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 schools of the State, and shall perform such other duties as shall be required of him by law.

§ 14. BIENNIAL REPORT, WHAT TO CONTAIN.] He shall, on or before the first day of November preceding the biennial session of the Legislative Assembly, make and transmit to the Governor, a report showing:

First. The number of school districts, schools, teachers employed and pupils taught therein, and the attendance of pupils and studies pursued by them.

Second. The financial condition of the schools, their receipts and expenditures, value of school houses and property, cost of tuition and wages of teachers.

Third. The condition, educational and financial, of the normal and higher institutions connected with the school system of the State, and as far as it can be ascertained, of the private schools, academies and colleges in the State.

Fourth. Such general matters, information and recommendations relating to the educational interests of the State as he may deem important.

§ 15. REPORTS TO BE PRINTED.] Two thousand five hundred copies of the report of the State Superintendent shall be printed biennially in the month of December, preceding the session of the Legislative Assembly. Five copies shall be furnished to each of the members of the Legislative Assembly, one copy to each county superintendent of the State, one copy to the president of each school board, two to each State officer, one to each State and Territorial Superintendent, twenty copies shall be filed in the office of the State Superintendent and ten in the State Library. The balance shall be distributed among the various college, university and other libraries of the United States.

§ 16. SALARY-TRAVELING EXPENSES.] He shall receive such annual salary as shall be prescribed by law, to be paid monthly on the warrant of the Auditor of State. He shall also be paid his traveling expenses necessarily incurred in the discharge of his duties, not to exceed six hundred (600) dollars in any one year to be paid monthly on the warrant of the Auditor of the State when he shall have filed with the Auditor an itemized statement of such expenses properly verified.

ARTICLE II.

COUNTY SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS.

§ 17. ELECTION-TERM OF OFFICE.] There shall be elected on the third Tuesday in June in each even numbered year, in each organized county in the State, a county superintendent of schools to serve for two years, from the first Monday in October following his election, and until his successors shall have been elected and qualified; except in those counties in which the last election for county superintendent was held in November, 1888, in which case the present incumbents shall continue in office until the first