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 immediately certify such refusal or neglect to the State Superintendent.

§ 30. REPORT TO STATE SUPERINTENDENT.] He shall, on or before the first day of April each year, make and transmit an annual report to the State Superintendent, containing such statistics, items and statements, relative to the schools of the county, as may be required and prescribed by the State Superintendent. Such report shall be made upon and conform to the blanks furnished by the State Superintendent for that purpose. He shall not be paid his salary for the last quarter in his official year until he presents to the county commissioners, the State Superintendent's receipt for such annual report.

§ 31. DUTIES IN RELATION TO APPRAISEMENT OF SCHOOL LANDS--FEES.] He shall perform such duties as appraiser of the school lands in his county, and also in the leasing and sale of such lands, as may be required of him by the Board of University and School Lands. He shall be paid for such services three (3) dollars a day for the time actually employed therein, and five (5) cents a mile for the distance actually and necessarily traveled in the discharge of such duties. He shall make and present to the county commissioners a detailed statement of the time so occupied and the distance so traveled, which when verified by his affidavit, shall be audited and paid out of the county general fund.

§ 32. OFFICE RENT, POSTAGE AND STATIONERY.] The county superintendent may provide for himself a suitable office for the transaction of official business, when not provided therewith by the county commissioners, and said commissioners shall audit and pay his reasonable accounts for the use and furniture of said office. They shall also furnish him with all necessary books, stationery and postage; Provided, That not more than one hundred and twenty-five (125) dollars a year shall be paid by any county for office rent, books, stationery, postage and furniture; Provided, further, That where an office room is furnished by the county it [he] shall not be allowed to exceed more than fifty (50) dollars a year for stationery and postage.

§ 33. SALARY-DEPUTY-TRAVELING EXPENSES.] The salary of the county superintendent shall be as follows: In each county having ten schools or less, two hundred (200) dollars; over ten and under seventy schools, two hundred (200) dollars for the first ten schools, and twelve (12) dollars each for the next sixty schools, and in counties having over seventy schools five (5) dollars additional for each school; Provided, That it shall not exceed $1,200 in any county. In addition thereto he shall receive five (5) cents a mile for the distance actually and necessarily traveled by him in the discharge of his duties. He shall at the end of every three months, make and furnish to the county commissioners an itemized statement of the distance so traveled in the discharge of his duties, which shall be audited and ordered paid by said com-