Year: 1867

months during the year ending the date of such
report, and that all school moneys received dur
ing that year from the income of the school
fund, have been applied to the payment of the
wages of legally qualified teachern
Sec g. Section 81 of the chapter aforesaid is
hereby amended so as to read as follows: .tSec-
ton 81. The laws regulating the election of and
canvassing the votes for other county officers,
shall apply to the election of county superinten-
dents. A county superintendent may at any
time vacate his office, by filing his resignation
with the clerk of the board of supervisors of
his county His removal from the county or
his acceptance of the Office of county supervisor
shall vacate his Office"


Sec. 10. section 80 of the chapter aforesaid
is hereby amended as to read as follows
''section 80. The clerk of the board of super
visCrs, as soon as he has official OF other notice
of the existence of vacancy in the Office of
county superintendent, shall give notice thereof
| to the superintendent of public instruction. who
| shall appoint county superintendent to fill
such vacancy, and the person so appointed
shall hold his Office until the first day of Jam
uary succeeding the general election next oc-
curing after such appointment is made.o
| Sec. IL. section 81 of said chapter is hereby
amended, so as to read as follows 'ssec 10.
Any person or persons petitioning for the re-
moval from office OF any county superintendent
| of schools, shall cause certified copy Of such
| petition, together with full statement of all
charges preferred against him, to be served
upon such superintendent at least thirty days
prior to the hearing before the Judge Of the cir
cult court. No county superintendent shall act
as an agent for any author, publisher or book
| seller or reveive any fee or reward for acting
as such agent, and violation of this provision
| by any county superintendent shall subject
| him to removal from Office.'


! Sec. 10. section 81 of the chapter aforesaid
| is hereby amended so as to read as follows
'section 90. Every county superintendent
shall have power, and it shall be his dcty:
First. Te examine and license teachers.
and to annul certificates as hereinafter pro-
vided.


| Second. To visit and examine all the
schools and school districts within his iurisdic-
tion as often each year as shall be practicable:
to inquire into all matters relating to the man
agement, the course of study and mode of in
struction, and the text books, and discipline of
such schools, and the condition of the school
houses, sites, outbuildings and appendages and
of the district generally to advise with and
counsel the district boards in relation to their
duties, and particularly in relation to the con-
| struction warming and ventilation of school
| houses, and the improving and adjoining of the
school grounds connected herewith and to re-
/ commend to school officer. and teachers the
proper studies, disciple and management of the
schools


Third. To direct, after proper examination,
the district board to make any alteration and
repairs which shall in his opinion be necessary
to the health, comfort or progress Of the pupils
and to abate any nuisance in Or upon the prem
lses = proridiag, the same can be done at an
expense not exceeding twenty-five dollars


Fourth To make an order in concurrence
with the chairman of the board Of supervisors
| of the town in which any school house is situa-
ted which is unfit for school purposes, recitine
the reasons, if they deem it unfit for further
use and not worth repairing, and to deliver the
order to the clerk of the district in which such
building is situated, and to transmit one copy
of said order to the clerk of the town. and
another to the superintendent of public instruc-
ton and such order shall take effect from and
after the date mentioned therein. unless for
causes shown within thirty days after said
order is delivered to the district clerk it shall
be overruled by the superintendent of public
instruction. and from the time tie said order
shall take effect the district shall not be enti-
tied to share in any appropriation of the in
come of the school fund for any school kept in
said building SO declared unfit for school
purposes.


" Fifth. To examine any charge affecting the
moral character or ability to teach of any
teacher within his county or district first Civ





charge, and all opportunity to defend himself
therefrom and if he finds the charge sustained
to annul his certificate, by whomsoever grant
ed, and if the teacher so declared unfit to
teach, holds certificate from the superinten.
dent of public instruction, or diploma of a
state normal school, then to notify the state
superintendent of such annulment without de-
lay.


Sixth. To report annually to the board Of
h1S fv f,n Il
., prospects of the schools under his supervision
to receive from the town, city or village clerks
abstracts of the reports of the several district
clerks, and to transmit the same as REQUIRED by
law, to the state superintendent, as also annu.
ally, before the first day of May, the name and
post Office address of each town clerk of his
county or district, and to report from time to
time such other facts relating to education as
the state superintendent may require or the
laws may prescribe.


" Seventh To organize and conduct at least
one institute for the instruction Of teachers in
each year, and to advise in all questions arising
under the operations of the school laws in his
county or district"


Sec 49, Section 95 of the aforesaid chapter
&. is hereby amended so as to read rs follows
section 95. The compensation Of the county
superintendent of schools shall be fixed by the
county board of supervisors, and shall be paid
quarterly in cash, by the county propidsd that



for counties and districts containing more than
ten thousand inhabitants, according to the last
preceding census, the compensation shall not
be less than eight hundred dollars per annum
J and for counties and districts containing more
than FIVE thousand inhabitants, it shall not be
less than five hundred dollars per annum ana
prorided further, that the board of supervisors
shall allow for stationery, postage and printing
such amount as the county superintendent shall
certify to be actually necessary, not exceeding
one hundred dollars in counties and districts
containing less than five thousand inhabitants
and two hundred dollars in counties and dis
tricts containing less than ten thousand iuhabi
tants and more than FIVE thousandr


Sec. Ia. All acts and parts of acts incon
sistent with the provisions of this act, arr
hereby repealed.


Sec. Is. This act shall take effect and be il
: force from and after its passage.
) Approved April 10, 1867.