The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1901-08-16
SCHOOLS
IN A DILEMMA
No Levy Made for Their
Maintenance Nor Pay Of
C0lOred Teachers

/ people in Logan county may have "a hard
road to travel financially during the com.
/ Ing year as an teachers and other ems
ployocs must look TO their respective dis
tricts for their salaries
I The running expenses of the separate
/ schools have outgrown the appropra-
l tions by the county commissioners, un-
/ an now the separate school fund Is
minus quantity by several thousand dol
ars. no meet the necessary running eX-
/ penses for the coming school year and
\ 10 dctray am expenses it would have been
/ necessary FOR the county board Of come
/ missioners az its july meeting had he
Z board been appraised OF the fact t1 have
I made a three mill levy instead OF the
one-haf mill levy that was made.
The separate schools OF Guthrie. when
| IL was discovered that the levy would
not hc sufficient employed Judge Geo.
I - Green TO make am investigation Of the
matter I'm order TO mandamus the county
/ board TO compel it To raise the levy for
this fund TO thrtC mills.
Judge Green brought the matter before
I the county board and county clerk and an
I opinion WAS asked OF the county attorney
| NJ. DcvcrcauN handed down an opinion
holding that lt would hc iuega, for the
! levy TO be raised, in that the estimates
for the separate schools were not report ed
by the various districts TO the county
| board before the annual levy was made.
The decision puts tho separate schools
ON their own resources for the coming year
but when the next annual levy Is made
an appropriation viii doubtless be made
sufficient to put these schools on cash
basis
Following is the opinion In fun as hand
ed down by Deputy County Attorney John
Devereauk ON the matter.
IN RE-SEpARATE SCHOOLS
Oh. y. Art g. Sec. /, Laws 1901, provides,
that In all counties separate schools for
white ana colored children are establish
ed. and the board of county commissions
ers shall annually levy a tax on all tax
able property In their respective counties
/ IN oils fufV rffh .r.l ~
schools.
Section 6, of the same act provides, that
the school districts shall furnish all
schools with the same kind Of furniture
and equipment. and give equal school fa
I cNties TO both white and Colored child
rem az the expense of the school dis
/ trict except as otherwise provided In this
act
Sections Z and 8. provide for the erection
of school houses for separate schools, 60
be paid for by the county out Of the sc-
paratc school fund
Section provides FOR the payment OF
the teachers Of separate schools by the
county out Of the separate school fund.
This act took effect on March s, 1891.
Under the provisions OF this act, the
county Is required to pay only two Items
of expense for the separate schools First
for building school houses. under the
provision OF sections and 8, and second,
the payment Of teachers under section 8.
No question has arisen In regard to the
erection OF separate school houses, and 1
do not consider this matter ~, this opin.
ion. In regard to the paymenl Of teach
ers In the separate schools section 10
provides as follows
THAT at the regular April meeting each
/ year OF the board OF county commissions
l ers. the school district boards ol all school
districts maintaining separate schools for
I white and cOlored children shall make n
settlement with the board of county com
missioners of their counties, which settle
| ment shall show Che amount OF money
y drawn for them ont of such NHnnTNtn
school fund and such 9TH
or facts as the board OF county commits
sioneus may desire 10 know, anu file there
with "a statement of their needs for the
ensuing year. and any school board that
fails 70 make such tttlement before the
time 60 estimate Ga igVy for annual tax
es, shall be- required 90 pay their own
expenses. of an kinds for separate schools
for the next ensuing year.
am informed tnat mo- school district
i'm Logan county has compiled with the
provisions of this secucu, ana in the alb
sence of the Information, winch b was
The object OF this section To furnish, the
county board made "a levy OF only once
half mill for the year 1901
Ny opinion Is now asked on Two ques-
tions.
First. can the county board now increase
this levy, and second in view of the pro-
isions of section 10. IS the county now ha-
bile for the payment of teachers in amy of
the separate schools in Logan county
First have the commissioners the pow
ar now 20 Increase this lcvyt ] think II
clear thnt they have no auch power The
u l.ete intention of section 10. above
SET out. is to furnish the county commi
sioners the necessary information 90 guide
them in making the separate school ievy
You viii notice that this Information must
be furnished before the board makes its
ertimate for the levy of taxes FOR the cure
rent year 40 such Information being fur
u.shed. the county board only made an
estimate for ouc-half mill levy.
Art p Sec 2 Ch 40 Laws of 1906 proc
I vidcs. "such estimate shall contain The
. forcaoiug uems. together with the este
mated amount of necessary revenue TO-
7 be raised tor ench fuud and the rate OF
\ levy necessary to raise such revenue f1r
each fund separate ID shall Doc entered at
large by the cummiamoutrs upon their
Z records and shall bc published in two
. successive weekly issues iu gome news
paper published iu The county, on II none
be- published ln ttg county, then iu some
newspaper OF general circulation therein,
+ ana no ltvy OF taxes shall Doe made for