The daily Evansville journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1862-1863, 1862-06-06

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/ all tax to be voted by the citizens of any
I and every scnool district in said county, an :
4 der and by virtue of this act, shall be lev
/ led on all the assessable property in said
/ district Owned by white persons, agreeabIy
/ to the assessments of the last preceding
county tax. Il ~
Sec. l3. Asd be IL further enacted, That it
shall be the duty of the Levy Court of the
! county aforesaid, at their first meeting after
! the passage of this act, and in each sue
/ ceeding year thereafter, when the annual
county levy is made, to impose and levy a
school tax of one-eighth OF one per cent.
| on all the assessable property of said county,
/ without the limits of the cities of Wash
/ ington and Georgetown, owned by white
1 persons for the support of primary schools
hereby authorized in said county, which
tax shall be due at the same time, and
| shall be collected by the county collector
in the same manner and under the same
regulations and restrictions as are pre-
scribed by law in relation to the collection
of other county taxes, and which are here
by made applicable to the collection of the
school tax imposed by this act, and when
collected shall be paid to the treasurer of
the Levy Court, who is hereby constituted
and appointed treasurer of the primary
school fund for said county, and who shall
qualify by making oath or affirmation that
he will well and faithfully discharge the
duties required of him by law as treasurer
of the school fund for said county, and not
use the same TO his own use or advantage
and he shall also give bond to the United
States, with two good and sufficient sureties,
conditioned for the faithful discharge of
the duties required of him By this act,
which bond, being approved By the COM
missioners of primary schools aforesaid,
shall be fled with the Clerk of the Circuit
Court of the District of Colum bia, who is
hereby required 10 file the same without
fee or reward, and copy of the said bond,
under seal of said court, shall be sufficient
evidence of the making thereof
SEC. IA. And be IL further enacted, That
it shall be the duty of the trustees of each
school district, whenever district meeting
shall have Ested a sufficient tax for that
purpose, to purchase q suitable site for their
school house, and to build, keep in repair,
and furnish such school-house with neces-
sary fuel, books, stationery. and append
ages; and it shall he the further duty of
the trustees aforesaid 10 agree with and
employ all teachers to be employed in such
district: Provided, That no teachers shall
be employed by them who shall not have
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the commissioners of primary schools afOre-
said, and hereinbefore provided; and it
shall be the further duty of the trustees to
pay tue salaries of teachers out of the ap-
pOrtionment of the school fund for their
respective districts which shall come into
their hands through the commissioners
Aforesaid, so far as the same shall be sufHi-
cient for that purpose.
Sec. Is. AHd be jt further enacted, That
before tie trust -es OF any school district
shall enter upon the duties of their office,
they shall each take an oath or make af-
firmation before justice of the peace of
said county, or one of the commissioners
of primary schools who is hereby author
lied 10 administer the same, that he will
well and truly discharge the duties per-
tanning to his said Office of trustee, without
prejudice or parliality, and according TO
law; and it shall be the duty of the said
trustees of each of said school districts, or
a majority of them, to furnish, at the ex-
piratIon of their term of service, to the
commissioners Aforesaid, a correct statement
of all money transactions done by them in
virtue of their office as trustees of said
primary school district.
SEC. I6. And be it further enacted That
it shall be the duty of the commissioners
of primary schools aforesaid to apportion
all moneys which shall come into the hands
of the treasurer of the school fund aforesaid,
under and by virtue of the provisions of
this act, after paying the salaries of the
clerk of the commissioners and the treas
urer of the school fund, for the use of prim-
ary schools aforesaid, as soon as may be
after such moneys shall be received by the
said treasury, equally among the several
school districts in said county which shall
have complied with the provisions of this
act; and all moneys so to be apportioned
by the commissioners, as aforesaid, shall be
caused to be paid by them, according to
such apportionmeut, 10 the trustees of the
district TO which such moneys shall be ap-
portioned as aforesaid, whose receipts there
for shall be good and sufficient evidence Of
such payment, which moneys, so to be re-
ceived by the trustees, as aforesaid, shall
be applied and expended by them, after the
appoftionment for tbs first year, In paying
the salaries of the teachers to be employed
by them, and for no other purpose: Pro
0ided, That no moneys apportioned, as afore-
said, except the apportionment made for the
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habitants, and the trustees of the district
to which such moneys shall be appor-
toned, as aforesaid, shall have substan-
TALLY complied with The provisions of this
act: And provided further, That it shall not
be lawful for the commissioners aforesaid
to draw any moneys from the hands of the
treasurer of the school fund aforesaid, after
psying the salaries of the clerk of the COM
missioners and the treasurer of the school
fund aforesaid, except by draft, in favor of
the trustees of the school district to which
such moneys shall be apportioned as afore-
said; and all moneys which shall be ap-
portioned by the commissioners as afore-
said. and which shall remain unpaid for the
space of two years thereafter, either from
the omission or neglect of the trustees of
the primary school district entitled to re-
ceive the same, to eppIy therefor and to
make The necessary certificates to entitle
them to the same, or from any defect in
such certificates, said money shall, after the
expiration of said term, be added to the
moneys next thereafter to be apportioned
by the said commissioners and shall be ap-
portioned and paid together with such
moneys as aforesaid.
Sec. II. And be it further enacted, That
oaob district shall