35. Subject to the provisions of this Act, the Board of each district shall establish and maintain public schools within the district, whether such schools have already been established under the provisions of any Ordinance or Act hereby repealed or shall be established by the Board under the provisions of this Act; shall promote the establishment of school districts within such district, and define the limits thereof, with power to alter such limits as the Board shall see fit, and to divide any such school district into two or more school districts or parts of districts, or to combine two or more school districts or parts of such districts into one; shall appoint and remove officers and teachers in the manner provided by this Act; may establish scholarships, school libraries, and district high schools; shall raise the moneys required to be raised for the purposes of this Act, and administer the funds granted by the Education Department, and all other funds which may become the property of the Board; and generally shall have and exercise all the duties and functions imposed by this Act.

36. When any school district shall be divided into two or more such districts, or two or more such districts or parts of districts shall be combined into one district, then every such division of a school district and every such combination shall for the purpose of this Act be deemed a new school district, and the page 14 proceedings shall be taken in like manner as hereinafter provided for school districts originally constituted.

A "school year" shall be from the first day of January to the thirty-first day of December, both days inclusive, in each year.

37. Whenever any new school district shall be formed by a Board pursuant to the provisions of this Act, the Board shall direct a public notice of the formation of such new district and of the boundaries thereof to be published, and every school district shall be held to be bounded as described in any such notice.

38. Any persons having the management and control of any school not established under any of the Acts or Ordinances repealed hereby may, with the consent of the persons in whom the school buildings, lands, and endowments pertaining thereto are vested, and with the assent of the Governor, agree with the Board of the district in which such school is that the said school shall be subject to the management and control of the Board, and that the said buildings, lands, and endowments shall be vested in such Board instead of such persons as aforesaid.