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the district school board, and shall state the time and place of holding such election, and the officers to be elected and their terms of office, and shall be in substantially the following form, to-wit:

Notice is hereby given that on Tuesday the....day of June, A. D. 18....an election will be held at..(here insert polling place) for the purpose of electing.. (here insert officers to be elected and term each is to serve) for school district No....or for.... . ..(here insert name of school district), and (if an even numbered year) a county superintendent of schools for.......(insert name of county) county to serve for two years. The polls will be open at 2 o'clock p. m., and closed at 5 o'clock p. m. of that day.

By order of school board,

Signed..

Clerk.

§ 54. JUDGES.] At such annual election any two of the directors of the school district shall act as judges, and the clerk of the district school board and one other person, to be chosen by the voters present at the opening of the polls, shall act as clerks. The voters present at the opening of the polls shall choose another person to fill the vacancy caused by the absence of either of said officers, to act as judge or clerk of such election. Before opening the polls each of the judges and clerks of election, shall take and subscribe the following oath or affirmation: "I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will perform my duties as judge or clerk (as the case may be) according to law and the best of my ability." Such oath or

affirmation may be administered by any officer authorized to administer oaths, or by either of the judges or clerks. And any school officer elected and qualified under the provisions of this act is hereby authorized and empowered to administer any oath or affirmation pertaining in any manner to school officers.

§ 55. VOTES, HOW CANVASSED. ] Such annual school election shall be conducted and the vote canvassed as provided by law for general elections, except as otherwise provided in this act. Immediately after polls are closed, the judges shall proceed to count and canvass the votes cast for each person voted for at such election for any office, and the person receiving the highest number of votes for the office of director or treusurer shall be declared elected. The return of the number of votes cast for each person for county superintendent of schools shall be signed by such judges and clerk of elections, sealed in an envelope and forwarded to the county auditor within five days after such election.

§ 56. CERTIFICATES OF ELECTION.] The clerk of the school district shall within five days after such election, furnish each person elected to any district office, a written notice of his election, and that he shall take the oath of office as such officer on or before the second Tuesday in July following such election. He shall also forward to the county superintendent within ten days after such