ART. 15.] MONTGOMERY COUNTY. 707

require a majority of the whole board to constitute a quorum for
the transaction of any business. The school commissioner of
each district shall exercise a general supervision over all the
schools in his district, and shall visit and examine into the condi-
tion of the same at least once in each quarter, and report thereon
to each quarterly meeting of the board, in writing.

88*. It shall be,the duty of the board of school commissioners
for Montgomery county to publish annually a. full and complete
statement of the condition of the schools under their charge, the
salaries of teachers, number of pupils in each school in each
school district, cost of books and stationery, with the general and
particular expenses of the system, and such other information as
may be of public interest in connection with said schools.

89*. The said commissioners, or any three of them appointed
by the board, shall constitute a board of examiners, whose duty
it shall be to examine, or cause to be examined in their presence,
all persons offering themselves as teachers, and if they shall be
found qualified' and of good moral character, to give a certificate
to that effect free of charge; and no person shall be employed
without such certificate.

90*. The members of the board of commissioners of public
schools of Montgomery county shall receive the following com-
pensation for their services: president of the board, four dollars,
and each of the other members three dollars, per day for every
day they may.be occupied in attending the meetings of the
board; and the same compensation shall 'be allowed to committees
of the board when in attendance upon such duties as the board
may assign them.

91*. Edward W. Owen and Edwin M. Muncaster for the first
district, Benjamin E. Hughes and Washington Waters for the
second district, Richard W. Williams and Hezekiah W. Trundle
for the third district, Joseph F. Baily and Frederick L. Moore
for the fourth district, and Francis Valdimar and Caleb Stabler
for the fifth district, of Montgomery county, are hereby appointed
district commissioners, who shall have power, and they are hereby
directed, on or before the first day of April, or as soon thereafter
as practicable, to divide their said districts into convenient school
districts; and said board of district commissioners shall divide
said districts without reference to the lines of the election
districts; Provided, they act in conjunction and concur with^he