any part of the State, at any time. The information here given has been frequently called for, and is furnished in compliance with what is deemed to be an official duty under the law. The teachers of the State procured the passage of the act, and the whole subject is now left with them.

Following is a statement of the successive examinations held. under the law, the place and time of each, the names of the successful candidates and of the counties in which they then resided, and the dates of their certificates:

FIRST EXAMINATION-Held at Bloomington, July 2d and 3d, 1861.

SECOND EXAMINATION--Held at Bloomington, December 24th and 25th, 1861.

THIRD EXAMINATION-Held at Springfield, August 6th and 7th, 1862.

FOURTH EXAMINATION-Held at Normal, December 19th and 20th, 1865.

Minor L. Seymour...

Total........1.

Ogle.........January 12, 1866..

FIFTH EXAMINATION-Held at Chicago, April 24th and 25th, 1866.

SIXTH EXAMINATION-Held at Mattoon, April 19th and 20th, 1867.

SEVENTH EXAMINATION.-Held at Normal, August 27th and 28th, 1867.

EIGHTH EXAMINATION.-Held at Mendota, March 13th and 14th, 1868.

NINTH EXAMINATION.-Held at Normal, August 11th and 12th, 1868.

Making the number receiving State Certificates upon public examination, during the incumbency of the present State Superintendent

Ladies.....

Gentlemen.

Total.......

14

75

.89

Below is a list of those receiving State Certificates as graduates of State Normal Schools, under the rule formerly in force, but now discontinued-arranged in chronological order, according to date of certificate, with name of the institution where each was graduated:

Harriet M. Case...... Lee

Martha Foster..

Sarah E. Raymond..
Ebenezer D. Harris..

Levi A. Willard

William B. Hull

เ

66

66

66

Sangamon... July 24, 1866.. Michigan State Nor. Univer.
March 16, 1867 New York State Normal Univ.
April 16, 1867. Illinois State Nor. University.

Knox

Kendall.

Warren

Fulton

....

Emma T. Bangs..

Marshall

Lucinda J. Stanard... Coles

May 31, 1867.

June 17, 1867.

Macoupin... Oct. 21, 1867 New York State Normal Univ.
Dec. 16, 1867 Illinois State Nor. University.
Dec. 28, 1867

Of the action of my immediate predecessor, Hon. John P. Brooks, in the matter of State Certificates, I have no official record or data. The following named gentlemen are reported to me, however, as having received State Certificates from Mr. Brooks:

The State Board of Examiners, consisting of five members, by whom the examinations for State Certificates have been conducted and all awards made, has been composed, at different times, of the following named eminent teachers and scholars. They are named in the order of their first appointment and service on the board, so far as known:

WILLIAM M. BAKER, now Professor in the Illinois Industrial University.

Dr. SAMUEL WILLARD, formerly Professor in the State Normal University.

WILLIAM H. WELLS, then Superintendent of Public Schools, of Chicago.

E. C. HEWETT, Professor in the State Normal University.

J. D. Low, then Superintendent of Public Schools, of Springfield, Illinois.

A. M. Gow, now Superintendent of Public Schools, Evansville, Indiana.

JAMES H. BLODGETT, now Principal of Public School, Rockford, Illinois.

WILLARD WOODWAD, then Principal of Jones School, Chicago, Illinois.

JAMES M. Gow, now Superintendent Public Schools, Rock Island, Illinois.

RICHARD EDWARDS, President State Normal University.

J. A. SEWALL, Professor in State Normal University.

ANDREW M. BROOKS, now Superintendent of Public Schools, Springfield, Illinois.

ALBERT STETSON, Professor in the State Normal University.