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The BOOKER T. WASHINGTON Papers less number than twenty-five pupils, nor shall the school be taught for a less period than nine months in each year. Sec. c. Be it further enacted, There is appropriated out of the general school revenue, set apart to the colored children, the sum of two thousand dollars, annually, for the maintenance and support of the school; and the apportionment of the general fund for the colored race shall be made to the different counties of this State, after the deduction of the sum of two thousand dollars herein appropriated for the school at Tuskegee. Sec. 3. Be it further enacted, The school shall be under the direction, control and supervision of a board of three commissioners, who shall consist of the following persons, to-wit: Thos. B. Dryer,2 M. B. Swanson,3 and Lewis Adams,4 who may fill any vacancy that may occur in the board of commissioners. The commissioners shall elect one of their number chairman, and they shall report quarterly to the Supenntendent of Education, how many pupils have been in attendance, what branches have been taught, and other facts of interest and importance appertaining to the school. Sec. 4. Be it further enacted'', The chairman of the board of commrssioners shall give bond in double the amount of the appropriation of the school, for the legal and faithful application of the sum am propriated, the bond to be approved by the judge of probate of Macon county, and a certified copy thereof sent to the Superintendent of Education to be filed in his office. Sec. 5. Be it further enacted'', The chairman of the board of commissioners, after having given bond as hereinbefore provided, and the bond shall have been approved as herein provided, and a certified copy thereof filed in the office of Superintendent of Education, shall present to the Superintendent of Education a requisition for the amount herein appropriated; and the Superintendent of Education shall thereupon certify the amount of two thousand dollars to the State Auditor, who shall draw his warrant for the sum on the State Treasurer, payable to the chairman of the board of commissioners, for the maintenance and support of the normal school. Approved February ~ o, ~ 88 ~ . Acts of the General Assembly of Alabama Passed at the Session of 1880-8 (Montgomery, ~ 8 ), 395-96. ~ Representative Arthur L. Brooks of Macon County, a member of the House Committee on Education, introduced House Bill ~65 to appropriate state funds to IO8