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PUBLIC EDUCATION. [ART. — .

of the state normal school. In all cases where the
trustees, from any cause, refuse or neglect to exercise
their functions and keep in operation the school com-

Power of
county board.

mitted to their care, the board of county school com-
missioners shall be vested with all the rights of the
district trustees, and shall take charge of, and manage
the school until trustees are elected who will act, or
until the incumbents give assurance of a return to
their duty.

Reports of
teachers.

8. It shall be the duty of each teacher to report in
tabular form the condition of his school to the board
of county school commissioners, at each of its quarterly
meetings. These reports shall be filed and preserved
by the board, and used by the president of the board
in making up his annual report to the principal of the
state normal school.

How pupils dis-
tributed.

9. Whenever the number of children attending
school in any school district is greater than one hun-
dred, then the board of county school commissioners
may, with the consent of the trustees, establish schools
of different grades, and determine into which school
each pupil shall be admitted, or the school district may
be divided. And whenever the average attendance in
any school for any two consecutive quarters is less than
ten pupils, then said school may be closed by the board

Proviso.

of county school commissioners; provided, that the
trustees of the district may keep the school open in
part at the expense of the district, and shall receive
their proportion of the school fund for said school,
rating a full school at twenty-five scholars.

Financial state-
ments to be
published.

10. The board of county school commissioners shall
publish annually in all of the papers of the county, a
statement of the moneys received and expended, setting
forth all the financial operations of each district, and if
there be no newspaper within the limits of the county,
they shall publish the same in such other form as may
be determined, and forward a copy to the principal of
the state normal school.