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Proceedings and Acts of the General Assembly, 1870
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ODEN BOWIE, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR. 543

Sec. 2. The Board of County School Commis-
sioners may receive donations of such sites, or loca-
tions for school houses or of houses already built,
adapted to school purposes, or suitably located, or
may purchase the same, but in no case shall any
site be built upon, or any house be occupied, until

Donation of
sites.

a good and sufficient title shall have been obtained
for the same, in the corporate name of the Board
of County School Commissioners.

Title.

Sec. 3. When the lands shall be required for the
site of a school house or for enlarging a school
house lot and the Board of County School Com-
missioners shall, from any cause, be unable to con-
tract with the owner thereof, the Board of County
School Commissioners may apply for a writ "ad
quod damnun," to the clerk of the Circuit Court
for the county, who shall forthwith issue the same,
and the Sheriff shall execute the said writ, and
return an inquisition in term or during recess,
hear a motion to confirm such inquisition, on such
notice to the parties as he may direct, and confirm

Condemn if
unable to pur-
chase.

or quash the same; and if he quashes the inquisi-
tion, he .shall order a new one forthwith to be
taken, but no lot so taken or enlarged, shall exceed
in whole one acre, including the land occupied by
the school building.

Quash inquisi-
tion.

Sec. 4. In all cases when school house sites are
thus purchased or condemned, the costs thereof
shall be paid as other school house property is
paid fur.

Costs — how
paid.

Sec. 5. Every school house shall be built and
furnished according to plans and drawings issued
from the office of County School Commissioners,

CHAPTER 7. — Schools.

Build and fur-
nish.

Section 1. The schools under the charge of the
Board of County School Commissioners for each
county, shall respectively be designated School No.
1, 2, 3, &c., of their respective election districts.

Designation.

Sec. 2. In every school house district in each
county, established as hereinafter provided, there
shall be kept for ten mouths in each year, one or
more schools, according to population, which shall
be free to all white youth over six and under
twenty-one years of age.

How long
open.

 

 

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