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public schools of the county, and shall recommend the same for approval
to the county board of education.

An. Cods, sec. 721. 1916, ch. 506, sec. 721.

143. The county superintendent of schools shall prepare courses of
study, subject to the rules and regulations and the courses of study of
the state board of education, for the public schools of the county, and shall
recommend the same for adoption by the county board of education.

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

144. The county superintendent of schools shall prepare lists of such
text-books, supplementary readers, materials of instruction, stationery
and school supplies, school furniture, equipment and apparatus, as are
needed by the schools, and shall recommend the purchase and distribution
of the same by the county board of education.

An. Code, sec. 73. 1916, ch. 506, sec. 73. 1918, ch. 494, sec. 73. 1922, ch. 382, sec. 73.

145. The county superintendent of schools, acting under the rules
and regulations of the county board of education, shall be responsible for
the administration of the office of the county superintendent of schools.
He shall nominate, for appointment by the county board of education, all
the professional, clerical, statistical and stenographic assistants of the
office; he shall recommend their removal for immorality, misconduct in
office, incompetency, insubordination, or wilful neglect of duty, and he
shall see that all regular appointees of the county board of education de-
vote their entire time to their duties. But the qualifications of all ap-
pointees, their tenure and compensation, except as may hereinafter be
provided, shall be determined by the county board of education. The
office of the county superintendent of schools shall, beginning with the
school year 1922-1923, be provided as follows with professional, clerical,
statistical and stenographic assistants; provided that all professional,
clerical, statistical and stenographic assistants holding office at the time
of the enactment of this section shall continue to serve to the end of the
terms for which they were originally appointed, and until their suc-
cessors qualify, unless removed as herein provided; and provided, further,
that they shall be paid, beginning with the school year 1922-1923, on the
basis of the salaries herein specified:

(1) In each county employing less than eighty (80) teachers in the
white elementary schools, there shall be appointed one supervising teacher
or helping teacher; in each county employing eighty (80) but less than
one hundred and twenty (120) teachers in the white elementary schools,
there shall be appointed two supervising teachers or helping teachers; in
each county employing one hundred and twenty (120) but not more than
one hundred and sixty (160) teachers in the white elementary schools,
there shall be appointed three supervising teachers or helping teachers;
in each county employing more than one hundred and sixty (160) teach-
ers in the white elementary schools, there shall be appointed one super-
vising teacher or helping teacher for each additional fifty (50) teachers