PUBLIC EDUCATION. 2485

in education at a recognized university including public school adminis-
tration, supervision, and methods of teaching. County boards of educa-
tion may, in their discretion, pay to a county superintendent an annual
salary in excess of the schedule provided in this section, but the State
shall not share in the part payment of said excess. The State Superinten-
dent of Schools may remove any county superintendent of schools ap-
pointed under the provisions of this section or continuing in office under
the provisions of this section, for immorality, misconduct in office, in-
subordination, incompetency, or wilful neglect of duty, upon making
known to him, in writing, the charges against him, and upon giving to
him an opportunity of being heard, in person or by counsel, in his own
defense, upon not less than ten days' notice. In case of vacancy due to any
cause, the county board of education shall fill the vacancy and the appoint-
ment shall be for a full term of four years, and until a successor shall
qualify.

The board of county commissioners of each county shall levy sufficient
funds to meet the salaries provided for in this section; and the salary
of no county superintendent regularly employed at the time this section
(as re-enacted in 1922) goes into effect shall be diminished by reason of
any of its provisions, put every county superintendent shall be entitled to
any increase in salary which may herein be granted at the time this sec-
tion (as re-enacted in 1922) goes into effect.
See secs. 84, 165 and 236.

An. Code, sec. 72A. 1916, ch. 506, sec. 72A.

135. The county superintendent of schools, as the executive officer
of the county board of education, shall see that the laws relating to the
schools, the enacted and published by-laws and the policies of the State
board of education and the rules and regulations and the policies of the
county board of education are carried into effect.

An. Code, sec. 72B. 1916, ch. 506, sec. 72B. 1920, ch. 249, sec. 72B.

136. The County Superintendent of Schools shall explain the true
intent and meaning of the school laws, and of the by-laws of the State
Board of Education. He shall decide, without expense to the parties con-
cerned, all controversies and disputes involving the rules and regulations
of the county board of education and the proper administration of the pub-
lic school system in the county, and his decision shall be final, except that
an appeal may be had to the State Board of Education if taken in writing
within thirty days. The County Superintendent of Schools shall have
authority to administer oaths and to examine under oath, in any part of the
county, witnesses in any matter pertaining to the public schools of the
county, and to cause the examination to be reduced to writing. Any per-
son, who, having been sworn or affirmed by him to tell the truth, and who
wilfully gives false testimony, shall be guilty of perjury.