SCHOOLS.

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for teaching primary schools in the county, and in such exam-
ination it shall be the duty of the inspectors aforesaid to in-
quire, and so far as they shall be enabled thereto to ascertain
and inform themselves as to the moral character, sufficiency
and competency of such candidates to teach primary schools,
and if upon such examination they shall believe them to pos-
sess the necessary qualifications as above required, they shall
certify the same in writing under their hands, and deliver such
certificate to the person so examined as aforesaid.

To examine
candidates.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That the boards of trustees, and
clerks of primary schools now constituted in the several school
districts of said county, shall hold their appointments until the
next annual meeting of the taxable inhabitants in said school
districts, which shall take place some time in the month of
December next, and annually thereafter, for the purpose of
electing by ballot the several trustees and clerks required by
the act to which this is a supplement, and it shall be the duty
of the clerks respectively to give at least ten days previous

Election of
trustees snd
clerk.

notice of the time and place of holding such annual meetings
to the taxable inhabitants in their respective school districts,
by advertisement set up at three of the most public places in
such district, and it shall be the duty of the taxable inhabi-
tants at the annual meetings aforesaid, to elect by ballot the
trustees and clerk for their respective school districts, who
shall hold their offices until the annual meeting of such dis-
trict, next following the time of their election, and a new elec-
tion shall have been made ; and in case such offices or any of

Notice of
meeting.

them shall become vacant, by death, resignation, or otherwise,
and such vacancy shall not be supplied at a special or district
meeting, within one month thereafter, the commissioners for
the county are required to supply such vacancy by the ap-
pointment of any suitable person residing in such school
district, where such vacancy shall have occurred.

Vacancy.

SEC. 4. And be it enacted. That it shall be the duty of the
trustees of the several school districts in said county, to make
out an estimate in writing, under their hands at their first
meeting in each and every year, of the sum required for the
purchase of fuel, books and stationery, necessary to supply the
schools whose concerns they are called upon to manage, and
cause return thereof to be made by the clerk of their several
school districts respectively, to the commissioners for the
county, whose duty it shall be to pay to the said trustees, or
their order, out of the school fund of said county, the sum so
required, to be by said trustees applied to the purposes herein
mentioned, and the said trustees shall account annually to the
commissioners for the county, for the faithful application of the
funds so paid over to them.

Estimate of
expense.