Said county commissioners shall have authority, and they are hereby authorized, in the support, conduct, and management of said “Children's Home,” to employ a superintendent and such other teachers, employés, and other assistants as may be necessary, to keep said children or inmates properly clothed, fed, and cared for in sickness and in health, and to make proper provisions for giving said inmates instructions in reading, writing, arithmetic, drawing, duties of citizenship, and such branches as may be deemed requisite for a good English education, which instruction shall be subject to the provisions of the act approved the eighteenth day of May, one thousand nine hundred and eleven (Pamphlet Laws, three hundred nine), and known as the school code,¹ its amendments and supplements, and shall be under the direction of the county superintendents of schools.