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LAWS PASSED AT THE SES
SION or THE BOARD OF ED
OCATION HELD IN DECEM-
BER, 1861.
Office Of the Secretary of the Board of Education
DEsMoINEs, Iowa, December 2Gth, 1861.

| Office Of the Secretary of the Board of Education
DEsMolNEs, Iowa, December 2Gth, 1861.
AN ACT
TO ronder District Townships liable for the
debts of old Districts, and to enable them
to sue in certain cases
See. 1. Be ii enacted By the Board of Ed
ucGt1oa Of tie State Of IoUa, That a District
Township shall be liable for all the debts and
liabilities existing against any District on the
18th of March, A. D. 1858 which now
forms a sub District of the District Town
ship.
See. 3. It shall be the duty Of the Board
of Directors to audit and allow all claims for
such debts and liabilities: and when any
such claim is allowed either by the Board, or
by Judgment rendered against the Dis
trict Township, it shall be the duty of the
Board to levy a tax for the payment OF such
claim or Judgment, in the same manner as
though a school house or other tax had been
voted
Sec. 3. The Board may discriminate in the
levy of said tax according to the very right
Of each particular case and in doing so, any
sub.djstrict OR part of a sub-district in the
District may be required to pay the greater
portion, or all Or no part Of said tax, as the
Board may determine, according to the cqu-
ty and justice of the case
Sec 4. Should any part of the territory
comprising the debtor District on the 10Th Of
March, 1858, not now form a part Of said
District as a sub-dlstrict, but form part Of
a new sub-district in another District Town
ship, it is hereby made the duty of the Board
of such last ed District Townships to
audit and allow to said debtor District, so
made liable by this act, such part of the in
debtedness of the original District aforesaid
as right and justice would determine.
Sec. ). II the two Boards cannot agree.
the County superintendent shall decide, and
the amount so found by him shall stand as a
liability of such debtor District Township to
the District Township first named in this
Act.
Sec. 6. A District Township is hereby
authorized to sue for and collect all debts
and demands due any School District as or
ganizcd on the l2th Of March, 1858, which
now forms o sub District in said District
Township.
Sec. 7. When any old School District as
organized On the 9Th Of March aforesaid
shall not now form sub-District in any Dis
trict Township, the District Township con-
tanning q greater portion than any other Dis
trict Township Of such old School District
shall be deemed the proper District Town
ship to sue for the collect the demands and
debts due such OLD School District, and is
also liable to be sued for the debts and ia-
hlities Of such District
Sec. 8. In The case contemplated in the
preceding section, the County Supcrntend-
ent shall decide as between the District
Townships containing any part of the terrific
ry Of such old School District what part
each District Township shall receive. and
what amount each shall pay, Of the amount
due to or due from the District Township
mentioned in said section, as equity and
justice shall seem to determine Provsded,
the District Boards may determine by their
joint agreement the entire subjest of This Sec
ton.
NICHOLAS j. RUsCH,
President Of the Board Of Education.