ose of the royal college of the Head
Town, and will transmit them to the council of the University.
41. The Committee will also keep a register of its proceedings, and
transmit the same once in every month to the council of the University.
42. The president of this Committee will be the sub-prefect, or, in his
absence, the mayor.
43. The bishops and prefects are members of all the Committees in their
diocese or department; and when present they will have votes above the
presidents.
44. The heads of institutions and masters of boarding-schools
established within the boundaries of cities or towns in which there are
either royal or local colleges, are required to send their boarders as
day-scholars to the classes of the said colleges.
45. The second Ecclesiastical School which has been or may be
established in each department, in virtue of our decree of ..., is
excepted from this obligation: but the said school cannot receive
day-scholars of any description.
TITLE III.
_Of the Normal School._
46. Each University will send, every year, to the Normal School at
Paris, a number of pupils proportioned to the necessities of education.
This number will be regulated by our Royal Council of Public
Instruction.
47. The council of the University will select these pupils from those
who, having finished their courses in rhetoric and philosophy, are
intended, with the consent of their relatives, for public teachers.
48. The pupils sent to the Normal School will remain there three years,
after which they will be examined by our Royal Council of Public
Instruction, who will deliver to them, on approbation, the brevet of
Professor-Substitute.
49. The pupils who have received this brevet, if not summoned by the
rector of other Universities, will return to that to which they
originally belonged, where they will be placed by the rector, and
advanced according to their capacity and services.
50. The head master of the Normal School will hold the same rank, and
exercise the same prerogatives, with the rectors of the Universities.
TITLE IV.
_Of the Royal Council of Public Instruction._
51. Our Royal Council of Public Instruction will be composed of a
president and eleven councillors appointed by us.
52. Two of this number will be selected from the clergy, two from our
State Council, or from the Courts, and the seven others from individuals
who have become eminent for their talents or services in the cau
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