Charles City intelligencer. [volume] (Charles City, Floyd County, Iowa) 1864-1866, 1864-09-22


have the same rights with respect to
colorcd schools.
Sec. II. And be it further enacted,
That it shall be the duty of the said
commissioners to provide suitable and
convenient houses or rooms for hold
ing schools for colored children, to en-
ploy and examine teachers therefor,
and to appropriate proportion Of the
school funds, to be determined by the
numbers of white and colored children
between the ages of six and seventeen
years, to the payment of teachers
wages, to the building or renting of
school-rooms and other necessary ex-
penses pertaining to said schools, to
exercise general supervision over
them, to establish proper discipline,
and to endeavor to promote d thor
ough, equitable, and practical educa-
ton of colored children in said county.
1t shall be lawful for such commission
ers to impose tax of not more than
fifty cents per month for each child on
the parents or guardians of children
attending said schools, to be applied
to the payment of expenses of the
school of which said child shall be an
attendant; and in the exercise of this
power tho commissioner may, from
time to time, discontinue the payment
altogether, or may graduate the tax
according to the ability of the said
Taxpayers aud the wants of the school
Prorided, That no child shall be exclu
ded from such school on account of
the inability of the parent or guardian
to pay said tax. And said commits
sioners are authorized to receive any
donations or contributions that may
be made for the benefit of said schools
by persons disposed to aid in the ele-
walton of the colored population in the
District of Columbia, and to apply the
same in such maner as in their opin-
ion shall be best calculated to effect
the object of the donors, said commits
sioners being required to account for
all funds received by them, and to re-
port to the levy court in accordance
with the provisions of section nine Of
this act.
Sec. Is. And be it further enacted,
That the first section of the act Of
Congress entitled Gan act providing
for the education of colored children
in the cities of Washington and
Georgetown, District of Columbia, and
for other purposes" be, and the same
is hereby, repealed and that from
and after the passage Of this act it
shall be the duty of the municipal au-
thorities Of the cities of Washington
and Georgetown, in the District Of
Columbia, to set apart each year,
from the whole fund, received from
all sources, by such authorities appli.
cable, under existing prvisions of law
to purposes Of public education, such
q proportionate part thereof as the
number of colored children, between
the ages of six and seventeen years,
i'm the respective cities bear to the
whole number of children thereof, for
the purpose of establishing and sus-
tanning public schools in said cities
for the education of colored children !;
that the said proportion shall be as
certained by the last reported census
of the population of said cities made
prior to said apportionment, and shall
be regulated at all times thereby /;
and that the said fund shall be paid to
the trustees appointed under the act
of Congress approved July eleven,
eighteen hundred and sixty-two, enti-
tied +" An act relating to schools for
the education of colored children in
the cities Of Washington and George
town, in the District Of Columbia" to
be disbursed by them in accordance
with the provisions of the said act.
Sec. 10. And be it further enacted,
That one-fourth part of all the moneys
now in the hands of the marshal of
the District of Columbia, or of any
other officer of said District, which
have accrued from fines, penalties, and
forfeitures imposed for the violation
Of the laws of the United Stats within
said District, shall he by such officer
or officers paid to the Board of Com
missioners of Primary Schools of
Washington County, District of CO.
lumbia,' one-fourth part to the Mayor
Of the city Of Georgetown, and the re-
naming two.fourths- thereof to the
Mayor of the city of Washington, the
said sums SO paid to the said commits
sioners and the said mayors to consti-
tute in their hands funds for the sup
port Of primary schools within the said
county and public schools in said
cities in the proportions aforesaid
And it shall be the duty of said mar
shall and other officers to pay over,
every three months, from and after the
passage of this act, all money coming
into their hands in the manner afore-
said, to the said board of commission
ers of primary schools and to the said
mayors, in the proportions aforesaid,
for the use of the said primary and
public schools, any law to the contra
ry Notwithstanding Prorided, That
the funds thus obtained for education
al purposes shall be applied to the
education of both white and colored
children, in the proportion Of the NUN.
bers Of each between the ages of six
and seventeen years as determined by
the latest census report that shall
have been made prior to said appor-
tionmcnt and the mayors of the
aforcnamed cities of Georgetown and
Washington are hereby authorized
and instructed to pay over such part
thereof as may be applicable under
the provisions Of this section and the |
proviso thereto to the education OF |
colored children in the aforenamed
cities. to the trustees appointed under
the act Of July eleventh, eighteen hun.
dred and sixty-two, entitled San act
relating to schools for the education
Of colored children in the cities of
Washington and Georgetown, in the
District Of Columbia" to be used for
the education of colorcd children ac-
cording to the provisions Of law, and
tie aforenamed officers failing to pay
over the moneys as aforesaid shall be
liable to the penalty imposed by the
second section of the act of Congress
approved July twelfth, eighteen hun
dred and sixty-two, entitled An act