ART. — .] PUBLIC EDUCATION.

CHAPTER V.
Duties of the District School Commissioners.

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SEC. 1. The board of district school commissioners
shall have the care of the houses and lands connected
therewith, intended for school purposes ; also of the
furniture, apparatus and other school property. They
shall attend to all repairs, and charge the cost among
the incidental expenses of the school, to be paid out
of the tax levied upon the assessable property of the

Powers and du-
tie of district
board.

county as herein provided for; provided, that when
repairs are to be paid for out of a county school tax,
the amount to be expended for said repairs shall be
determined by the board of county school commis-
sioners before the repairs are made. The board shall
employ a teacher from among those persons who hold
the certificate required by this law ; they shall exercise
a general supervision over their respective schools and
visit them frequently, and shall cause instruction to be
given for ten months in the year.

Proviso.

2. The board of district school commissioners shall
see that every school house site is provided with suit-
able outbuildings.

Outbuildings.

3. No school house shall be used for any other pur-
pose than public school purposes and school district
meetings, unless by consent of the board of county
school commissioners or a majority of them.

No school
house tobe
used for other
purposes.

4. 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

New districts
may be formed.

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.

Proviso.