Limitations on power to issue life 6. To review on appeal an order revoking a county or city certificate. 1745. The life diploma must be issued to such persons only as have been engaged for ten years in teachdiplomas. ing, and who have received the educational diploma, or who after receiving such educational diploma have held for one year the office of State, City, or School Superintendent. Same, as to educational 1746. State educational diplomas must be issued diplomas. to such persons only as have been employed in teaching for five years. Applications for life diplomas. Examina tion of applicants for diplomas and certificates. Standing to be 1747. Applicants for life diplomas must file with the State Board of Examination certificates of their success in teaching; and the Board, after examination, must present the application to the State Board of Education, with its recommendation. The State Board of Education may recognize the life diplomas of other States of the United States, and issue to the holders thereof life diplomas of this State. 1748. Every applicant for an educational diploma, or for a State certificate of the first or second grade, must be examined by written or printed and oral questions, in algebra, arithmetic, grammar, composition, geography, history of the United States, physiology, natural philosophy, natural history, orthography, defining, penmanship, reading, method of teaching, and vocal music and drawing. 1749. The standing in the class and in each study indorsed on must be indorsed upor the diploma or certificate, or otherwise it is not a valid certificate. certiücates. Certificates may be issued without examina tion, when. 1750. Normal School diplomas from any State Normal School in the United States, and life diplomas granted by the State Board of Examination in any of the United States, must be recognized by the State Board of Examination of this State as primary evidence of fitness for teaching; and the Board may, on application of the holders thereof, issue, without examination, State certificates and fix the grade thereof. When any applicant presents to the State Board of Examination certificates or other evidence of a public nature conclusive of his fitness to teach all the branches of the higher grades, the Board may, by a unanimous vote, grant to such applicant a first grade certificate. 1751. The Board may, without examination, grant Same. State certificates to those who in examinations before County Boards have attained the standard of proficiency prescribed by the State Board of Education. tion of 1752. The Board may for immoral or unprofes- Revocasional conduct or unfitness for teaching revoke any cortilicates diploma or certificate. NOTE.-See revocation of certificates.-Report Sup. and diplomas. of. 1753. The Board may, at the expiration of the Renewal time for which they are granted, renew certificates or diplomas for a like period for which they were originally granted. 1754. The holders of diplomas are eligible to teach in any public school, except in High Schools in which languages other than the English are required to be taught by such teachers. Eligibility holders of to teach of diplomas. 1755. Holders of State certificates are eligible to Same of teach as follows: 1. Those of the first grade, in Grammar Schools; 2. Those of the second, in second grade schools, and as assistants in Grammar Schools, except first and second grades; 3. Those of the third, in Primary Schools. holders of certificates. Fees from applicants for diplomas or 1756. Every applicant for a State diploma or certificate must pay a fee of two dollars, and the amount certificatos. collected must be applied to the support of the State educational journal. Fees from persons receiving life diplomas. Compensation of the Board. 1757. Every person receiving a life diploma must pay to the Board three dollars, to defray the expense of issuing such diploma. 1758. Each of the appointed members of the members of Board shall receive an annual salary of two hundred dollars, payable out of the General Fund on the warrant of the State Controller, indorsed by the Superintendent of Public Instruction. Board, how composed. Chairman. Meetings. ARTICLE XVI. COUNTY BOARDS OF EXAMINATION. SECTION 1768. Board, how composed. 1769. Chairman. 1770. Meetings. 1771. Power to grant certificates. 1772. Certificates, to whom to be issued. 1774. Standing to be indorsed on certificate. 1775. Renewal and revocation of certificates. 1776. Certificates to graduates of Normal School. 1768. Each County Board of Examination is composed of the School Superintendent of such county and not less than three teachers (holding not less than a first grade county certificate, if there are so many in the county) appointed by him. 1769. The School Superintendent is Chairman of the Board. 1770. The County Board must meet and hold exam-inations as follows: commencing on the first Wednesday in the months of December, March, June, and September, and at such other times as the Chairman may direct; the place of meeting must be designated by the Chairman. 1771. The County Board of Examination has Power power to grant certificates of three grades: 1. County certificates, first grade, valid for three years, and authorizing the holder to teach a Grammar School or a school of the first grade in the county; 2. County certificates, second grade, valid for two years, and authorizing the holder to teach a second. grade school in the county; 3. County certificates of the third grade, valid for one year, and authorizing the holder to teach a third grade school in the county; 4. Third grade certificates are granted only to females. 1772. Certificates of the first grade must (except as in this Article otherwise provided) be granted to those only who have passed a satisfactory examination in orthography, defining, reading, penmanship, physiology, natural philosophy, composition, arithmetic, algebra, geography, grammar, history of the United States, natural history, industrial drawing, and the method of teaching. Certificates of second grade must be issued to those only who have passed a satisfactory examination in all of the above subjects except natural philosophy and algebra. to grant certificates. Certifi cates, to whom to be issued. 1773. All examinations in the above named studies Examinamust be conducted partly in writing and in part orally. to be in tion for writing. to be 1774. The standing of each applicant in each Standing study and in the class must be indorsed on the back indorsed on of each certificate, otherwise it is not a valid certificate. 1775. The Board may without examination renew 43-VOL. I. certificate. Renewal and certificates, and may revoke any county certificate for revocation immoral or unprofessional conduct, or for unfitness for of certificates. the profession of teaching. Certificates to graduates NOTE.-See Sec. 1752, ante, and note; see, also, Report Sup. Pub. Inst. for 1871–2, p. 77. 1776. The Board may without examination grant of Normal to a graduate of any Normal School, a first or second grade county certificate. School. Compensation of Board. 1777. Members must each receive for their services a sum not exceeding three dollars per day, in addition to actual traveling expenses, for each quarterly session of the Board, payable out of the unapportioned County School Fund, on the warrant of the School Superintendent. When a Board holds sessions at other times no compensation is allowed from the county; but the Board may charge an examination fee not exceeding two dollars for each applicant. ARTICLE XVII. Must be a Board in each city. How constituted. CITY BOARDS OF EXAMINATION. SECTION 1787. Must be a Board in each city. 1788. How constituted. 1789. Chairman. 1790. Meetings. 1791. General powers. 1792. When certificates may be granted without examina tion. 1793. Eligibility to teach, of holders of city certificates. 1794. Compensation allowed. 1787. In every city or city and county having a Board of Education there must be a Board of Examination. 1788. Each Board of Examination consists of the City and County Superintendents of Schools and of four teachers resident of such city and holders of State |