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272. They may at any time suspend or expel a pupil for im-
morality, continued insubordination, or other improper conduct.

273. They shall admit no child into any of their schools under
the age of five or over the age of seventeen years, unless in cases
where, in their judgment, this rule ought to be dispensed with.'

274. They shall oblige the teachers in their respective districts,
or the principal, if there be more than one employed, to keep a
register of the names and ages of all the scholars, distinguishing
the sex, who have from time to time attended the schools.

275. They shall, on or about the first day of December, in each
year, furnish the president of the board of school commissioners
with a atatement of the number of pupils, males and females,
that have attended the schools in their respective districts during
the year ending on the last day of November, and with the
number of children in their respective districts entitled to a
portion of the general school fund for the ensuing year, and all
items of expense of each school, teachers' salaries, books, sta-
tionery, fuel, &c., with such observations relative to the practical
operations of the system as they may think proper.

276*. The children attending public schools in Washington
county shall be admitted free of charge for nine months in each
and every year.

277. Each school commissioner shall have the power to sell
any school house or lot in the election district for which he shall
be appointed, and give a good and valid deed for the same, when-
ever the public interest of the school district may require it;

Provided, such sale be authorized by the legal voters of said dis-
trict; and the trustees shall appropriate the proceeds of such sale
to the purchase of another lot or the building of another school
house, or make such other disposition of it as the legal voters of
said school district may determine; but the trustees shall give
notice to the legal voters of the school district of the time and
place of meeting for the determination of the matter.

278. Every person elected as a school commissioner or as a
trustee, before entering upon the duties of his office, shall take
and subscribe before some justice of the peace the following
oath: "I, A.B., do swear that I will faithfully and to the best
of my judgment and ability, without partiality or prejudice,