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19. He shall furnish from time to time a list of books suitable
for school district libraries, and shall prescribe rules and regu-
lations for the arrangement of such libraries.

20. He shall provide a seal with suitable device for the use of
the office of public instruction, by which copies of papers
deposited or filed therein, and all official acts and decisions may
be authenticated.

21. The State Superintendent shall be allowed the amount
expended for traveling and personal expenses in making official
visits as required by law; also all necessary contingent expenses
for books, postage and stationery, fuel and light, printing of
blanks, and other matters essential to the organization of his
office, and not otherwise provided for in this law, said amounts
to be paid by the State Treasurer quarterly, upon warrant of the
Comptroller; the superintendent to furnish a bill accompanied
with his affidavit, that the money had been expended, but not
to exceed eight hundred dollars per annum.

DISTRICT COMMISSIONERS.

22. On the first Monday in June, eighteen hundred and
sixty-five, the State Board of Education shall appoint, to hold
office four years, such number of School Commissioners in each
county as the State Superintendent may direct. Each commis-
sioner shall have the special charge of such number of school
districts, not less than fifteen, as the State Superintendent may
appoint, which shall constitute and be designated Commissioner
Districts number one, number two, &c.; the annual salary of
each school commissioner, and of each president of every board
of school commissioners, shall be determined by the State board
of education, and paid by the county commissioners as other
officers are paid.

23. The person so appointed and their successors, are hereby
declared to be a body politic and corporate, by the name and
style of the Board of School Commissioners of ———— city or
county, and by that name shall have perpetual succession, and