708 MONTGOMERY COUNTY. [ART. 15.

commissioners of the election district with which they may come
in conflict: they shall report said division to the commissioners
of. public schools as soon as practicable, who shall have power to
change or alter any school district for good and sufficient reasons:

after said division shall have been confirmed by said board, the
deeds for lands or school houses shall be recorded by the clerk of
the Circuit Court for Montgomery county.

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92*. The board of district commissioners shall have power, and

they are hereby directed, to contract for the erection of school
houses in their respective election districts and the purchasing or
procuring of sites, and all contracts shall be to the lowest respon-
sible bidder: Provided, however, that no school house shall cost
more than three hundred dollars.

93*. In case any of the district commissioners should fail to act
as such, the judges of the Orphans' Court are hereby directed, at
their first meeting after such refusal, to appoint other competent
citizens from the respective election districts in which said
vacancy may occur.

94*. The said district commissioners shall receive as compen-
sation for their services two dollars for each and every day they
may be engaged in laying off. said election districts into school
districts, and the erecting of school houses thereon, said com-
pensation to be paid by an order of the board of school commis-
sioners of Montgomery county on their treasurer, and taken from
the general school fund of said county.

95*. All funds in the hands of the present treasurer of the free
school fund, and all other funds which may be by any law of this
State applicable to purposes of education in said county, shall be
paid directly to the treasurer of the board of commissioners of
public schools, and the balance necessary for the support of schools
and the building of school houses shall be annually estimated and
determined by the board of commissioners of public schools, who
shall report the same to the county commissioners, and they are
hereby authorized and required to levy annually the sum so esti
mated and reported upon the assessable property of the county,
to be collected in the same manner as other taxes are or may
hereafter be collected: the school tax when collected shall be
paid to the treasurer aforesaid; Provided, the levy for school pur-
poses shall never be less than ten nor more than twenty cents on
thQi one hundred dollars.