Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1881-04-07

An act TO amend an act entitled An Aot TO es-
tablish system Of public instruction IRE
7isionl, approved March twenty yseventh, one
thousand eight hundred and seventy-four.
l. Be 1t enacted by the Senate and General
Assembly of the State of New Jersey, That
section seventy-seven of the act entitled &C An
act to establish system of public instruction .
JRevision1, approved March twenty-seventh,
one thousand eight hundred and seventy-four,
be and is hereby amended 80 as to read as fol-
lows:
~ And be it enacted, That for the purpose
of maintaining FREQ public schools there shall
be assessed, levied and collected annually upon
the taxable real and personal property in this
state, as exhibited BY the latest abstracts OF
ratables from the several counties, made out by
the several boards Of assessors, and filed in the
Office of the comptroller of the treasury state
school tax equal to four dollars for each child
in this state between the ages of five and eigh-
teen years, as exhibited by the next preceding
school census, which tax shall be assessed,
levied and collected at the same time and in
the same manner in which other taxes are as
sessed, levied and collected; but if the moneys
received by any township from the tax imposed
by this act shall not be sufficient to maintain
free schools for at least nine month in the year,
then the inhabitants thereof may raise by town
ship tax such additional amount as they may
need for that purpose in the same manner as
such taxes have heretofore been raised.
eight of said act be and is hereby amended so
as to read as follows:
rs. And be it enacted, That it shall be the
duty of the comptroller aforesaid to apportion
the said tax among the several counties, in pro-
portion to the amount of taxable real and per-
sonal estate of said counties respectively, as
shown by the ratables respectively as afore-
said, and it shall be his further duty to
transmit on or before the first day of April Of
each year, to the county collector of each county
a statement Of the amount Of said tax appor-
toned to and payable by said county, and said
county collector shall lay said statement before
the board of assessors Of the townships and
wards within his county at their next annual
meeting, to apportion the taxes among said
townships and wards, and said assessors shall
thereupon proceed to apportion said school
taxes as other taxes are apportioned, and to as
sess the same according to law.
s. And be it enacted, That section eighty Of
said act be and is hereby amended 60 as to read
as follows:
so. And be it enacted, That ten per centum
OF the full amount of money annually raised by
virtue of the seventy section Of this act
shall be known as a reserve fund, and shall be
apportioned among the several counties of the
state, by the state board of education, equitably
and justly, according to their own discretion,
on or before the fifteenth day of April subse-
quentiy to the aforesaid apportionment by the
cotiPd%Ater O1 the treasury, and 1t snail be the
duty of the state superintendent of public in
structlon, on or before the tenth day of Janu-
ary next ensuing said apportionment, to draw
orders on the comptroller of the treasury, and
IN favor of the county collectors, for the pay
ment of ninety per centum of the Iamount
Of school tax paid by the counties re-
spectively; and the Said county collectors shall
apply for and be entitled to receive the amount
OF said orders as soon as the same are received,
and the said superintendent shall also draw his
orders In favor of the respective county collec-
tors for such portion OF the reserve fund as
shall have been apportioned to the counties re-
spectively, as aforesaid, which orders shall be
payable when the said reserve fund has been
paid by the several counties; provided that no
portion of said moneys shall be used for the
support of sectarian schools
4 And be it enacted, That section eighty-one
of said act be and is hereby amendsd 60 as to
read as follows:
81. And be it enacted That it zhall be the
duty OF the county superintendent Of each
county to apportion annually to the districts
and cities OF his county, the state school mon
eyH, together with the interest of the surplus
revenue belonging to said county, and such
other moneys as may be raised for school pur-
poses upon the basis Of the last published school
census; provided, that all children residing in
fractional districts situated in two or more ad-
joining townships shall be included in the CEN
sus OF thattownship in which the fraction CON
tanning the school house is situated; and pro.
vided also, that no district shall receive from all
state and county funds less than two hundred
dollars; and that districts with forty-fve chill
dren or more, shall not receive less than three
hundred and fifty dollars
3. And be it enacted, That this act shah take
effect Immediately.
Approved March 16, 1881.