Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1858-04-30

sgq54s ta AUDITORS 0FF1cE.
! ss DELAWARE, April %, 1858. &
/ hereby certify tIIat.the foregoing
acts are correctly copied.
I'll; q als4s aosD.sW. RHODES
Auditor of Delaware County.
= TO Township Boards of Education.
AUDITORS Office: Delaware Co. o.
April 29sh, 1885
GExTLEMEN:-The Legislature having a
mended Section % of the General School
Law, passed March I4th 1S53.in such a
manner as to materially change the levying
| Of Special or Sub-district taxes; | herewith
publish, for your better understanding, the
following amendment.
s.SEcTIoN %. The Township Beard of
Education shall have power, when, in their
| opinion, justice and equity require it, to esti-
mate separately the cost of purchasing a
school house site, and erecting or repairing
a sclloolIhouse thereon, in any particular
sub district OF the tow usIip wherein the in-
habitarts have not heretofore boriie a rea-
sonable share Oft burden oftaxatlon for
such purpose in comparison with other sub
districts in the township, and certify such
portion as theyana nay deem just aud equitable
Of the amount OF such estimate, 10 the
County Auditor Of the proper county, TO-.
gether with a map of the lands and names
of the tax payers in any such sub district;
which amoont,s SO certified, shall be assessed
by the Auditor on property therein subject to
taxation, and be placed on the county du-
plicate specially, and be collected and paid
overin the same manner as other school
taxes. and be applied for the specific purpose
los providing a school house in such suo-dis--
trict: PROVIDED, That such tar shall not be
levied ie any su5-district scAeresa such lar
hes 5eea HERETOFORE leeied, nor an any case
shall ii be assessed more than once fe The
same su6-dissrict; and further proeiaed, that
such tar shall not be assessed an am sn6-dis-
trict rhieh may be hereafter created, unless
the AID sub'district shat be composed In
uholci of territory upon phfch such tac has
not heretofore been leu5ed.
The last clause OF the section. printed in
italics, is additional to the section as it was
previous to this amendment. 1t is highly
desirable that its force and import should be
correctly understood. II is designed and a.
dapted 70 limit the application of the sec
ton to appropriate purposes. Hitherto the
law has. in manv instances, been mlsunder-
stood and misappiied. Fhis has given rise
to numerous abuses and diffieuItiesys in the
administration of our school system the
repetition of which will be prevented by the
amendment enacted.
- 1t should be distinctly understood that a
special, or sub-district tax, can be levied for
no other purpose, whatever, than for the
'scost of purchasing a school house site and
erecting or repairing a schooI house there
on and that even this tax cannot again be
levied in ssany sub-distsict wherein the same
has been heretofore levied, nor in any case
shall it be assessed more than once in the
same sub-district.' >.
AS this amendment took effect On its pas
sage, it will become necessary that special
meetings be held by all Boards of Education
which may have, at the meeting on the 10Th
instant, taken action not consistent there
with. Fer this there will be abundant time,
as estimates are not required to be made TO
this Office till the first Monday in June.
D. w. RHODES, Aud. Del. Co..