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CHAP. LXXX.] proper, and to appoint some suitable person to act as librarian, and to take charge of the school apparatus belonging to the district.

. 37. The district board shall have power to admit scholars from adjoining districts, and remove scholars for disorderly conduct.

. 38. The district board in each district shall contract with and hire qualified teachers for and in the name of the district, which contract shall be in writing, and shall specify the wages per week or month, as agreed upon by the parties, and such contract shall be filed in the district clerk's office.

. 39. The district board shall pro the necessary appendages for the school-house, during the time a school is taught therein, and shall keep an accurate account of all expenses thus incurred, and present the same for allowance at any regular district meeting.

. 40. The district schools established under the provisions of this act, shall at all times be equally free and accessible to all the white children resident therein over five and under the age of twenty-one years, subject to such regulations as the district board in each may prescribe.

. 41. In every school district there shall be taught orthography, reading, writing, English grammar, geography, and arithmetic, if desired, during the time the school shall be kept, and such other branches of education as may be determined by the district board.

. 42. If a vacancy should occur in the district board, in any district, the county superintendent shall appoint some suitable person to fill such vacancy.

. 43. All taxes raised and collected in any school district for any of the purposes authorized in this act, shall be assessed on the same kind of property as taxes for county purposes are assessed.

. 44. The clerk of the school district, in making out any tax lists, shall enter therein the names of all persons liable to pay a school-district tax in such district, the amount of personal property to be taxed to each such person, and a description of all taxable real estate in the district, distinguishing