EMERSON C. HARRINGTON, GOVERNOR. 1009

21D. The state superintendent of schools shall perform
such other duties as are assigned to him elsewhere in this arti-
cle, or may be assigned to him from time to time by the state
board of education.

CHAPTER 4.

County Board of Education.

22. The county board of education shall hold an annual
meeting each year on the second Tuesday in May, or as near
as possible thereto in May. At this meeting the board shall
elect one of its members to serve as president and one to serve
as vice-president. Other regular meetings shall be held at
least once in each school term, and such special meetings may
be held as the duties and business of the board may require.
The members of the county boards of education shall receive
no salary, but each member shall receive the sum of one hun-
dred dollars annually for traveling and other expenses incident
to attending the meetings and transacting the business of the
board within the county.

23. The county board of education are hereby declared to
be a body politic and corporate by the name and style of the
board of education of.......... county, and by that name

shall have perpetual succession, and shall be capable to sue and
to be sued, to use and to have a common seal, and the same at
their pleasure to alter or break, and to exercise all the powers
and privileges hereby granted to or vested in them.

24. All the property, estate, effects, money, funds, claims
and state donations heretofore vested by law in the public
school authorities of any county, for the benefit of public, pri-
mary, free or high schools, are transferred to and vested in the
county boards of education, and their successors in office. The
county boards of education are authorized, empowered, directed
and required to maintain a uniform and effective system of
public schools throughout their respective counties. Real and
personal estate granted, conveyed, devised or bequeathed for the
use of any particular county or school district shall be held in
trust by the county board of education for the benefit of such
county. or school district, and such grants and bequests shall be
exempt from all State and county taxes. Moneys invested in
trust for the benefit of the public schools of any county or city
shall be exempt from State, county or local tax.

25. The county superintendent of schools shall be the exec-
utive officer, the secretary and treasurer of the county board of