missioners. The amount of his salary shall be determined each year by the actual number of schools, or separate departments in graded schools, over which the county superintendent had official supervision the preceding year, and shall be paid out of the county general fund monthly, if the county commissioners have regular monthly meetings, otherwise in the amounts due at the meeting of the commissioners for the transaction of general business, upon the warrant of the county auditor after being audited by the county commissioners. In every county which shall be organized for school purposes after the passage of this act, the county superintendent shall be paid a salary at the rate of three hundred (300) dollars a year until the first Monday in October next following his election, after which his salary shall be fixed as provided for in this section. The county superintendent may appoint a deputy who shall perform the duties of the county superintendent only in case of the disability of the county superintendent or his absence from the county; Provided, That no additional salary shall be paid such deputy, but he shall be paid five (5) cents a mile for the distance actually and necessarily traveled in the same manner the county superintendent is paid; Provided, further, That the county superintendent shall be responsible for his acts in office.
§ 34. No person shall be deemed legally qualified for the office of county superintendent unless he or she holds a certificate of the highest county grade or its equivalent.
ARTICLE III.
SCHOOL DISTRICTS.
§ 35. WHAT SHALL CONSTITUTE DISTRICT SCHOOL CORPORATION.] Each civil township in every county in the State, not organized for school purposes under the district system at the taking effect of this act, shall be and is hereby constituted a distinct school corporation, and whenever hereafter in any county a civil township shall be organized, it shall from and after such organization as a civil township, be and constitute a distinct school corporation, except as otherwise specially provided in this act.
§ 36. BOUNDARIES OF SCHOOL TOWNSHIP TO CONFORM WITH CIVIL TOWNSHIP WHERE POSSIBLE.] Each school township in every county in the State, which at the taking effect of this act consists of territory not organized into a civil township, shall be and remain a distinct school corporation; Provided, Whenever such school township, or any part thereof, shall be organized into or annexed to a civil township, such civil township shall thenceforth constitute a distinct school corporation; Provided, further, Nothing in this act shall be construed to alter the boundary lines of any school township organized prior to the passage of this act, except upon petition aa hereinafter provided.
