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PUBLIC EDUCATION. [ART. — .

Plans of school
houses.

3. Every school house shall be built and furnished
according to plans and drawings issued from the office
of the principal of the state normal school, or accord-
ing to plans issued from the board of county school
commissioners, that proper regard may be had to light
and ventilation, and other matters that conduce to the
comfort, health and good order of the pupils.

Out-buildings.

4. Every school house site must be provided with
suitable out-buildings.

How school
houses to be
used.

5. No school house shall be used for any other than
public school purposes, and school district meetings.

New districts.

6. Contiguous portions of two or more school house
districts may, with the consent of the board of county
school commissioners, combine and form a new school
house district, and when thus formed, the said new
school house district shall be invested with all the
rights and powers hereinbefore set forth as pertaining

Proviso.

to such districts; provided, that the new school house
district thus formed, or said district from which it
may be formed, shall not contain less than thirty-five
legal resident voters.

- CHAPTER V.
School House Sites.

District board
to select sites

SEC. 1. It shall be the duty of the school district
board, with the consent of the board of county school
commissioners, to select a suitable school house site in
each district whenever the necessities of the public
schools demand a change of site or sites already built
upon, or a new school house to be built.

Gift, &c., of
sites.

2. The board of county school commissioners may
receive donations of such sites, or locations, for school
houses, or of houses already built, adapted to school
purposes, or suitably located, or may purchase the
same; but in no case shall any site be built upon,
or any house be occupied, until a good and sufficient

Title.

title shall have been obtained for the same, in the
corporate name of the board of county school com-
missioners.