ART. 77] SCHOOL HOUSES——SCHOOLS. 1723

county school commissioners shall, from any cause, be unable
to contract with the owner thereof, the board of county school
commissioners 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 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 con-
firm 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.

1888, art. 77, sec. 35. 1872, ch. 377.

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

Ibid. sec. 36. 1872, ch. 377.

40. Every school-house shall be built and furnished accord-
ing to plans and drawings issued from the office of the county-
school commissioners.

Chapter 7. Schools.

Ibid. sec. 37. 1872, ch. 377.

41. The schools under the charge of the board of county
school commissioners for each county shall respectively be
designated school number one, two, three, and so forth, of
their respective election districts.

Ibid. sec. 38. 1872, ch. 377.

42. In every school-house district in each county, estab-
lished as hereinafter provided, there shall be kept for ten
months in each year, if possible, one or more schools, accord-
ing to population, which shall be free to all white youths over
six and under twenty-one years of age.

Ibid, sec 39 1872, ch. 377. 1888, ch. 382. 1898, ch. 221.
1904, ch. 584.

43. In every district school there shall be taught orthography,
reading, writing, subjects for language training, English gram-
mar, geography, arithmetic, history of the United States, good
behavior, the constitution of the United States, constitution and