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FEBRUARY 1883 An Amendment to the Act Establishing Tuskegee Normal School Montgomery, Ala.] February I 6, I 883 To amend ''An act to establish a Normal School for Colored Teachers, at Tuskegee.'' SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Alabama, That ''An act to establish a normal school for colored teachers at Tuskegee,'' approved February both, 188~, be amended so as to read as follows: SEC. I. There shall be established at Tuskegee, in this State, a normal school for the education of colored teachers. Pupils shall be admitted free of charge for tuition in said school, on giving an obligation in writing to teach in the public schools in this State for two years after they become qualified. The school shall not be begun or continued with a less number than twenty-five pupils, nor shall the school be taught for a less period than nine months in each year. SEC. 2. There is hereby appropriated out of the general school revenue set apart for the education of colored children, the sum of three thousand dollars annually, for the maintenance and support of said school; and the apportionment of the general fund for colored children shall be made to the several counties of this State after the deduction of the sum herein appropriated. The said appropriation shall be under the control of the commissioners hereinafter provided for, and shard be applied in such manner as they may deem best, to carry out the purposes of this act. SEC. 3. The school shall be under the direction and control of a board of three commissioners, which shall consist of the following persons, to-wit: George W. Campbell, M. B. Swanson, and Lewis Adams, who shall select one of their number as chairman of the board, and shall have power to fill any vacancy that may occur in the board. In case a majority of the commissioners cannot agree upon a person to be chairman, or a person to fill a vacancy, in the board, then such disagreement shall be certified to the Superintendent of Education for the State, and that office shall forthwith appoint a member of the board to be chairman, or a person to fill the vacancy, as the case may be and the member of the board so appointed as chairman and the person so 215