County (the name of the county in which they are appointed being used to fill the blank), and shall have official capacity to contract and be contracted. with, to sue and be sued in that name, and to adopt a seal and alter the same at pleasure. Such commission shall elect a chairman from the appointed members. The appointed members of the commission shall receive no compensation, but shall be allowed their expenses of travel when on business. of the commission. It shall have authority to employ such clerical or other assistance as the board may deem necessary.

$226. School Houses to be Built.-It shall be the duty of the commission to make such careful examination of the method of constructing and furnishing public school houses as may enable it to determine the best plan of erecting and furnishing the same, including ventilation, heating and lighting. The commission shall have the power to employ one or more architects to submit plans for such construction and furnishing, together or separately, and to attend to the carrying out of the same, and pay a reasonable compensation therefor.

§ 227. Bond to be Given by Employes.-The commission shall exact from its officers and employes such bond, with approved surety, as seems to it discreet, and fix the form of such bond. The premium on such bond shall be paid by the commission.

228. Plans to be Submitted to County Board. -When the commission shall have determined upon a plan for the erection and furnishing of a school house or school houses in said district, it shall lay said plans before the county board of education. If said plans so recommended by the commission be adopted by the county board of education, then

said commission shall have the right to proceed to acquire, by purchase or condemnation, all property necessary for such school houses and playgrounds, and the erecting and furnishing of said school houses so approved.

$229. Contract-How Let.-All work to be done or supplies or materials to be purchased in . carrying out the purposes of this act and involving an expenditure of $500 or more shall be by contract awarded to the lowest and best bidder; but the commission, with the consent of all of its members, may itself do any part of such work under such conditions as it may prescribe, whenever the superintendent of construction shall, in writing, recommend that course. All bids or parts of bids for any work or supplies or materials may be rejected by said commission. This section shall not apply to nor be construed so as to limit the power of the commission in the appointments of architects, clerks or agents.

§ 230. Bonds May be Voted.-In order to provide money for the acquisition of property for schools sites and the erection and furnishing of school buildings the fiscal court of any county may adopt a resolution submitting to the veters of the district, at the November election, occurring ninety days after the entry of the order and succeeding the appointment of the commission, the question whether bonds of the district shall be issued for the purpose of carrying out the work herein provided for. The resolution of the fiscal court shall provide the date and maturity of such bonds, the rate of interest they shall bear and the total amount to be issued, which shall in no event exceed the limit. fixed by the Constitution, and the resolution shall also contain the necessary details in reference to

the execution and delivery of said bonds, their denomination, coupons to be annexed, tax to be levied to pay the interest and sinking fund to retire such bonds.

§ 231. Bonds to be Sold-Depository to be Selected. When the voters of the district shall determine that such bonds shall be issued they shall, when so issued, be placed under the control of said commission, who shall determine when and at what price and how they shall be sold; provided that no such bonds shall be sold at less than par, and provided, further, that any premiums which may be obtained from said bonds shall constitute a part of the sinking fund for their ultimate retirement. As the said bonds are sold their proceeds shall go to the credit of the commission in some depository which shall be selected for the deposit by the commission, and shall be withdrawn only upon the checks of the secretary and treasurer of the commission, countersigned, in such manner and accompanied by voucher approved in such manner as may be prescribed by regulations to be adopted by the commission; provided, that the said commission shall exact of said depository bond, with surety, for the faithful accounting for and paying over of such money as may be from time to time drawn upon.

$232. Expenses to be Borne by Commission.The commission may select its necessary employes prior to the election on the subject of issuing bonds as provided in Section 230 of this act; but no compensation shall be paid to either of such officers for any work done until after the bonds have been voted. All disbursements of the commission, including compensation to its officers, agents and others employed by it, shall come out of the proceeds of the sale of said bonds. The duties pre

scribed for the commission in Sections 226, 227, 228, 229, and 231 of this act, hereof, shall not be performed, until and unless bonds have been voted. as provided in Section 230 of this act.

§ 233. Levy to be Made by Fiscal Court.—It shall be the duty of the fiscal court of the county to levy annually, upon the property subject to taxa-. tion in the said district, a sufficient rate to pay the interest on the said bonds and the sinking fund provided for in the order, and the principal of said bonds when the same shall mature. It shall be the duty of the sheriff of the county to collect such levy and turn over the same to the county treasurer, who shall apply the funds thus collected to the payment of the interest and principal of the bonds. And it shall also be the duty of the county treasurer, under the direction of the county court (board) of education, to invest the money derived from the sinking fund in such securities as may be approved by said county board of education.

§ 234. Title to Property Vested in County Board of Education.-The title to all property acquired by said commission shall be taken in the name of the county board of education and all money in the hands of the commission after defraying any liabilities which have been incurred by the commission, shall be paid into the hands of the county treasurer, to be used as a sinking fund for the bonds hereinbefore provided for. The commission shall pay out of the proceeds of the sale of said bonds all valid claims for damages or otherwise which may be preferred against it, and neither the county nor the district shall be liable for any debt which the commission may incur, or any claim for damages which may be asserted or awarded against the commission.

§ 235. County Attorney to Advise Board.—All legal services or advice which may be required by the commission shall be rendered by the county attorney and his assistants without additional compensation.

$236. County Boards to Canvass Votes.-It shall be the duty of the fiscal court to canvass the votes of the election provided for in Section 230 hereof, and upon its appearing that two-thirds of the voters in the district voting upon the question shall have voted in favor of the issue of said bonds, shall certify this fact by an order to be entered upon the order book containing the proceedings of the fiscal court. The said bonds shall contain a certificate that they have been duly issued under the provisions of this act, and such certificate shall be conclusive evidence that all steps preliminary to their valid issue have been regularly taken.

$237. Tax Levy to be Continued.-The fiscal court shall have power and authority, and it shall be its duty, to continue to levy said tax on the property of the entire district which voted the said bonds, notwithstanding any part thereof may be subsequently incorporated into any town, city or other municipal subdivision.

§ 238. All acts and parts of acts in conflict with this act are hereby repealed.

$239. In all years in which text books are selected and adopted by the Text Book Commission for the elementary schools of Kentucky said selection and adoption shall be made not later than the first day of May of the year in which such are made. Approved March 18, 1916.