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Board on the recommendation of the Superintendent of Public
Instruction after charges preferred and trial had. The salaries
of all officers, teachers, secretaries, clerks and employees shall
be fixed by said Board, not to exceed in the aggregate the
amount appropriated by ordinance. Whenever the construc-
tion of a new school house or the enlargement and repairs of
an old school house is authorized, the instructions of the Board
of School Commissioners shall be regarded by the Inspector of
Buildings in the preparation of his plans, and no plans shall be
finally adopted without the concurrence of said Board. All
text-books, stationery and furniture required for the public
schools shall be purchased by the said Board after a compli-
ance with all the requirements of sections 14 and 15 of this
Article except the requirement of said section as to the Board
to open and award said contracts.

100. The said Board shall appoint the Principal, Professors,
Tutors and Instructors of the City College, the Principals, Tu-
tors and Instructors of the Polytechnic Institutes, and of the
High Schools. It shall also appoint a Superintendent of Pub-
lic Instruction and one or more Assistant Superintendents of
Public Instruction, one of whom shall be the First Assistant,
and shall act as Superintendent of Public Instruction if that offi-
cer is disabled. The said Superintendents shall all be persons of
education and experience in the management of schools, and
they shall be not less than twenty-five years of age, at the time
of their appointment, and shall discharge the duties herein pre-
scribed and such other duties as the said Board may direct.
In order to secure the continuance of local interest in and over-
sight of the public schools, there shall be appointed annually
by said Board such number of unpaid School Visitors as may
be found requisite. One or more of these Visitors shall be as-
signed to every school, and every Visitor so assigned shall be
a resident or engaged in business within half a mile of the
school to which he or she is assigned, so that the parents and
inhabitants of every neighborhood may have easy access to an
official of the public schools. The said Visitors shall perform
the duties hereinafter prescribed, and such other duties as the
said Board may direct. The said Board may also appoint a
Supervisor of the Heating, Plumbing and Ventilation of