Southport telegraph. [volume] (Southport, W.T. [i.e. Kenosha, Wis.]) 1840-1850, 1841-03-09

that purpose from the persons liable there
for as above provided.
9th, To exempt from the payment Of
the wages of teachers such INDECENT per-
sons within the district as thoy shall think
proper.
10th, To certify such exemptions and
deliver the certificate thereof to the clerk
of the said district, to be kept on file in
his Office
llth, To ascertain by examination of
the school lists kept by such teachers, the
number of days for which each person not
exempted shall be liable to pay for in
structien, and the amount paid by each
person.
18th, To make out rate bill containing
the name Of each person so liable, aud the
amount fer which he is liable, adding
thereto five cents on each dollar OF The
sum due from hin, for collectors fees, and
to annex thereto . warrant for the collec-
ton thereof.
13, To deliver such rate bill with the
warrant annexed to the collector Of the dis
trict who shall execute the same In like
manner with other warrants directed to
him by them.
Sec. 7. No person shall be entitled to
vote in any school district meetings who is
not freehoIder or householder in said dis
trict, or has not paid county tax during
the preceding year.
Sec. s. Whenever a district shall be
organized, and the returns made agreeablv
to the seventh section Of the act to which
this is amendatery, and no school shall be
kept in said district, the money apportioned
TO said district by the county commission
ers, shall be retained In tho county treas
ury for the use Of said district two years;
and in case the said district has not then
complied with the provisions of the law
emitting it 10 its apportionment otthe school
fund. then the same shall be apportioned
with other monies TO the several schools
in the county entitled by law TO the same.
And in every county where the commits
sloners have not made an apportionment
Of the school money, such funds shall
come within the provisions of this section.
Sec. 8. Any district collector elected
in pursuance Of the provisions Of this act,
and Of the act of which this act is amend
atory, shall within ten days after recev-
ing notice Of his election, file bond with
the district clerk in such penal sumas shall
be required and approved by the trustees
of the proper district, conditioned for the
faithful discharge of the duties Of his Office.
Sec. 10. No person shall commence
teaching any district school without first
obtaining a certificate Of qualification from
the commissioners Of common schools and
no teacher shall be entitled to any compen-
sation for the time he may have taught
previous TO obtaining such certificate.
Sec. IL. The commissioners Of schools
Of two or more towns in the same, or adj
joining counties, on application Of persons
interested, may meet and form school dis
tricts from parts Of adjoining counties, as
they may deem for the public good: Pro-
vided, plat Of said district shall be filed
in all the counties of which the districts
are formed, agrceably to law. The clerk
of which district thus formed, shall make
returns 10 the clerk Of the board of county
commissioners Of each county, any part of
which is included within such district and
each portion of the district thus formed
shall be entitled to its portion Of school
money from the county within which it
lies, tho same as if it were an entire Gis-
trict.
Sec. IL. II shall be the duty Of the
clerk of the board of county commission
ers Of each organized county in the Ter
ritory, to report TO the Secretary Of the
Territory, by or before the first day Of
each annual session of the Legislative AS
sembly, full statistical account Of all re-
turns made to his office, during the prece-
ding year,of schools, and also OF the amount
Of money collected and paid out for the
same purpose; and the said Secretary is
hereby required to report all such returns
made to him to the said assembly within
the first week of its annual session.
Sec. 13. When a new district shall
be formed from one or more districts pos
sessed Of a school house, and in cases
where any district from which such new
district shall be in whole or part formed,
shall be entitled to other property than It's
school house, then the commissioner Of
common schools, at the time Of forming
such new district shall ascertain and de-
termine the amount justly due TO such new
district from any district out Of which it
may have been in whole or in part formed.
as the proportion of such new district of
the value Of the school house and other
properly belonging TO the former district
at the time Of such division.
Sec. IA. Such proportion shall be ascer-
tanned according TO the taxable property
of the inhabitants of the respective parts
of such former district at the time Of build
ing such house, and acquiring such pro-
perty by the best evidence in the power of
the commissioners, and deduction shall be
made therein for any debts due to the for
NOR district