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his [office during life] and good behaviour subject [to impeachment and trial in the Courts.] Each County shall at its annual election for members of Congress, also elect one Visitor, who shall be a man of Classical Education, and shall hold his office for one year. ' It shall be the duty of each visitor to examine once in six months each Academy in his County, in company with a majority of the board of Trustees thereof, and at each examination together with the Teacher and said 'I"rustees, to decide .upon the merits of each scholar, and to give licenses to those who have pursued a course of Instruction to qualify themselves as Teachers of Common Schools, and certificates to those who are found qualified to enter the University and to make a full a report of all things connected with the Academy to the Secre- tary of the Board of Visitants at their semiannual meeting. All of said Visitors with the Chancellor shall' meet once in 6 months, and examine the University in its various Departments, determine the claims of all candidates for the various degrees conferred therein, and make report of the same to the Secretary aforesaid, also of all matters connected with said University. They shall also appoint the Professors of the University ~ prescribe the Course of Instruction to be pursued therein as well as :in all Academies and Schools. A Secretary of the Education funds shall be appointed by the President by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, who shall receive semiannual returns from all Schools Academies, & the University of all matters relating thereto, and present the general statement of the same to the President annually. He shall also with the Secretary of the Treasury & Comptroller form a board to decide on the invest- ment, & . disbursement of the Literary funds, & the fiscal interests of the fund generally. · · The· Collegiate Branch of the University, shall be divided into Classical and Scientific courses, each which shall embrace a course of study for 4 years, & no pupil admitted under the age o,f 12, and they shall receive a Degree of Batchelor of Arts, if found worthy at the completion of the course. The Unversity Department shall be divided into courses of Divii1ity, Law, l\Iedicine, Public Instruction, and political Science, and the Degree of Master of Arts granted in each after a course of 3 years study, and being found worthy on ex- amination. Academies & Schools for males or females may be es.tablished, by the petition of any County, Town or District to the Board of visitors, setting forth the number of &eholars that will be furnished, for at least one year, the amount that can be raised by the Subscribers, and the election of Trus,tees by said Subscribers. On presentation of such petition at the semiannual meeting of the Board they shall decide on the establishment of such Academy or School, and an appropria- tion from the Education funds shall be made for its support, such appropriation being in all cases equal in proportion to the number of scholars, to all Academies and Schools. ' In each Academy, male or female, there shall be a department of instruction specially appropriated to the education of Teachers of Common Schools, and the persons instructed therein shall receive a license to teach, after having pursued a course of study for three
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