The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1863-01-10

consisting of director. clerk and treas
urer.
Sec. 81. The board of directors provided
in the preceding section shall, in ali matters
relating to the graded schools, possess all
the powers and discharge all the like duties
of the district board of directors, as pre-
scribed in this act.
Sec. IS. The union district, thus formed,
shall be entitled to an equitable share of the
school funds, to be drawn from the treasurer
ofeach district so uniting. in proportion to
the number Of children attending the said
graded school, for each district.
Sec. sc. The said union district may levy
taxes for the purpose of purchasing build
ing, or furnishing proper buildings for the
accommodation of the school, or for the pur
pose of defraying necessary expenses and
nay;ng teachers. but shall be governed. in
all respects, by the law herein provided for
levying and collecting district taxes.
Sec. 81. The clerk of the union district
shall report, in writing, to the treasurer of
each school district uniting in the union dis
trict, the number of the scholars attending
the graded school from his district, their
sex. and the branches studied; and the said
district treasurer shall apportion the amount
of school money due the union district, and
pay the same over to the treasurer of the dis
trict, on order of the clerk and director
thereof.
Sec. SO. The clerk of the union district
shall make a report to the county superin-
tendent of public instruction, and discharge
all the duties of clerk, in like manner as the
clerk of the district.
Sec. SO. The treasurer Of the union dis
trict shall perform all the duties of treasurer,
as prescribed in this act, in like manner as
the district treasurer.
Sec. 70. The public schools of any city,
town or village, which may be regulated by
special law, set forth in the charter of such
city, town or village, shall be entitled to re-
ceive their proportion of the public school
fund: Provided, The clerk of the board of
education in such city, town or village,
shall make due report within the time and
manner prescribed in this act, to the county
superintendent of public instruction.
Sec. II. Any single district shall possess
power to establish graded schools, subject
to the provisions of this article in like man
ner as two or more districts united.
ARTICLE vTI.-THE DISTRIBUTION OF THE
INCOME OF THE SCHOOL FUND.
Sec. r. The income of the State school
fund, and the annual taxes collected by the
State for the support of schools, which
shall be received up to the first dsE7f JAM
uary of each year, shall be distributed an
nually, between the first day of February
and the first day of March, in each year,
among the several counties of the State,
from which reports have been received by
the State superintendent of public instruc-
ton, in proportion to the number of chill
dren resident therein, over the age of FIVE
and under the age of twenty-one years.
Sec. 70. The treasurer of each county
shall apply for and receive of the State
treasurer, the school moneys appropriated
to his county, as soon as the same shall be-
come payable.
Sec "a. Each county treasurer receiving
such moneys, shall, upon proper application
of the district treasurer of any district, pay
over to the said district treasurer the
amount apportioned to the district by the
county superintendent.
| Sec. IS. The county treasurer shall col
lect all moneys due the county for school
purposes, from fines, forfeitures or proceeds,
| from the sale of estrays, and all moneys
paid by persons as equivalent for exemp-
ton from military duty, and he shall pay
over the same to the said district treasurer,
as prescribed in the preceding section. He
shall also collect the delinquent taxes on
real estate, in any district, in the same
manner as county taxes are collected, when
ever such delinquent tax list shall have been
| lawfully reported and returned to him, and
he shall pay the same over to the treasurer
OF the district to which such delinquent taxes
are due; and, if any county treasurer shall
refuse to deliver over to the order of the
county superintendent any school money
in his possession, or shall use, or permit tc
be used, for any other purpose than is spe'
CITED in this act, any school money IN his
possession, he shall, on conviction thereof
be adiudged guilty of misdemeanor, and
be punished by fine not exceeding five
hundred dollars. or by Imprisonment in the
county jail not exceeding one year.
Sec. rs. For the purpose of affording The
advantages of free education to the chill
dren of the State, the State annual schoo
fund shall consist of the annual income de-
rived from the interests and rents of the
perpetual school fund, as provided in th,
constitution of the State, and such sum az
will be produced by the annual levy and as
sessment of one mill upon dollar valuation
of the taxable property of the State, and there
is hereby levied and assessed annually, the
said one mill upon the dollar, for the sup
port of common schools In the State; anC
the amount so levied and assessed shall b
collected in the same manner as other State
taxes.
/ Sec. II. The State treasurer shall reeeivt
all the annual income of the State appropri
ated for the annual support of schools
whether derived from the interests of mon
eys loaned, rents of school lands or ennua