EMERSON C. HARRINGTON, GOVERNOR. 1011

suitably located and adapted to school purposes, but in no case
shall any site be built upon, or any house be occupied, until a
good and sufficient title has been obtained for the same in the
corporate name of the Board.,

25E. When lands shall be required for the site of a school-
house, or for enlarging a schoolhouse lot, or for playgrounds
or other school purposes, and the county board of education
shall for any cause be unable to contract with the owner or
owners thereof upon what they deem to be a fair valuation
thereof, the county board of education may institute proceed-
ings for the acquisition of such lands, in accordance with
Chapter 463 of the Acts of 1914; but no lot so taken or en-
larged shall exceed, in the whole, five acres, including the
land occupied by the school building.

25F. Schools on or near the dividing line of two counties
shall be free to the children of each county; and the county
board of education of the respective counties shall have power
to provide jointly for the maintenance of said schools.

25G. The county boards of education in every county of
the State shall provide sanitary, hygienic, suitable and conven-
ient water-closets or outhouses for each of the schools under
their official jurisdiction, not less. than two for each, school or
building, when both sexes are in attendance, in their respective
school districts, with separate means of access for each; and
unless placed at a remote distance, one from the other, the ap-
proaches or walks thereto shall be separated by a substantial
close-fence, not less than seven feet high; and it shall be the
duty of the said boards to make provision for keeping the said
water-closets or outhouses in a clean, comfortable, sanitary and
hygienic condition. Neglect or failure on the part of any
county board of education to comply with the provisions of
this section shall constitute cause for the removal of its mem-
bers, as provided in section 6 of this article.

25H. The county board of education shall consolidate
schools wherever in their judgment it is practicable, and ar-
range, when possible without charge to the county, and shall
pay, when necessary, for the transportation of pupils to and
from such consolidated schools.

25 I. The county board of education shall purchase and
distribute, on the written recommendation of the county super-
intendent, text-books, supplementary readers, materials of in-