between the ages of five and twenty years, according to the census taken as aforesaid;

Second. The number attending school during the year under five, and also the number over twenty years of age;

Third. The whole number that have attended school during

the year;

Fourth. The length of time the school has been taught during the year by a qualified teacher, the name of each teacher, the length of time kept by each, and the wages paid to each;

Fifth. The average length of time scholars between five and twenty years of age have attended school during the year;

Sixth. The amount of money received from the township treasurer, apportioned to the district by the township clerk; Seventh. The amount of money raised by the district, and the purposes for which it was raised;

Eighth. The kinds of books used in the school;

Ninth. Such other facts and statistics, in regard to schools and the subject of education, as the Superintendent of Public Instruction shall direct.

(2299.) Sec. 56. Said board shall, between the first Monday in September and the second Monday of October, in each year, make out and deliver to the supervisor of each township in which any part of the district is situated, a report in writing under their hands, of all taxes voted by the district during the preceding year, and of all taxes which said board is authorized to impose, to be levied on the taxable property of the district.

(2300.) Sec. 57. The district board may purchase, at the expense of the district, such school books as may be necessary for the use of children admitted by them to the district school free of charge, and they shall include the amount of such purchases, and the amount which would have been payable for fuel and teachers' wages by persons exempted from the payment thereof, together with any sums on the district rate bills which could not be collected, in their report to the supervisor or su pervisors, to be assessed as aforesaid. They shall also prescribe the text books to be used in the school; but text books,

once adopted, shall not be changed within two years, except by the consent of a majority of the voters at some regular meeting.

(2301) Sec. 58. Said board shall exempt from the payment of teachers' wages, and from providing fuel for the use of the district, all such persons residing therein as in their opinion ought to be exempted and shall certify such exemptions to the director, and the children of such persons shall be admitted to the district school free of charge during the time of such exemption. Said board may also admit to the district school nonresident pupils, and may determine the rates of tuition of such pupils, and collect the same; and they may authorize or order the suspension or expulsion from the school, whenever, in their judgment, the interests of the school demand it of any pupil guilty of gross misdemeanor or persistent disobedience,

(2302) Sec 59 They shall purchase or lease a site for a school-house, as shall have been designated by the district, in the corporate name thereof, and shall build hire or purchase such school-house out of the fund provided for that purpose, and make sale of any site or other property of the district, when lawfully directed by the qualified voters at an annual or special meeting: Provided, That the district shall not in any case build a stone or brick school house upon any site, without having first obtained a title in fee to the same, or a lease for ninety-nine years; and also that they shall not in any case build a frame school-house on any site for which they have not a title in fee, or a lease for fifty years, without securing the privilege of removing the said school house when lawfully directed so to do by the qualified voters of the district, at any annual or spe. cial meeting: Provided also, That the qualified voters of the district may appoint a building committee, to take charge of the work of building such school-house.

(2318) Sec. 75. When a new district is formed, in whole or in part from one or more districts possessed of a school house, or entitled to other property, the inspectors, at the time of

forming such new district, or as soon thereafter as may be, shall ascertain and determine the amount justly due to such new district from any district out of which it may have been in whole or in part formed, as the proportion of such new dis trict of the value of the school-house and other property belonging to the former district, at the time of such division; and whenever, by the division of any district, the school-house or site thereof shall no longer be conveniently located for school purposes, and shall not be desired for use by the new district in which it may be situated, the school inspectors of the township in which such school-house and site shall be located, may advertise and sell the same, and apportion the proceeds of such sale, and also any moneys belonging to the district thus divided, among the several districts erected in whole or in part from the divided district.

(2325.) Sec. 82. The director of every district formed as provided in the preceding section, shall also report to the clerk of each township in which the district is in part situated, the number of children between the ages of five and twenty years in that part of the district lying in such township; and books shall be drawn from the library of each township for the use of such district; but the district shall have access to but one such library at the same time, and the said inspectors shall establish the order in which books shall be drawn from each township library: Provided, That no books shall be drawn from any township library by any district having a district library; but such district shall be entitled to its just proportion of books 'from the library of any township in which it is partly situated, to be added to the district library, and also to its equitable share of any library moneys raised or received by any such township.

(2340.) Sec. 97. On receiving notice from the county treas urer of the amount of school moneys apportioned to his township, he shall apportion the same amongst the several districts therein, entitled to the same, in proportion to the number of children in each between the ages of five and twenty years, as

the same shall be shown by the annual report of the director of each district for the school year last closed.

(2356.) Sec. 114. A township library shall be maintained in each organized township in this State, which shall be the prop erty of the township; and the parents and guardians of all children therein, between the ages of five and twenty years, shall be permitted to use books from such library without charge, being responsible to the township for the safe return thereof, and for any injury done thereto, according to such rules and regulations as are or may be established by the board of school inspectors of the township: Provided, That no township in which the township library has been distributed into district libraries, shall be required to maintain thereafter a township library: And provided also, That the school inspectors of any township may equitably divide the township library into district libraries, whenever requested by a vote of a majority of the districts in the township.

(2358.) Sec. 116. The clear proceeds of all fines for any breach of the penal laws of this State, and for penalties, or upon any recognizances in criminal proceedings, and all equivalents for exemption from military duty, when collected in any county, and paid into the county treasury, together with all moneys heretofore collected and paid into said treasury on account of such fines or equivalents, and not already apportioned, shall be apportioned by the county treasurer, between the first and tenth days of April in each year, among the several townships in the county, according to the number of children therein between the ages of five and twenty years, as shown by the last annual statement of the county clerk on file in his office, which money shall be applied to the purchase of books for the township or district libraries, and for no other purpose.

(2361.) Sec. 119. The interest of the primary school fund shall be distributed on the first Monday of May, or as soon thereafter as is practicable, in each year, for the support of primary schools in the several townships in this State, from

which reports have been received by the Superintendent of Public Instruction, in accordance with the provisions of this chapter, for the school year last closed, in proportion to the number of children in such townships between the ages of five and twenty years; and the same shall be payable on the warrant of the Auditor General, to the treasurers of the several Counties.

(2377.) Sec. 136. The township board of each township shall have power, and is hereby required to remove from office, upon satisfactory proof, after at least five days notice to the party implicated, any district officer or school inspector who shall have illegally used or disposed of any of the public moneys entrusted to his charge, or who shall persistently, and without sufficient cause, refuse or neglect to discharge any one of the duties of his office.

Sec. 147. Any school district containing more than one hundred children between the ages of five and twenty years, may elect a district board consisting of six trustees: Provided, The district shall so determine at an annual meeting, by a vote of two-thirds of the legal voters attending such meeting: Provided also, That the intention to take such vote shall be expressed in the notice of such annual m eting. When such a change in the district board shall have been voted, the voters at such annual meeting shall proceed immediately to elect from the qual ified voters of the district, two trustees for a term of one year, two for a term of two years, and two for a term of three years; and annually thereafter, two trustees shall be elected, whose terms of office shall be three years, and until their successors shall have been elected, and filed their acceptances.

Sec. 148. Within ten days after their election, such trustees shall file with the director a written acceptance of the office to which they have been elected, and shall annually elect from their own number a moderator, a director and assessor, and for cause may remove the same, and may appoint others of their