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The decrees set aside the following holidays for the school: 

 Sundays, feast days, Ash Wednesday, All Saints' Day, the birth- 

 day anniversaries of the Spanish sovereigns, the day of the 

 patron saint of the superior civil governor, twelve consecutive 

 days beginning from Christmas eve, the three days preceding 

 Lent and those from Holy Wednesday until Easter Sunday. 

 The students were not to leave the institution during any of 

 these days. It was provided that there should be a long vacation 

 of one and one-half months during the period of greatest heat. 

 By a later decree, the vacation period was made to include 

 the months of April and May. 



Regarding punishments, the decrees ran as follows: 



The punishments shall be public censure, deprivation of recreation 

 and walks, banishment and separation from the other students, and if- 

 these are not sufficient the definitive punishment shall be expulsion from 

 the school. Expulsion shall take place because of any contagious disease, 

 for notable laziness and lack of application, for serious lack of respect to 

 the teachers, and for bad conduct or depraved morals. 



CERTIFICATES 



It was provided in the decrees that students of the normal 

 school who successfully completed all the work of the three-year 

 course and passed the prescribed examination with a rating 

 of "excellent" were to receive certificates showing their attain- 

 ments 9 and were to be regarded as eligible to teach in the 

 intermediate schools. Those who completed the work in like 

 manner and passed the examination with a rating of "good" 

 or "fair" were to receive certificates indicating their fitness 

 to teach in the primary schools. Students who completed all 

 of the work but failed of promotion on account of low ratings 

 in the examination were to be offered employment as assistant 

 teachers. 



RESPONSIBILITIES AND PRIVILEGES OF GRADUATES 



Regular resident students who received the benefits of the 

 normal school were to teach in the public school for ten years 

 at stations to which they might be assigned by the superior 

 civil government. Those who left the school of their own 

 accord or were taken from the school by their parents, as well 

 as those who were expelled for lack of application or for bad 

 conduct, were required to repay to the state the amount expended 

 on their education. 



The teachers appointed from the normal school were not to 



9 Facsimiles of certificates are given in the plates. 



