ART. — .] PUBLIC EDUCATION.

CHAPTER IV.
Duties of the County School Commissioners.

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SEC. 1. The board of county school commissioners
shall meet for organization on the first Tuesday in
January next succeeding their appointment, or as soon
thereafter as may be, and elect a person not a member
of the board, who shall serve as secretary, treasurer

Organization.

and examiner, and notice of such election, signed by
the president of the board, shall be transmitted to the

Examiner.

comptroller; provided, that in counties having more
than eighty-five schools, the board may, at their dis-
cretion, appoint an assistant examiner and fix his

Proviso.

salary. The board shall meet once in every school
term, and at other times if necessary for the transac-
tion of business. Each commissioner shall receive per
day, for each day of his attendance at the board, or on

Meetings.

committees appointed by the board, such pay as is
allowed the county commissioners in the several coun-

Pay.

ties in the state ; provided, that the aggregate amount
paid in one year to commissioners as per diem, or any
other compensation, shall not exceed an average of one
hundred dollars for each commissioner.

Proviso.

2. The board of county school commissioners is
hereby declared to be a body politic and corpo-
rate, by the name and style of the board of county
school commissioners of ———— county, and by that
name shall have perpetual succession, and shall be
capable to sue and be sued, 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.

Board to be a
body corporate.

3. All the property, estate, effects, money, funds,
claims and state donations now vested by law in the
public school authorities of any county, for the use
and benefit of public, primary, free or high schools,
are hereby transferred to and vested in the board of
county school commissioners and their successors in
office.

Property, &c.,
Tested in coun-
ty board.