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shall be capable to sue and be sued, and to have and use a com-
mon seal, and the same at their pleasure to alter or break, and
to exercise all the powers and privileges hereby granted to or
vested in them; all property, estate and effects, all money, all
funds, all claims, all State donations now vested by law in any
county or school district, any board of school commissioners,
any board of county commissioners, any board of inspectors of
primary schools, any trustee or trustees of primary schools, or
any other body of persons whatsoever, for the use and benefit of
public, primary, free or high schools in the several counties or
tiny of them, are hereby vested in and transferred to the board
of school commissioners of the county; and it shall be the im-
perative duty of all the parties aforesaid to convey, transfer and
pay over all such property, estate and effects, all money, all
funds, all claims, all State donations to the said boards of school
commissioners, except such grant or devise of lands, donations
and bequests of money, or other personal property designed as
or now constituting such permanent school fund as the State
Board of Education may take and hold in accordance with the
provisions of sections six, one hundred and twenty-nine and
one hundred and thirty of this article; if any of the parties
aforesaid shall refuse to comply with the provisions of this
section, the board of school commissioners shall immediately
apply to the judge of the Circuit Court for the writ of mandamus
to compel obedience thereto; provided, nevertheless, that the titles
to all school houses and lots, and all personal effects now held
by any board of school commissioners, any board of inspectors
of primary schools, any board of county commissioners, any
county or school district, shall pass to the board of school com-
missioners without any formal conveyance.

24. There shall be a president of each board of school com-
missioners, who shall be appointed from their number by the
Board of Education. He shall have the general superintendence
of all the schools of the county and of school houses and district
libraries, and he shall perform such other duties as the Board of
Education may from time to time direct; and the board so con-
stituted shall assemble on the second Tuesday of July, eighteen
hundred and sixty-five, for the purpose of organization; they