1174 PUBLIC EDUCATION. [ART. 77.

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 suffi-
cient title shall have been obtained for the same, in the corporate
name of the board of county school commissioners; in cases,
however, where 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 sole or lease to
the purchase or lease of a proper school house at a suitable loca-
tion for the said district.

1872, ch. 377.

34. 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 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
same, and the sheriff shall execute the said writ, and return an
inquisition describing the land and stating the amount of dam-
ages 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 inquisi-
tion, 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 the whole, one acre, including the
land occupied by the school building.

Ibid.

35. In all coses when school-house sites are thus purchased or
condemned, the costs thereof shall be paid as other school-house
property is paid for.

Ibid,

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