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stitutions shall receive any appropriation from the treasury or the seminary or university fund. 7. Each county within the state shall be entitled to gratuitous instruction for one pupil in said Normal University, and each respective district shall be entitled to gratuitous instruction for a number of pupils equal to the number of representatives in said district, to be chosen in the following manner: The school commissioner (county superintendent) in each county shall receive and register all names of applicants for admission in said Normal University, and shall present the same to the county court, or in counties acting under township organization, to the Board of Supervisors, which county court, or Board of Supervisors, as the case may be, shall, together with the county commissioner, examine all applicants so presented, in such manner as the Board of Education may direct, and the number of such as shall be found to possess the requisite qualifications, such pupils shall be so selected by lot; and in representative districts composed of more than one county, the school commissioner and the county judge or school commissioner and chairman of the Board of Supervisors in counties acting under township organization, as the case may be, of the several counties composing such representative districts, shall meet at the clerk's office of the county court of the oldest county, and from the applicants so presented to the county court or Board of Supervisors, of the several counties represented, and found to possess the requisite qualifications, shall select by lot the number of pupils to which the said district is entitled. The! Board of Education shall have the discretionary power, if any candidate does not sign and file with the Secretary of the Board a declaration that he or she will teach in the public schools within the State, in case that engagements can be secured by reasonable efforts, to require such candidate to provide for the payment of such fees for tuition as the Board may prescribe. H The interest of the university and seminary fund, or such thereof as may be found necessary, shall be, and is hereby appropriated for the maintenance of said Normal University, and shall be paid on the order of the Board of Education from the treasury of the State; but in no case shall any part of the