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PUBLIC INSTRUCTION. [ART. 27.

the same by new appointment; but if it be found impossible to
secure competent persons who will act in this capacity, then the
duties of the board of district school trustees for the particular
district shall devolve upon the board of county school commis-
sioners.

SCHOOLHOUSES AND SITES.

1872, c 377, c 6,
s 1
Schoolhouses
and sites

32. It shall be the duty of the board of county school commis-
sioners to select a suitable schoolhouse site in each district, when-
ever the necessities of the public schools demand a change of site
or sites already built upon, or a new schoolhouse to be built.

1874, c 463, c 6,
s 2
Board of county
school commis-
sioners may re-
ceive donations

33. The board of county school commissioners may receive do-
nations of such sites or locations for schoolhouses, 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 shall have
been obtained for the same, in the corporate name of the board of

Sites.

county school commissioners, in cases where, however, the property
owned by the board of county school commissioners in any school
district, proves unsuited for school purposes, the board is authorized
to sell or lease the same, and to appropriate the amount obtained
by such sale or lease, to the purchase or lease of a proper school-
house at a suitable location for the said district.

1872, c. 377, c 6,
s 3

Sites.

34. When the lands shall be required for the site of a school-
house, or for the enlarging a schoolhouse 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 com-
missioners may apply for a writ of ad quod damnum to the clerk
of the Circuit Court for the county, who shall forthwith issue the

Inquisition to
condemn.

same, and the sheriff shall execute the said writ, and return an in-
quisition describing the land and stating the amount of damages
to be paid to the owner, and the judge of the Circuit Court for the
county may at any time after the return of the 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 ex-
ceed, in the whole, one acre, including the land occupied by the
school-building.

Id s 4.
Costs

35. In all cases when schoolhouse sites are thus purchased or
condemned, the costs thereof shall be paid as other schoolhouse
property is paid for.

Id s 5.
Designs.

3d. Every schoolhouse shall be built and furnished according to
plans and drawing issued from the office of the county school com-
missioners.

SCHOOLS.

Id c 7, s 1
Schools to be
numbered.

37. The schools under the charge of the board of county school
commissioners for each county, shall respectively be designated