Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-04-27

each year: Provided, such Judge or county
superintendent shall have made to the
state superintendent of public instruction
all reports required of him by law in re-
spect TO any matters appertainine to public
free schools Of his county; and the com.
missioners' court shall not approve nor
shall the county treasurer pay the voucher
Of any county judge or county superin-
tendent for his compensation herein men,
toned until such judge or county superin-
tendent shall exhibit to said court and
treasurer an acknowledgement of the re-
ceipt by such state superintendent
of such reports, which receipts shall show
the amount Of compensation due the county
judge or county superintendent as herein
provided; and It shall be unlawful for the
commissioners court to approve any
voucher, or the county treasurer to pay any
voucher, in excess of the amount certified
by the said state superintendent of public
instruction. as due said county judge or
county superintendent
Sec. 6. The county superintendent or
county judge, upon the receipt of the GER
tiicate issued by the board of education for
the state fund belonging TO his county shall
apportlon the same TO the several school
districts and communities mot including
the Independent school districts of the
county,, making pro rata distribution as
per the scholastic census, and shall at the
same time apportion the income arising
from the county school funds to all the
school districts and communities, including
the independent school districts OF the
county, making pro rata distribution sSs
per scholastic census. ~
1t shall be the duty of the county Superin-
tendent or county judge upon receiving no.
tice from the county treasurer of the
amount of school fund set apart for that
month. to Immediately apportion the same
to all the districts and communities Of the
county according to the scholastic census of
each, 1t shall also be his duty to keep an
account with each district, and he shall in
no case approve any voucher drawn against
the school fund of Il district unless there be
sufficient funds in the hands OF the treas
urer to the credit OF said district to pay the
same.
Chapter VII, Sec. Z, of the school laws
OF 1889 has been amended to read as follows ::
Sec. Z. The treasurers of the several coun-
ties shall be treaSurers of the available
public school fund and also of the perma-
nent county school fund for their respective
counties. The treasurers OF the several
counties shall be allowed for receiving and
disburSing the school funds 4 of l per cent
for receiving and Is of l per cent for dis
bursting, said commissions to be paid out of
the available school fund of the county.
Provided. no commissions shall be paid for
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his predecessor or for turning over the
balance in his hands to his successor; and
provided further, that he shall receive no
commissions on money transferred.
Within twenty days after the receipt of
q certificate of his election it shall be
the duty of the county treasurer to exc
cute bond, with two or more good and
sufficient Sureties, for the faithful per-
Torrance of his duties under this chapter;
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amount of available school fund and of the
permanent county fund which may come
into his hands, to be estimated by the
county superintendent, and shall be made
payable and conditioned as prescribed IN
article 909 1881, Revised Statutes of Texas.
Upon receipt of the certificate from the
state board of education, duly counter
signed by the comptroller, showing the
pro rata of the available school fund
to which his county is entitled under the
appointment, the county treasurer shall
present the same to the collector of taxes
for his county, who shall pay TO the county
treasurer on the first day of each month all
school taxes that have come into his hands
during the preceding month, until the
comptroller's coupon draft on the collector
is paid up The treasurer shall indorse the
amounts so paid by the collector on the
proper coupon, and shall also execute and
for such payments; and when the whole
amount of such coupon shall have been paid
the county treasurer shall deliver the same
TO the collector, in whose hands it shall be
q voucher for SO much money paid in his
settlement with the comptroller OF public
accounts. In case the state school tax shall
not suffice to pay off the apportionment to
the county, the county treasurer shall on
receipt Of notice from the state Superin-
of no which he maid
by the state treasurer on the apportion-
ment to his county enter upon the proper
coupon the amount so signified, and present
the same for collection to the comptroller
Of public accounts. When the entire
amount of the apportionment to the
county shall have been paid the
county treasurer shall deliver the certi-
fcate Of apportionnent. receipted In full, to
the state treasurer. The county treasurer,
upon receiving notice from the state super
intendent of the amount apportioned to his
shall report the same to the county
who shall imme-
diately apportion the same to
the several districts and school
according to the scholastic
and the county superintendent sh4e
notify the county treasurer of
the amount apportioned to each district
and school community. 1t shall also be
the duty Of the county treasurer to keep
a separate account with each district and
school community, showing the amount APP
portioned according to the certificate of
the amount set apart
monthly to the credit of each district and ,
school community by the county superin!S
tendent, and the amount paid out to each
school district and school communities:
Provided. in no case shall the county
treasurer pay any part of the school fund
without the approval of the county super
.ntendent.
All balances of tbs general fund not ap-
for the current year shall be
carried over by the treasurer as part of the
general fund for the county for the succeed
ing year, and balances uneXpended or APP
for school community or dis
trict shall be carried over for the benefit of
such school community or district ii the
be reorganized for the following
year, and if it be not reorCanized shall be
added to the general fund for distribution
for the general benefit of the county at
arge.
All the schools. both white and colored,
n the same district and school communities
shall be maintained the same length of
line, rs near as may be.
All law and parts of laws in conflict with
his act are heYPy repealed.
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