board and of all district meetings when present; but if such clerk shall not be present at any district meeting, the voters present may appoint a clerk of such meeting, who shall certify the proceedings thereof, and the same shall be recorded by the clerk of the district.
Sect. 24. It shall be the duty of the clerk to give at least ten days notice previous to any annual or special district meeting, by posting up notices thereof at three or more public places in the district, one of which notices shall be affixed to the outer door of the school-house, if there be one in the district, and said clerk shall give the like notice of every adjourned meeting, when such meeting shall have been adjourned for a longer period than one month. Every notice for a special district meeting shall specify the objects for which such meeting is called, and no business shall be acted upon at any special meeting, not specified in said notice.
Sect. 25. The clerk of the district shall draw orders on the treasurer of the district, for moneys in the hands of such treasurer, which have been apportioned to or raised by the district to be applied to the payment of teachers' wages, and apply such money to the payment of teachers' wages as shall have been employed by the district board, or by the citizens of the district, and the said clerk shall draw orders on the said treasurer for moneys in the hands of such treasurer, to be disbursed for any other purpose ordered by a district meeting, or by the district board agreeably to the provisions of this act.
Sect. 26. It shall be the duty of the clerk to make out tax lists of all taxes legally authorized by the district, and annex to such tax lists a warrant under the hand of said clerk, directed to the treasurer of said district, requiring said treasurer to collect the sums therein named.
Sect. 27. The clerk of each district shall, between the first and fifteenth days of September in each year, make out and transmit a report in writing to the county superintendent of public instruction, showing: 1. The number of white children, male and female, designated separately, residing in the district or parts of districts, on the last day of August previous to the date of such report, over the age of five and under the age of twenty-one years. 2. The number of white children attending school during the year, their sex, and