for appoint- 

 ment as teachers, and issue certificates of their qualifications. In each 

 County a School Commissioner is elected at the general election, whose 

 duty it is to superintend all the sjhools in his county, to report their 

 condition to the State Superintendent and to apportion the school fund 

 for his county. It is the duty of the County Boards of Examiners and 

 of the Boards of Trustees to see that in every school under their care 

 shall be taught, as far as practicable, orthography, reading, writing, 

 arithmetic, geography, English grammar. History of the United States 

 and of this State, the principles of the Constitution and laws of the 

 United States and of this State, morals and good behavior. In each 

 county there is a County Board of Examiners, composed of the County 

 School Commissioners and two other persons appointed by the State 

 Board. They constitute the Advisory Board of the County School Com- 

 missioners. They appoint in each School District in their county three 

 School Trustees; who take the management of the local education of the 

 School District, subject to the supervision of the County Board of Exam- 

 iners. The poll tax is applied to school purposes and the County Treas- 

 urer is required to account for it to the School Commissioners. 



The Depae/tment of Agriculture is administered by a Board of 

 five persons — the Governor, Chairman ex officio, the Master of the State 

 Grange of Patrons of Husbandry, the President of the State Agricultural 

 and Mechanical Society, and two citizens chosen by joint vote of the Gen- 

 eral Assembly for two years. The Commissioner of Agriculture must be 

 an agriculturist, chosen by joint vote of the General A.ssembly for two 

 years. The Board prescribe the duties of the Commissioner; they regu- 

 late the returns of County Agricultural Societies chartered by the State ; 

 issue blanks to County Auditors for collection of agricultural statistics ; 

 investigate all matters relating to agricultural interests, diseases of stock, 

 fish, &c., and to commercial fertilizers, and have control over the phos- 

 l>hate interests of the State. The Commissioner of Agriculture is required 

 to keep a book in which lands for sale may be registered, and also books 

 in which shall be entered the names of persons desiring employment as 

 laborers, a fee of !^1 being charged for such registry, and the books shall 

 be open for inspection free of charge. Pie shall collect specimens of ag- 

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