the same supplied with the necessary furniture, fuel, light, record books, stationery, postage and such other things as shall be necessary. The county financial secretary shall receive for his services required by this act an annual compensation of seventy-five dollars, except that in counties having more than one hundred teachers employed for at least six months during the year, the annual compensation shall be at the rate of seventy-five cents for each teacher so employed, said compensation to be based on the number of teachers employed during the preceding year, and to be paid quarterly on orders issued by the county court drawn on the general county fund.

Sec. 149-d. After July first, one thousand nine hundred and thirteen, no sheriff or school treasurer shall pay any order which was drawn on a school fund prior to July first, one thousand nine hundred and thirteen, until after said order has been countersigned by the county financial secretary. At the end of each month the sheriff or school treasurer shall make a report to the county financial secretary showing the date, number and amount of each school bond and interest coupon paid during the month.

This act shall be in effect on and after July first, one thousand nine hundred and thirteen.

All general and special acts and parts of acts inconsistent with this act are hereby repealed.

(House Bill No. 355.)

CHAPTER 63.

AN ACT to amend and re-enact section one of chapter twenty of the acts of one thousand eight hundred and ninety-three, entitled, "an act to establish the independent school district of Belington in Barker and Valley districts in Barbour county."

(Passed February 19, 1913. In effect ninety days from passage. Approved by the Governor February 20, 1913.

SEC.

1. Boundaries of independent school district of Belington, set out. Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:

That section one of chapter twenty of the acts of one thousand eight hundred and ninety-three, be amended and re-enacted, so as to read as follows:

Sec. 1. The boundaries of the independent school district of Bel

ington shall include all the territory covered by the corporate limits of the city of Belington, which corporate limits are bounded and described as follows, to wit:

Beginning at a red oak on the west bank of the Tygart's valley river, a corner to the lands of Joseph Teter's heirs and Valley Coal and Coke company, and running south 25° 30′ east 57.75 perches to a stake on the Buckhannon road, corner to the Valley Coal and Coke company; thence with the said road south 35° 30′ west 51.15 perches to a white oak; thence south 66° west 21 perches to a stake; thence south 56° west 28.25 perches to three chestnuts, corner to Laura Hathaway and the Tygart's Valley Mineral and Oil company; thence south 45° 30′ east 18 perches with said line; thence south 56° 30′ east 4.50 perches with said line; thence north 44° 30′ east 9.25 poles with said line; thence south 37° east 25.25 perches with said line; thence south 37° 45′ east 25.50 perches with said line; thence south 30° 45′ east 12 perches with said line to a white oak; thence south 5° east 10.50 perches with said line to a beech; thence south 14° 30' west 25.75 perches with said line to a sassafras; thence south 40° west 7.50 perches with said line to a stake with locust pointers, corner to heirs of Jesse Teter; thence with their line south 82° 15′ east 10 perches to a beech and birch, corner to Charles Keiser; thence with his lines south 7° west 48 perches to a white oak stump on the bank of Big Run, corner to the heirs of Jesse Teter and said Keiser; thence with their line south 76° 15′ east 150 perches to a stone on the east side of the county road, corner to the heirs of Jesse Teter; thence with their line south 23° west 58 perches to a stone in the river opposite the old Rosenberger mill site, corner to the heirs of Jesse Teter and H. A. Monahan; thence up the Valley river with its meanderings at the water's edge, south 52° 31' west 29.60 perches; thence south 10° 15' west 23.20 perches; thence south 5° 30′ east 26.76 perches; thence south 32° east 36.60 perches; thence south 47° 30′ east 13.80 perches: thence south 81° east 21.81 perches; thence north 80° east 28.32 perches passing the south end of the Roaring creek and Belington railroad bridge: thence south 80° 30' east 9.32 perches; thence south 33° 30' east 9.68 perches; thence crossing the said river, north 87° 15′ east 13 perches to a stake at the culvert on the east side of the said river on the West Virginia Central and Pittsburg railway; thence south 49° 15′ east 38.74 perches to a stake in Hillyard's field near a line of the Belington industrial company; thence south 88° 30′ east 47.88 perches to a stake; thence south 89° 40′ east 24.24 perches to a stake;

thence north 79° 30′ east 110 perches to a stake at the old road, corner to Luther and John Hillyard on the old road crossing the mountain; thence with said road north 18° 45′ west 28.18 perches to a stake in the road; thence north 22° west 39.81 perches to a stake, corner to J. G. Stalnaker and W. S. Phares' place; thence with the said Stalnaker and Phares' line, north 55° 30' east 71 perches to a stake at the Fairmont and Beverly pike, corner to the said Phares and Stalnaker and W. S. Shurtleff; thence with said pike north 17° 30′ west 75 perches; thence north 3° east 33 perches; thence north 25° 30′ west 28 perches; thence north 44° 30′ west 17 perches; thence north 25° 30′ west 20 perches to corner of J. W. Ward and J. W. Shurtleff; thence leaving the pike and running with said Ward's line, north 14° 30′ east 39.14 perches to a stake, corner to Shurtleff and Ward; thence with said Shurtleff's line north 12° east 39 perches to a locust, corner to Shurtleff; thence north 42° east 97 perches to a stake, corner to Shurtleff and T. T. Elliott; thence south 10° west 6 perches to a stone, corner of Shurtleff and T. T. Eliott; north 52° east 67 perches to a white oak, corner to Serpell and Elliott; thence 43° 30' west 18.80 perches to a gum, corner of Dunham and Elliott; thence with Dunham and Elliott's line north 56° 30′ west 120 perches to a white oak, corner to Dunham; thence north 66° west 14.28 perches to a stake; thence north 6° east 5 perches to a stake at the Morgantown pike; thence north 47° west 71.45 perches to two black walnuts in Martha Davis' field; thence north 63° west 99.60 perches to a chestnut in J. W. Thornhill's field; thence south 83° west 84.36 perches to a walnut in J. W. Thornhill's field; thence south 11° west 24.24 perches to a stake at the Fairmont pike; thence north 80° 30′ west 30 perches to a large sugar on the south side of the pike; thence south 85° 30' west 52.12 perches to a stake in Rohrbough's field; thence south 77° west 128.84 perches to a large sugar on the south side of the Baltimore and Ohio railroad; thence south 72° west 30 perches, crossing the Tygart's Valley river to the beginning, containing one thousand three hundred acres.

All acts or parts of acts inconsistent herewith are hereby repealed.

(House Bill No. 392.)

CHAPTER 64.

AN ACT to create the independent school district of Church, in the county of Wetzel.

(Passed February 17, 1913.

In effect from passage. Approved by the Governor
February 20, 1913.)

SEC.

SEC.
18.

Who entitled to admission to schools.

Sub-districts.

Board to elect superintendent, fix his salary; his duty; how vacancy may be filled.

Board may appoint assistant superintendent.

Duty of superintendent; board may refuse to appoint; recommendations.

Officers shall not receive gift for, etc.; penalty.

Superintendent may issue certifi cates; state superintendent may revoke.

How certificates may be granted. Teachers may be required to pass on additional subjects.

Duty of superintendent as to schools.

Teachers subject to.

Teachers, how appointed.

Board may establish high schools. Board may abolish sub-district and make other provisions.

May hold institute in district. Penalty for defacing property. Board prescribe circumstances under which school house may be used.

Medical inspection.

Inconsistent laws void.

When this act shall become effective; an election provided for.

19.

20.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:

Sec. 1. The magisterial district of Church, in the county of Wetzel, as now bounded and designated in the records of the clerk of the county court of said county, shall be, and is hereby created an independent school district, to be known as the "Church independent school district."

Sec. 2. There shall be a board of education for said district to consist of five commissioners, who shall be residents and freeholders thereof, at least one of whom shall reside outside of the corporate limits of the town of Hundred. The president and commissioners now in office shall serve to the end of the term to which they have respectively been elected or appointed.

Sec. 3. On or before the first day of May, one thousand nine hundred and thirteen, there shall be appointed by the county superintendent of free schools, of the said Wetzel county, two school commissioners, one of whom shall reside outside the corporate limits of the town of Hundred, and who shall hold office until the first day of July, one thousand nine hundred and fifteen.

At the general election held in the year one thousand nine hundred and fourteen, there shall be elected two commissioners who shall

succeed the two commissioners whose appointment is provided for in this section and whose term of office shall begin on the first day of July, one thousand nine hundred and fifteen, and continue four years. There shall also be elected at the same time two commissioners whose term of office shall begin on the first day of July, one thousand nine hundred and fifteen, and continue for six years.

At the general election held in the year one thousand nine hundred and sixteen, there shall be elected one commissioner whose term of office shall begin on the first day of July, one thousand nine hundred and seventeen, and continue for six years.

All vacancies in the said board shall be filled by a majority vote of the remaining members of said board, but no person shall be elected except upon the nomination of the superintendent of schools of the district, or if no district superintendent, upon the nomination of the county superintendent. The commissioner or commissioners so appointed to fill such vacancy shall serve until the next general election, or until their successors are elected and qualified.

Sec. 4. At a regular meeting of the board of education, to be held on the first Monday in July, one thousand nine hundred and thirteen, and each year thereafter, one of the commissioners shall be elected as president of the board; provided, he shall receive a majority vote of all the commissioners and shall continue to serve as such for the period of one year. He shall be allowed one vote on all questions.

Sec. 5. At the first regular meeting of the board of education on the first Monday of July of each year, a secretary shall be elected, who shall not be a member of the board, and who shall perform such duties as are prescribed by the general school law, and such other duties as may be prescribed by the board, and shall receive for his services such compensation as shall be fixed by the board.

Sec. 6. Each commissioner shall receive for his services such compensation as is allowed members of boards of education under the general school law.

Sec. 7. In the absence of the president or secretary, a president or secretary pro tempore shall be elected.

Sec. 8. In addition to the regular meeting prescribed by the general school law, the board of education may hold regular meetings. at such times and places within the district as it may appoint.

Special meetings may be called by the president, or at the written. request of two commissioners, by the secretary; but no business shall be done at such special meetings except such as is embraced in the call.