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education; to remove, by and with the consent of two-thirds
of the board of education, any county examiner who shall be
guilty of misconduct or inefficiency, except that no examiner
shall be so displaced without the privilege of being heard in
his own defense before said board of education, and in every
way to conserve the interest and promote the efficiency of the
public schools of this State. It shall also be the duty of the
said superintendent of public education to hold a teachers'
institute in each county of the State for five days in each year.

Duties of the County School Commissioners.

1900, ch. 389.

19. The board of county school commissioners is hereby
declared to be a body politic and corporate by the name and
style of the board of county school commissioners of ————
county, and by that name shall have perpetual succession, and
shall be capable to sue and be sued, to use and have a common
seal and the same at their pleasure to alter or break, and to exer-
cise all the powers and privileges hereby granted to or vested in
them; and every county school commissioner and county school
examiners and the assistant examiners shall have power to take
affidavits and administer oaths in all matters pertaining to public
schools, but without charge or fee.

1900, ch. 520.

21. The board of county school commissioners shall have
the general supervision and control of all schools in their respec-
tive counties; they shall build, repair and furnish school-houses;
they shall purchase and distribute text-books, and shall perform
such other duties as may be necessary to secure an efficient
administration of the public-school system, subject to the pro-
visions of this article; provided, that the use of bituminous
coal, except in lump form, is strictly prohibited in all the public
schools in Washington county, except when school rooms are
heated by a furnace, or some other means, which is not applied
within the school room.