ESTIMATES OF AMOUNTS NEEDED FOR SCHOOL PURPOSES; HOW AND WHEN TO BE MADE. To be submitted to board of supervisors; board of supervisors to revise estimates and levy tax necessary. 126. It shall be the duty of the county school board of each county, on or before the first Wednesday in November in each year, to prepare and file with the president of such board, to be by him submitted to the board of supervisors (of such county) at their earliest meeting, an estimate of the aggregate amount of money, not in excess of the maximum prescribed in the third clause of section sixty-seven (as amended by an act of assembly entitled an act to amend and reenact section sixty-seven, chapter seventy-eight, Code of eighteen hundred and seventy-three, approved March seventeenth, eighteen hundred and seventy-six), which will be needed during the next scholastic year for the support of the public free school system of the county. 127. The county school board of each county shall, on or before the first Wednesday in November in each year, after carefully revising the said estimates of the district boards of trustees, submitted to such county board in accordance with the provisions of the eighth clause of the thirty-first section, prepare and file with the president thereof, to be by him laid before the board of supervisors of the county, separate estimates of the probable, proper, necessary and legal expenses of the public free schools in each school district of the county for the next scholastic year. 128. It shall be the duty of the board of supervisors of each county, at a meeting which they are required to hold within ten days after they shall have been requested so to do by the president of the county school board, in such year, or at their first meeting after the said estimates shall have been submitted to said board of supervisors, to examine and revise the said estimates: provided, no money arising from such tax shall in any case be applied to the salaries of county superintendents of schools; except that in Nelson county the salary of the superintendent may be increased, and paid out of the county or district free school funds, to an extent that may be deemed just and proper for extra duties imposed upon him on account of the Dawson school fund, if there be no power to pay for such extra duties out of the said Dawson school fund donated to said county. 129. It shall be the duty of said board of supervisors, after carefully considering said estimates, to levy a tax upon the property of the county, not exceeding the maximum prescribed in the third clause of section sixty-seven (as amended by an act entitled an act to amend an reënact section sixty-seven, chapter seventy eight, Code of eighteen hundred and seventy-three, approved March seventeenth, eighteen hundred and seventy-six), sufficient to realize the amount recommended by the county school board in their estimates for county school purposes, or so much thereof as the board of supervisors may allow; and to levy a tax upon the property of each school district for which an estimate shall have been furnished, not exceeding the rate aforesaid, sufficient to realize the amount recommended by the county school board for public free school purposes in such school district, or so much thereof as the board of supervisors may allow. 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