erty" and equipment. Any "change of textbooks shall be determined by such board," and the board has under its control the care and management of township libraries. By a decision of the State department of education the board "may adopt rules and regulations for the government of the schools of the county." Many important duties and powers are given to the county superintendent; these are enumerated elsewhere in this bulletin. The county superintendent is selected not by the full county board, but by a meeting of the township trustees.

Oregon. There are in the State three separate county boards whose functions are part of the educational work of the county. There is a county high-school board consisting of the county judge, the county commissioners, the county treasurer, and the county superintendent; a county board of examiners for eighth-grade graduation composed of the county superintendent and four others selected by him; and a county educational board. The last-mentioned board, which is provided only for counties with 60 or more school districts, is composed of the county superintendent and four others appointed by him for four-year terms. Its duties are to divide the county into supervisory districts containing from 20 to 50 school districts and to employ a supervisor of schools for each district. It makes the necessary rules and regulations concerning the work of these supervisors. The county educational board is authorized also to act as an advisory board to the county superintendent in all things connected with his work.

1 Number of townships.

The New York supervisory district is a county or a part of a county.
Organized on two distinct units.

Philadelphia County excluded.

6 Two superintendents have one-half county each.

TABLE 2.-States with a county or semicounty system.

1 The rural "district" usually contains one school.

2 Average number.

3 Five, seven, or nine members.

TABLE 2.-States with a county or semicounty system-Continued.