Article 25. — All the pupils are subject to the same
regulations. The Directors are expressly forbidden to make-



no

any difference in the treatment of the pupils or to charge
■any higher fees than those fixed by the Decree under which
the school was erected.
The State may award bursaries for those pupils whose
families are in such poor circumstances as to justify them.
These bursaries may be divided, and they may be withdrawn
where they are no longer deserved.
No pupil is admitted to a practical school without having
successfully passed an examination affording evidence of his
capacity and the extent of his previous education, and without
a recent medical certificate that he has no infectious disease.
The entrance examinations are held yearly at a date and
place fixed by the Minister.
IV. — MlSCELLANEOTTS.
Article 26. — A delay of five years is allowed for the
remodeUing, so far as possible, of the existing schools, which
do not correspond with the conditions laid down in this
Decree, in default of which these establishments will be
closed.
Article 27. — Members of the staffs actually engaged at
the Practical Schools of Agriculture wiU remain subject to
the rules and regulations in force before the promulgation
■of the present Decree.
Those who may desire to benefit by the advantages of
the present Decree must satisfy the following conditions : —

The Directors must submit to an examination upon titles
as provided in Article 12.
Ill

The professors will only be compelled to undergo the
special examination mentioned in Articles 14 and 15. They
will be exempt from the pedagogic training, which wUl be
replaced by the addition of some pedagogic tests to the
special examination.
