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PENALTIES AND DISABILITIES.

SEC. 59. Whenever any school officer is superceded by election or otherwise, he shall immediately deliver his successor in office all books, papers and school funds pertaining to his office; and every such officer, who shall refuse so to do, or who shall wilfully mutilate or destroy any such books or papers, or any part thereof, or shall misapply any funds entrusted to him by virtue of his office, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and, on conviction, shall be fined at the discretion of the Court, not exceeding one hundred dollars.

SEC 60. Every person elected or appointed to any office mentioned in this act shall, before entering upon the discharge of the duties thereof, take the oath of office prescribed by the Constitution, Article VI, section four. In case such officer has a written appointment or commission, his oath shall be endorsed thereon; otherwise, it may be taken orally. In either case it may be sworn to before any officer authorized to administer oaths; and school officers are hereby authorized to administer the oath required by their respective officers without charge or fee. 

SEC. 61. All fines and penalties, not otherwise provided for in this act, shall be collected by an action in any Court of competent jurisdiction.

SEC. 62. All cases of disputes in relation to school matter, not properly belonging to courts of justice, may be referred first to the County Commissioners, and appealed to the State Superintendent of Public Instruction.

THE SUPERINTENDENT OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION.

SEC. 63. The Superintendent of Public Instruction shall keep his office at the seat of government. He shall provide a seal for his office, and copies of his acts and decisions, and of papers kept in his office, and authenticated by his signature and official seal, shall be of the same force and validity as the 

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original. He shall sign all requisitions on the Auditor for the payment of money out of the State Treasury for public school purposes.

SEC. 64. He shall be furnished with such office room, furniture, fuel and stationery as shall be necessary for the efficient discharge of the duties of his office, at the expense of the State.

SEC. 65. He shall direct the operations of the system of public schools and enforce the regulations and laws in relation thereto. 

SEC. 66. He shall report to the Governor annually on the first of November. The Governor shall transmit such report to the Legislature, and, if ordered to be printed, the Secretary of State shall bind one hundred copies and deliver them to the Superintendent, who shall deposit two copies in the Library of the Department of Public Instruction, and one copy to each University, College and Normal School in the State. The remaining copies shall be distributed, one to the State Library of each State and Territory, and the others to such institutions of learning and persons as he may deem proper. The Legislature shall order at least five thousand pamphlet copies to be furnished the Superintendent, who shall distribute them as he may deem advisable to school officers and other persons in the several Counties. 

SEC. 67. Said reports shall contain a statement of the condition of the public schools in the State; full statistical tables by Counties, showing among other statistics, the number of school children in the State, the number attending public schools, and the average attendance; the number attending private schools, and the number not attending any schools; the amount of State School Fund, the sources from which derived and how apportioned, the amount raised by County and Township taxes, and from other sources of revenue for public school purposes; the amount expended for salaries of teachers, for building, improving and preserving school houses; a statement of plans for the management and improvement of schools and school building, of the condition of the State Normal Schools, 
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