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and its business demands Said board
shall make all regulations, not incon-
sistent with the provisions of this act,
covering it's meetings and the per-
Torrance of its duties. The treasurer
shall give bonds to such an amount as
said board and state treasurer may
designate.
Sec. 4. Said board shall appoint a
SUPERINTENDENT of education, fix his
salary, and may remove him for cause,
and his term of Office shall be for
three years and until his successor is
appointed and qualified. The term of
Office of the superintendent first so
appointed shall begin December first,
1914. The superintendent elected by
the present session Of the general as
sembly shall be subject to the pro-
visions of this act relating to super
intendent appointed by said board.
Sec. 5. The superintendent of edu-
cation shall devote his whole time to
the duties of the office, shall be the
executive officer of the board of edu-
cation. shall have the care and Gus
tody of the records, files and docu-
ments Of the board, shall have the
powers and assume the duties of the
superintendent of education under the
statutes now in force and shall have
The supervision of all educational
work supported in whole or in part
by the state, except as otherwise pro-
vided, and shall make full reports to
the board, with recommendations for
the Improvement of the system of pub
lie education
Sec 6. Said board shall inspect and
report upon the expenditures of the
state funds appropriated for the use
of schools and colleges in this state,
and shall present to the general as
sembly, on the first day of each bien-
NAL session, a report of its official
acts for the preceding two years, a
statement of the condition Of schools
under its care and the, expenditure of
school moneys, with such suggestion
and recommendations for the i'm
provement of education in this state
as it deems proper, and shall submit
an estimate of the expenses of the
board for the ensuing two years.
Sec. 7. Said board shall employ
such inspectors. clerks, lecturers and
other officers, and make such rules
and regulations covering their duties
and employment as it deems neces-
sary; and may publish and distribute
such bulletins and circulars or period
icals of educational information as
1t deems proper.
Sec. s. Each of the members Of
said board of education shall receive
four dollars day for the time actual
ly spent in attending to the duties
thereof, and shall be paid his actual
expenses incurred in the performance
of his duties.
Sec. 8. Said board shall fix the
annual salary of the superintendent
of education and the allowance for
necessary expenses incurred in the
performance of his official duties,
shall determine the amount that may
be expended for clerical service in his
Office and shall certify the amounts so
designated for salary. expense and
clerical service to the auditor of &C
counts who shall pay the same as
now provided by section 6149 of the
Public Statutes.
Sec. 10. Seven thousand dollars is
hereby appropriated annually. and
such sum shall be appropriated by
said board for summer schools for
elementary teachers, for educational
meetings, for agricultural instruction,
for inspection of high schools, for
payment of services and expenses of
said board, and for such other pur-
poses as said board may direct. and
said board shall certify to the audi
tor of accounts the amounts of such
appropriation as are apportioned for
the various purposes herein stated.
The disbursement of the amounts ap-
portioned for summer schools, educa-
tional meetings and agricultural in.
struction shall be made by the super.
intendent OF education, and the dis.
bursement for high school inspection
and for other purposes shall be made
by caid board and shall be paid on
orders drawn by the auditor of &C.
counts on presentation of proper
vouchers.
Sec. IL. Said board shall, on appli-
cation made to IL by the school board
Of two or more towns to form.or reor
ganize a union for school supervision
appoint time and place for, a hear.
ing and, IL in the judgment of the
said board of education the education.
al interests of such towns can be best
subserved by the formation of the
union, it shall order the school boards
of the various towns which should
form a union, by written notice sent
10 the chairman of each. to meet on
q date and at a place designated by
said board and to organize a joint
committe, In accordance with chapter
AZ of the Public Statutes, and a union
so organized shall be legal to all in
tents and purposes whether or not the
various towns making such applica
ton we're represented at such meet
in by their respective boards But
no union shall be formed as herein
provided unless q majority of the
school directors of the towns inter
ested agree to the formation Of such
union.
Sec -. The board of education
shall make and establish regulations
governing the examination and quail
ification of union superintendent. anC
no person not approved by the boarC
of education shall b eligible for cleo
ton as a union superintendent: and 8
superintendent elected under the pro
visions of this chapter may be re
moved Tor such cause as majority 81
said joint committee. with the ap
proval of the board of education, deem
sufficient
Sec. IS. Section $40 of the Public
Statutes is hereby amended so as Z
read as follows:
Sec. $50. The board of education
shall have all the powers and dutie
formerly granted to the state boar
of education, and shall have full con
troll and management OF the norma