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PUBLIC EDUCATION. [ART. — -.

CHAPTER VI.
School Houses and Sites.

County board
to select sites.

SEC. 1. It shall be the duty 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 pur-
poses, or suitably located, or may purchase the same, but
in no case shall any site be built upon, or any house be

Title.

occupied, until a good and sufficient title shall have been
obtained for the same, in the corporate name of the
board of county school commissioners.

Condemnation
for sites.

3. When the lands shall be required for the site of a
school house, or for enlarging a school house lot, and
the board of county school commissioners shall, from
any cause, be unable to contract with the owner thereof,
the board of county school commissioners may apply

Writ Ad quod
damnum.

for a writ ad quod damnum, to the clerk of the cir-
cuit court for the county, who shall forthwith issue the
same, and the sheriff shall execute the said writ, and

Inquisition.

return an inquisition in term or during recess, hear a
motion to confirm such inquisition, on such notice to
the parties as he may direct, and confirm or quash the
same; and if he quashes the inquisition, he shall order
a new one forthwith to be taken, but no lot so taken or
enlarged, shall exceed in whole one acre, including the
laud occupied by the school building.

Cost of sites.

4. In all cases when school house sites are thus pur-
chased or condemned, the costs thereof shall be paid as
other school house property is paid for.

Plan for school
house.

5. Every school house shall be built and furnished
according to plans and drawings issued from the office
of county school commissioners.