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 THIRTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 86. 1856. 37 with necessary fuel, books, stationery, and appendages; and it shall be and employ the further duty of the trustees aforesaid to agree with and employ all °“°h°"‘ teachers to be employed in such district: Provided, That no teachers shall be employed by them who shall not have received the certificate Certitied temp; of approbation from the commissioners of primary schools aforesaid, as :‘;p,‘;;1g'd_°° hereinbefore provided; and it shall be the further duty of the trustees to pay the salaries of teachers out of the apportionment of the school fund lssimss, new for their respective districts, which shall come into their hands through P¤·¤d· the commissioners aforesaid, so far as the same shall be sufficient for that ur ose. P Slice. 15. And be it furt}zer enacted, That before the trustees of any Oath of trusschool district shall enter upon the duties of their office, they shall each “°" take an oath or make adirmation before a justice of the peace of said county, or one of the commissioners of primary schools, who is hereby authorized to administer the same, that he will well and truly discharge the duties pertaining to his said office of trustee without prejudice or partiality; and it shall be the duty of the said trustees of each of said school districts, or a majority of them, to furnish, at the expiration of To fumisha their term of service, to the commissioners aforesaid, a correct statement gg3m;;;;; of all money transactions done by them in virtue of their office as trus- transactions_ tees of said primary school district. Sec. 16. And be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of the féPg°’?°¤m°”* commissioners of primary schools aforesaid to apportion all moneys gugcpggmugglxys which shall come into the' hands of the treasurer of the school fund aforesaid, under and by virtue of the provisions of this act, after paying the salaries of the clerk of the commissioners and the treasurer of the school fund, for the use of primary schools aforesaid, as soon as may be after such moneys shall be received by the said treasurer, equally among the several school districts in said county, which shall have complied with the provisions of this act; and all moneys so to be apportioned by the commissioners, as aforesaid, shall be caused to be paid by them, according to such apportionment, to the trustees of the district to which such moneys shall be apportioned, as aforesaid, whose receipts therefor shall be good and sufficient evidence of such payment, which moneys, so to be received by the trustees, as aforesaid, shall be applied and expended by them, after the apportionment for the first year, in paying the salaries of the teachers to be employed by them, and for no other purpose: Provided, That no moneys apportioned, as aforesaid, except the Provisos apportionment made for the first year, shall be paid by the commissioners aforesaid, until the white taxable inhabitants, and the trustees of the district to which such moneys shall be apportioned, as aforesaid, shall have substantially complied with the provisions of this act; And provided furt/ter, That it shall not be lawful for the commissioners aforesaid to draw any moneys from the hands of the treasurer of the school fund aforesaid, after paying the salaries of the clerk of the commissioners and the treasurer of the school fund aforesaid, except by draft, in favor of the trustees of the school district to which such moneys shall be apportioned, as aforesaid; and all moneys which shall be apportioned by the commissioners, as aforesaid, and which shall remain unpaid for the space of two years thereafter, either from the omission or neglect of the trustees of the primary school district entitled to receive the same, to apply therefor, and to make the necessary certificates to entitle them to the same, or from any defect in such certificates, said moneys shall, after the expiration of said term, be added to the moneys next thereafter to be apportioned by the said commissioners, and shall be apportioned and paid together with such moneys, as aforesaid. Sec. 17. And be it further enacted, That the trustees of each school Term of omce district shall hold their office till their successors shall be elected and °f “`““““· qualified, and in case of vacancy such vacancy shall be filled by the