Chap. 23.—An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved January
19th, 1876, entitled an act to amend and re-ennct section 28, chapter
78 of the Code of 1873, to provide’for taking the census of school
population.

Approved January 14, 1878,

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly, That the act
approved January ninteenth, eightcen hundred and seventy-
five, entitled an act to amend and re-enact section twenty-
eight, chapter seventy-eight of the Code of eighteen hundred
and seventy-three, to provide for taking the census of school
poprauon, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as fol-
Ows:

§ 28. It shall be the duty of the clerk of the district school
board, during the months of June or July, eighteen bundred
and seventy-five, and every five years thereafter, to take a
cersus of all persons residing within the school district be-
tween the ages of five and twenty-one years, and to gather
statistics relating to the interests of education in the district,
according to form furnished from the office of the superin-
tendent of public instruction. The lists thus prepared shall
be submitted for careful revision to the district school board
as soon a8 may be after their completion, and shall at all
times be open to the inspection of any citizen. They shall
also be submitted along with the other papers of the district,
to the county board at its annual meeting, and shall be im-
mediately thereafter delivered to the county or city superin-
tendent of schools. For this service the clerk shall receive
out of the district school funds, a compensation therefor, at
the rate of three dollars per hundred, of the children listed
by him, subject to abatement or fine, by the district board,
on the discovery before or after the settlement of the account,
of errors or omissions in the list, as provided in section forty of
this act. All errors in the lists shall be rectified by the clerk
without extra compensation. It shall be the duty of the
county superintendent to exercise special care in securing a
prompt and accurate discharge of this duty by the district
clerks. The duty of taking the census of the school popu-
lation shall be discharged by no other person.

2. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent with this act, are
hereby repealed.

3. This act shall be in force from its passage.