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tendent may appoint, which shall constitute and be
designated commissioner districts number one, num-
ber two, &c. ; the annual salary of each school com-
missioner, and of each president of every board of
school commissioners, shall be determined by the
state board of education, and paid by the county
commissioners as other officers are paid.

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23. The person so appointed and their successors,
are hereby declared to be a body politic and corpo-
rate, by the name and style of the board of school
commissioners of —— city or county, and by that
name shall have perpetual succession, and shall be
capable to sue and be sued, and to have and use a
common seal, and the same at their pleasure to alter
or break, and to exercise all the powers and privi-
leges hereby granted to or vested in them ; all
property, estate and effects, all money, all funds, all
claims, all state donations now vested by law in any
county or school district, any board of school com-
missioners, any board of county commissioners, any
board of inspectors of primary schools, any trustee
or trustees of primary schools, or any other body
of persons whatsoever, for the use and benefit of
public, primary, free or high schools in the several
counties or any of them, are hereby vested in and
transferred to the board of school commissioners of
the county ; and it shall be the imperative duty of all
the parties aforesaid to convey, transfer and pay over
all such property, estate and effects, all money, all
funds, all claims, all state donations to the said boards
of school commissioners, except such grant or devise
of lands, donations and bequests of money, or other
personal property designed as or now constituting
such permanent school fund as the state board of
education may take and hold in accordance with the
provisions of sections six, one hundred and twenty-
nine and one hundred and thirty of this article ; if
any of the parties aforesaid shall refuse to comply
with the provisions of this section, the board of
school commissioners shall immediately apply to the

Ibid s. 2.
Boards of
school com-
missioners
made bodies
politic and cor-
porate their
powers.

What to be
transferred to
them.