55 ILCS 5/1-4012
The county superintendent of schools of the petitioning county shall continue to act as such in the territory that constituted the petitioning county before said proclamation, until his term of office shall expire; at which time he shall deliver to the county superintendent of schools of the adjoining county, without any demand therefor, all moneys, books, papers and personal property, belonging to the office of the county superintendent of the petitioning county, whenever the term of office of the county superintendent of the petitioning county shall have expired, by death, resignation, or lapse of time, all notes and mortgages, and other contracts, payable to, or made in the name of the county superintendent of the petitioning county may be collected, and in any manner enforced, by suit, or otherwise, by and in the name of the county superintendent of the adjoining county. The county superintendent of the petitioning county shall be subject to the direction and control of the county board of the adjoining county, in the same manner and to the same extent that he would have been subject to the county board of the petitioning county, if the same had continued to have a separate existence as a county.
55 ILCS 5/1-4012