4. The board of county school commissioners shall ;
keep an account of the books and stationery delivered
to the several schools in their respective districts, and
file their receipts for the same.

CHAPTER XI.

County Examiner.

SEC. 1. It shall be the duty of the county examiner
to examine candidates for the profession of teaching, in
the presence of at least one member of the board of
county school commissioners, or one or more of the
district school commissioners, and to give to such per-

Account of
books.

Duty of county
examined

ART. — .] PUBLIC EDUCATION.

CHAPTER X.
Text Books.

139

SEC. 1. School books shall contain nothing of a sec-
tarian or partisan character.

Sectarian or
partisan books.

2. Each board of county school commissioners shall
adopt and purchase the text books for their respective
counties, but no change shall be made in the text books
at present in use or hereafter introduced without hav-
ing examined such as may be recommended by the
board of state school commissioners, whose duty is
hereby made to present a list of books to the several
boards of county school commissioners, with their writ-
ten reasons for such recommendation.

Purchase of
books.

3. The board of county school commissioners shall
authorize the delivery of books and stationery to the
various schools in the county, under such rules and
regulations as they may adopt. No pupil shall be

Books and sta-
tionery.

required to pay more than one dollar quarterly for
use of said books and stationery, but any pupil, on
account of pecuniary inability, may be exempted from
payment by the board of district school commission-

Payment for
books.

ers; provided, nevertheless, that parents or pupils may
purchase their own books whenever they may think
proper.

Proviso.