The Kalida venture. [volume] (Kalida, Ohio) 1841-1865, 1851-04-11

ceedings ofihe directors during the year,
showing how many schools have been
taught, and for what length Of time, how
many male and how many female teachers
have been employed and the amount Of
salary paid each, the amount Of district
tax assessed during the yeur, and for what
purposes, the number Of school houses
built, the cost of same, and the nun
ber, and cost of books purchased during
The year for the dis'ric, library, and the
total number Of volumes in such library
a copy of which report be shall deliver
TO tho township clerk within 20 days after
the meeting. He shall furnish at the
expense of tho District, each teacher
with book in which 10 keep record Of
the school; shall countersign all orders
on the district treasury; shall act as dis
arict librarian, and expend, under the
direction of The directors, all moneys
raised for the purchase of books; and
| preform all other duties required by law
and not herein specified; |; and at the end
Of his officicial term, deliver over TO his
successor in office all books, paper, and
all other property in his possession be-
longing TO The district.
lee. 10 That whenever any district tax shall be
ordered by vote of The district or by the directors
thereof the district clerk shall within twenty days
after such tax has been ordered make ot and furnish
to the auditor of the county alphabetical HIST OF all
persons owning taxable property In the district sta
ting where the district line divides tract Of land, the
| Of nj In
said auditor shall Immediately furnish an abstract of
such taxable property, excluding the property Of
black and mulOtto PERSONS upon which the clerk shall
assess the amount Of tax required and place said du'
pcate in the hands of the district treasurer for col
iection and lie may charge for preparing said dupi-
cate where the amount assessed does not exceed one
hundred dLlars per cent the amount OF taXes,
and where 1t exceeds one hundred dollars, one per
cent, which shall be paid Gut uf the tax. Any clerk
failing perform TO be performed, the duties
required by this section shall be Liable TO tile district
for the amount of tax voted ordered to he levied.
| Sec l3. That the clerk of each school district
shall, annually, between the first and twentieth day
OF October take cause TO be taken an enumeration
of all the unmarried white youth In such district be-
tween the ages of four and twenty years resident
within said district the first day of October, desg
mating the number Of males and females, and not in
cludng such are tenn orarily within tile district
who shall he returned In the district where they have
n legal residence; and on or before the first day Of
November next ensuing said clerk shall deposit with
the township clerk accurate copy OF such enumer
atom and for the services required by this section,
the district clerk shall be allowed out of any moneys
| In the district treasury the sum of one dollar.
Sec. IA. That where n district Is composed Of parts
of two more TOWNSHIPS the clerk Of such district
shall return the enumeration Of youth in the several
parts Of said district to the clerk of the township In
which such youth reside. That il any district shall
be partly situated in the Vginin Military District,
the United States Military District, the Western Re-
serve. or in an original surveyed township or frac
tona townshipto which belongs any OF section six
teen, other lands in lien thereof any other lands
4 o interest proceeds
such school lands, the district clerk SHALL In taking
the enumeration OF youth in the district, return sepa
ratey those residing In the Virginia Military District,
| or United States Military District, or Western r e.
serve, original surveyed ntownsfp or fractional
township 10 which belongs any school lands inter
est on the proceeds of school lants.
Sec. Is, That The district clerk shnll be respon.
sble for oil losses sustained by the district by
of his failure TO take cause TO be taken, the enum
eraton ofyouth at the time and In the manner pro.
vded for in the foregoing sections, and the amount
shall he collected from such clerkby the directors in
action Of debt, in the and for the of the
district, before any Justice OF the peace within the
township where such clerk resides or other compe-
tent authority. "''t
DISTRICT TREASURER.
Ser. 49, That the district treasurer OF each school
district shall previous to entering upon the duties Of
his Office give bond and security, to be approved by
the district directors for TIE faithful disbursement of
all moneys belonging to the district which may come
into his hands which bond shall be made payable to
the district, and when forfeited 1t shall be the duty OF
the clerk by order of the directors to for and col
lect the for the use of the district before any
Justice Of the peace within the township where such
resides or other competent authority; and a
the expiration of his tern of office such treasurer shall
hand over to his successor all moneys hooks, papers
and osher property In his possession and belonging to
the district taking therefore receipt. n copy of
which he shall deposit with the district clerk within
ten days thereafter. 'r
Sac. IL. That the treasurer shall pay out on the
written order of the directors or any OF them.
couutersigned by the clerk, al moneys coming into
rhis] hands and belonging to the district, and not
otherwise he shall carefully file and preserve such
orders shall keep hook of accounts with tie district
in which he shall enter all moneys received, specify
ing the several purposes for which such funds were
raised and the amount and o'ject of each dishurse
nert; and shall report to The annual school district
meeting written statement of such receipts and dis
bursements.
Sec ls. That the district treasurer shall whenever
tax duplicate for the district Is furnished him by the
clerk demand or cause TO be demanded, within the
time prescribed by the directors the amount charged
on such duplicate from the taxpayers If they DO
found IN the township or townships within which the
district lies and if such tax be not paid within the
prescribed time, such treasurer may then collect the
by distress and sale of personal property In the
same manner as county treasurers are authorized to
do in the collection of State and county taxes; and
If the tax, SO assessrd on any real property shall
main unpaid for the space Of three months after the
experat0n of the time prescribed for payment; and If
sufficient personal property belonging to the delin
quen,s cannot he found In the township whereof to
make such tax by distress and SALE the treasurer shall
then report such delinquent delinquens to the
ty auditor, and the auditor being satisfied of the
correctness of the proceedings shall in making out the
duplicate of State and county taxes next thereafter
enter such delinquent tax In a separate column on
such duplicate to be collected other taxes by the
county treasurer, and when SO collected, such deIin
quent shall he paid over to the district treasurer
for the ofthe dist ct and for all collections made
under the provisions of this section the district treas
urer shall be entitled to receive upon each duplicate Of
taxes not exceeding one hundred dollars, four per
cent and upon each duplicate exceeding hundred
dollars four per cent, the first hundred and three
per cent on all over that sum, to be paid out of the
taxes so Nected provided that tax shall be col
eced for the purpose of building any school house as
provided for In this act unless the title the land
upon which said house proposed to be Is located
shall be secured to the district in which the may
be situated by deed permanent lease for such time
In the opinion of the whom the legality of
said tax may be submitted, will be the time such |
school house will [be] likely to last.
SEC. 10. That the township clerk
shall be superintendent of common
schools within his township; shall fill any
vacancy which may occur in the office
of director in any school district in his
township, or any fractional district, the
school house of which is located in his
township, and shall exercise the same
in such fractional district as
if the whole district was in his township;
and where the school house ia placed on