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14^. If any commissioner or inspector shall not take and
subscribe such oath and transmit the same to the clerk of the
Circuit Court within the time aforesaid, he shall be deemed to
have refused such 'office; and if any person so appointed shall
refuse to serve therein, or shall serve therein before he shall
have taken, and subscribed the aforesaid oath, he shall forfeit
and pay the sum of ten dollars, to be recovered, with costs of
suit, before any justice of the peace by action of debt, a moiety
thereof to the use of the primary schools of the county, and the
other, with costs of suit', to the use of any person, who shall
prosecute for the same.

150. The commissioners of primary schools, or a major part
of them, shall divide the county into a convenient and suitable
number of school districts, and alter and regulate the same as
hereinafter directed, and immediately after the formation or
alteration of the district, describe and number the same, and
deliver the number and description thereof, in writing, to the
clerk of the Circuit Court.

151. The clerk of the Circuit Court shall receive and record
such number and description in the county records without fee
or reward.

152. The said commissioners may alter and change the several
school districts, .with a view to their better arrangement and the
more general convenience of the. people; but no such alteration
or change shall be made before the first day of April 01' after
the first day of June in each year, unless the trustees of the
district to be altered shall assent thereto.

153. The county commissioners shall direct the constables of
the county, or some one or more of them, to notify the com-
missioners and inspectors of their appointment, and the con-
stable or constables shall give such notice accordingly.

154. Whenever any school district shall be formed by the
coramissionera of primary schools, they shall within twenty
days thereafter give notice in writing, describing such district,
and appointing a time and place for the first district meeting,
and shall eet up said notice at the most public places of the
district at least six days before the time of such meeting, •