ART. — .] PUBLIC EDUCATION.

dent of said board, and a person not a member of said
board shall he elected to serve as secretary and treasurer.
2. And school district boards composed of three per-
sons, one of whom shall be the school commissioner of
the election district in which the school house is situate.

CHAPTER II.
How Officers are Designated and Removed.
COUNTY BOARDS.

SEC. 1. The board of county school commissioners
shall be composed of one commissioner for each elec-
tion district, to be elected by the people thereof at each
general election for members of the general assembly ;
to serve for two years from the first day of January
next succeeding said election, and until their successors
shall qualify and for the time intervening from the
passage of this article until the first of January next
succeeding the next general election, said school com-
missioners shall be appointed by the county commis-
sioners of the respective counties.
2. The two school district trustees shall be elected
by the legal voters of the school house district, at such
time and in such manner as hereinafter set forth.

CHAPTER III.
County School Commissioners.

SEC. 1. The schools under the charge of the boards
of county school commissioners for each county, shall
respectively be designated and constitute school dis-
tricts No. 1, No. 2, &c., of the respective election dis-
tricts of such county. The county board shall hold
four sessions a year; each session shall continue not
longer than two days, and each commtssioner shall
receive three dollars per day for each day of his attend-
ance, and shall be paid by the school commissioners out
of the school fund. All the property, estate, effects,
money, funds, claims and state donations now vested
by law in the school authorities of any county for the
use and benefit of public, primary, free or high schools,

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School district
boards.

County boards,
how composed
and elected.

Trustees.

How schools
designated.

Sessions of
county board.

Property, &c.,
vested in
county board