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CHAP. LXXXI.] county commissioners, for the use of common schools in said county, in a sum to be fixed by the said commissioners. Said bond must be approved by the register of deeds, and filed in his office.

. 3. It shall be the duty of the board of county commissioners to divide the county into a convenient number of into districts, and divide the same when the interests of the inhabitants of the several districts may require it; and shall de scribe and number the school districts of the county, and a copy of the paper or papers containing such desoription shall be delivered by the register of deeds to the county superintendent of public instruction.

. 4. It shall be the duty of the judge of probate, on the first Monday of April in each year, to furnish the county superintendent of public instruction with a statement of the amount of money in the county treasury belonging to the school fund, and he shall pay the same upon the order of the said superintendent.

. 5. It shall be the duty the county superintendent of public instruction, on the second Monday of April in year, or as soon thereafter as he shall receive the statement of the judge of probate, certifying the amount of money in the county treasury, for the use of common schools for the current year, to apportion such amount to the several districts, or parts of districts, within the county, in proportion to the number of white children residing in each, over the age of five, and under the age of twenty-one years, as the same shall appear from the last annual reports of the clerks of the respective districts, and he shall draw bis order on the county treasurer in favor of the several district treasurers for the amount apportioned to each district: Provided, No district shall be entitled to receive any portion of the common-school fund in which a common school has not been taught at least three months during the year.

. 6. He shall visit each school in the county at least once each term, for the purpose of examining into the condition of the school, of ascertaining the text-books used, and of giving such advice as he may deem proper, in reference to