Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-02-11
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Sec, 80 The county commissioners
court shall appoint n presiding officer
TO hold said election, who shall max Q
due return thereof as Is required by
law for holding "A general election, and
all persons who favor taxation for
school purposes shall have written or
printed on their tickeis "for school
tax, n'and all persons opposed to such
taxation shall have written or printed
on their tickets against school taxi
Sec. SO. All persons who are legal
qualified voters of the state and county
OF his residence and who are resident
property tax payers In said district, as
shown by the last assessment roll of
the county, shall be entitled to vote in
any school district election, and If at
any such election two-thirds of such
qualified voters voting at such election
shall vote for the tax, " shall be de-
clured by the county commissioners
court to have carried in said district,
and be so entered upon the records of
said court to have been carried, and in
all cases the returning officer shall
make n full and complete return as In
other elections to said court within live
days after said election Is held, and said
returns shall be opened and counted at
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result declared.
Sec. 81. Anyone present may chal-
lenge Il voter, but If the challenged
voter takes an oath that he is quail
fled voter of the state and 'coun-
ty, and that he is resident property
tax payer In said district, he shall be
entitled To vote.
Sec. 3d. All polls for school district
elections shall be opened mt ten O'Clock
a. m, and shall not be closed before
four o'clock p. M, and none of theofli-
GERS holding such elections shall be en-
titled to compensation therefor
Sec. 49, All trustees for school dis.
tricts shall be elected by the qualified
voters ut school district meeting for
that purpose, on the first Saturday of
August of each year, except rs herein
after provided. The commissioners
court shall appoint three persons to
hold such election, and shall make the
return of said election within five days
after election to the county judge; and
If no election il held, the county judge
shall at once appoint three trustees for
| said district for the ensuing year. All
persons living in the district qualified
To vote for state and county officers
shall be entitled to vote mt said cleo
ton. No person shall he eligible to
serve as school trustee who cannot
read and write.
See. 81. The trustees of school dis
tricts provided fer in the preceding
sections of this act, and their success
sors In office, shall be a body polite
aud corporate in law, and shall be
known by and under the title and
name of district trustees of district
number - and county - state of Texas,
aud ~ such may contract and be con-
tracted with, sue and he sued, plead
and be implicated in any court of this
state of proper jurisdiction, and may
receive any gift, grant, donation or de-
wise made for the use OF the public
schools of the district. All reports and
other official papers shall be headed
with the number of district and name
Of county
Sec. 3S At any time after the eX-
piTation of two years after any district
has levied "A school tax on itself, any
twenty resident property-holding tax
PAYERS aud qualified voters of the dis
trict may have AN election held TO de-
termine whether such tax shall be ah
rogated, increased or diminished by
making written application TO the
county commissioners court such elec-
ton shall he held and conducted ~
elections provided for in sec. 81 of this
act, and all resident property taX-pay- |
ing voters of said district shall be enti- |
tied to vote mt such elections. The
person holding such election shall
make return of such election within
five days to the county com
missioners court, and said court
shall, al its first meeting thereafter
open said returns and declare the re-
suit, and said court shall enter an or
| der To that effect, and shall thereafter
| levy such tax on said district rs may
| be provided for by the result of said
| election.
Sec. 80. The county commissioners
court shall mt the time of levying the
tax for county purposes, also levy upon
each school district the amount OF
taxes said district has voted upon
| itself, and it shall be the duty Of he
| tax assessor TO make separate roll for
each school district in alphabetical
order, one copy to be deposited with
| the county commissioners court ana
| the other with the tax collector, and
| the taxes levied upon the real property
! I'm said district shall be lien thereon,
and the same shall be sold for unpaid
| taxes in the manner, and at the time,
| sales occur for state and county taxes.
The tax assessor shall assess, and the
tax collector shall collect said district
taxes as other taxes. The tax assessor
| shall receive commission of one per
eentum for assessing such tax, and the
tax collector II commission of one per
centum for collecting the same. The
tax collector shall pay all such taxes to
the county treasurer and said treasurer
shall credit each school district with
the amount belonging To ii and to pay
the same as other school moneys.
Sec. 40. The scholastic census shall
be taken, by the district trustees under
the supervision Of the county judge, of
all children in each district between
the ages of eight and sixteen years,
giving name, age, color, sex and the
name Of the parent or guardian, as
may directed by the state superinten-
dent, and return the said list 10 the
county Judge by the first Monday in
June of each year. The county super
inteudent shall by the first Monday in
July thereafter aggregate the whole
number of children in the county, and
make an abstract in duplicate thereof,
one to be filed with the county clerk
and the other forwarded by him To the
state superintendent; said census rolls
shall be sworn TO by the trustees taxi
ing the census, and said abstracts 10y
the county Judge before any officer au-
thorized 10 administer oaths.
See. a.. Children within scho'
lastic age residing or be
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