therein to make as  ample provision as possible by local taxation for the support of all the schools established within its jurisdiction. AaECSH In exceptional cases, where the topography of the country or the difficulty of communication makes such arrangement desirable, the division superintendent may attach a part of one school district to another and in such case he shall fix the amount which it  will be just for the former to contribute to the annual school expense of the latter. [74-13; Comp., 2030.] SECTION  1814 . Local School Board.  — In every municipality there shall be a local school board, consisting of four or six members, as the division superintendent may determine, in addition to the president of the municipality, who shall be a member  ex officio . One-half of the members, except the member  ex officio , shall be elected by the municipal council, and the remaining half shall be appointed by the division superintendent, and the term of office of all members, holding by appointment or election, shall  be two years and until their successors shall have been duly elected or appointed. One of the elective and one of the appointive members shall be women, so that two of the members of the local school board shall be women, and it shall be discretionary wit h the division superintendent of schools to increase the appointments, and with the municipal council to increase the elections, of women, provided that the total number of members shall not exceed four or six, as hereinbefore provided. [1918-1; 1966-1.] A division superintendent may temporarily suspend any appointed or elected member of the local school board, pending investigation; and with the approval of the Director of Education he may, after due notice and hearing, remove such officer. [74-11.] SECTION  1815 . Powers and Duties of Local School Board. —  It shall be the power and duty of the local school board — IaEACT ( a ) To visit from time to time the schools of the town and to report bimonthly to the division superintendent their condition and the attendance of pupils. ( b ) To recommend sites and plans to the municipal council for schoolhouses to be erected. aHESCT Copyright 2012 CD Technologies Asia, Inc. and Accesslaw, Inc. Philippine Law Encyclopedia 2011 544