LAWS OF WASHINGTON RRITORY. Enacted at the Ninth Biennial Session, held in Olympia, the capital of Washington Territory, commencing Morday, October 1, 1883, and ending Thursday, November 29, 1883. WILLIAM A. NEWELL, Governor; SEWELL TRUAX, President of the Council; E. C. FERGUSON, Speaker of the House of Representatives. AN ACT TO AMEND THE COMMON SCHOOL LAW OF THE TERRITORY OF WASHINGTON. TITLE I. SUPERINTENDENT OF COMMON SCHOOLS. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Washington: That a superintendent of public instruction shall be appointed by the governor, by and with the advice and consent of the legislative council, and shall enter upon the duties of his office on or before the first Monday in January next following his appointment, and shall hold his office for the term of two years or until his successor is appointed and qualified, and shall execute a bond in the penal sum of two thousand dollars, with two good and sufficient sureties to be approved by the territorial auditor conditioned upon the faithful discharge of his or her official duties. SEC. 2. The superintendent shall have general supervision of public instruction, especially of the county and district school officers and the public schools of the territory, and shall report to the governor biennially on or before the first day of September of the years in which the regular sessions of the legislature are held. The governor shall trasinit said report to the legislature, and whenever it is ordered printed, a sufficient number of copies shall be delivered to the superin |