Quasqueton guardian. (Quasqueton, Buchanan County, Iowa) 1856-1858, 1858-04-22

boundaries, ana III CASE io SUCH SuD-ulS-
tricts exiet, shall establish the same, and
shall have power at any regular meeting
to change the boundaries of said sub-dis-
tricts, as circumstances may require, no.
tice of the same having been given at the
previous meeting they shall couse all
such changes and establishment of bound
aries to be marked upon said map or plat,
and recorded in the proper book, and may
from time to time as accession may require,
cause new maps to be made.
20. They shall vary the per centum of
tax voted by the district meeting for
school house purposes, when justice and
equity require, making such discrimina-
ton as they shall deem just They may, if
necessary, appoint three disinterested
householders of the county, to examine
and rcportto them the amount, value and
condition of the property and reliable
funds belonging and coming to each dis
trict, organized under the law now in
force, in its corporate capacity, and ap-
propriated to school house purposes,
which report shall be sworn to and enter
ed by the secretary upon the records of
the board, and such report together with
the total amount of taxable property in,
and the necessities of each sub district in
the township in regard to school house
accommodations for the pupils therein,
shall constitute the basis of action Of the
in determining the per centum Of tax to
be levied upon each sub-district.
2l. They shall, at their regular meeting
in April of each year, estimate the per
centum oftax on the taxable property in
the district necessary to raise fund
which, with the addition of the amount
of teachers fund due from the county
treasurer as shown by notice from the
county Judge, shall be sufficient to pay
the entire tuition of the several schools Of
the district for at least the time required
by this act, for the current year, which
per centum they shall certify to the coun
ty Judge shall, at the time levying the
taxes for county purposes, levy the per
centum of tax thus certified to him, upon
the property of said district, which shall
be collected and paid over in the same
manner in all respects as othte school dis
trict taxes.
&C. They shall make such classifcations
of the pupils in the high school or schools
as they may deem necessary, fix the COM
pensation Of the Secretary and Treasurer
of the district, transact generally such
business as may tend to promote the cause
of education in accordance with the pro-
visions of this act, and shall exercise all
power contemplated therein.
s 81. The county Judge of each county
shall at the time of levying the tax for
county purposes, levy tax for the sup
port of schools within the county, if not
less than one mill, nor more than two and
a half mills on dollar, on the assessed
value of all real and personal property
within the county, which shall be collect
ed by the county collector at the same
time and in the same manner as State and
county taxes are collected except that it
shall be receivable only in cash.
s 32 On the first Monday of April
annually. the county Judge of each coun-
ty shall divide one half OF the proceeds of
said tax among the several school districts
of his county, and apportion the same sum
to each district. And at the same time
he shall apportion the remainder of said
tax, together with the interest of the per-
manent school fund to which his county
is entitled, and all other money in the
hand of the county treasurer belonging
in common to the schools of his county,
among the several school districts there
in, in proportion to the number of persons
between five and twenty -one years of fage,
subject to the provisions OF section two
of this act. And in order to enable him
to make such apportionment, it is hereby
made the duty of the several county sup
perintendents to report to their respective
county judges on the first day of Novem
ber annually, the number ofsuch persons
in each school district in his county.
5 33. The county judges shall imme
diately notify the President Of each
school district of the sum to which his
district is entitled by said apportionment,
and shall issue his warrant for the same
to accompany said notice, which warrant
shall be also signed by the President,
and countersigned by the Secretary of
the district in whose favor the same is
drawn. and shall authorize the district
treasurer to draw the amount due said
district from the county treasurer. and
the secretary shall charge the treasurer
of the district with all the other warrants
drawn in his favor, and credit him with
all warrants drawn on the funds in his
hand keeping separate accounts for each
fund.
S34. For training and educating young
men to become teachers in the common
schools of the State, there shall be estab-
lished in every county of the State, hav-
ing high school established therein, as
many scholarship as there are school dis
tricts therein, and one scholarship shall
be assigned to each district.
5 35. 1t shall be the duty Of the board
of directors in each school district in such
county. with the principal teachers in
each school sometime in the month of
January next after the passage ofthis act,
to select the best scholar in the district,
not less than fifteen years ofage, for abil-
ty, attainments and capacity for teach
ing, for the scholarship of said district /;
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