The Forrest City times., 1912-07-05


 tax Is not paid as provided such prop erty shall he sold in the same manner as property is now sold for the non payment of taxes.
 Section 1O4. The amount of taxes levied in any one year by the constitute | authorities of any municipal corporation TOT elty or town purposes shall be lim- lted to that number of mills on the dol lar which. when applied to the total property of the city or town as assessed and equalized that year. will produce T sum equal to the total taxes levied against the property of the city or town Tor municipal purposes the year next taxes
 For paying all indebtedness existing al the time of the adoption of the pres ont Constitution a tax not exceeding the rate levied for city or town purposes may be levied. provided. the above limi. thtons snail not be construed to pro hlbit assessments on property adjacent tp improvements made in any city or Town Tor the purpose of paying the cost tnefeof and damages occasoned thereby Pro&ided. that if for any reason any municipality did not levy a tax. the year next preceding that rate may be IeNled the current year which when ap- Piled to the total property of the mu- inequality as assessed and equalized the current year will produce sum 10 per cent In excess of the sum produced by Gpr'yiHS ia |" of five mills on tine dollar to the property within such mu- niciral corporation as assessed and equalized such next preceding year.
 Section 105. Section 75Ss, Kirby's as follows:
 Section 75Ss. The male residents fin each organized school district in this state. over the age of twenty-one years who have paid their poll taxes and re sided therein for thirty days. and within the State for a period of one year, and m the said county six months previous to said election shall annually on the fourth Saturday on October, at two O clock P NJ, hold a meeting to be desic- hated. The Annual School Meeting of thc District, and each school district Tor the purpose of school elections alone snail be political township
 Section 106 On or before the goth clerk of each county in the State shall ascertain the total value of the real and personal property, as capitalized In each of the several school districts and munf- Clpallties In the county. He shall de termine from the records in his office the total assessed value the year next preceding Of all the taxable property in each municipality as constituted the cur rent year. On the basis for fixing the rate to be levied in the several munici- palities provided by section 104 hereof he shall determine the maximum rate that can be levied the current year in each municipality of the county. and shall certify out to the constituted au- thorlties of each municipality the maxi iluHl rate so determined for such muni- cipality. Likewise to each school board in the county, the clerk shall on said date certify out the total value for that year of the real and personal property in such school district.
 Section 107. Section 6s93. Kirby's Di- gest, shall be amended so as to read as follows:
 Section 6S9S The taxes that may he levied by authority of any law in any township or school district shall be made and certified by the proper officer or person to the clerk of the county
 Section 110. Section 7596 Kirby's Di- gest shall be amended so as to read as follows:
 Section 75s6. The electors of every common school district shall, when law fully assembled in annual school dis trict meeting on the fourth Saturday In October, with not less than five electors present have the power. in addition to the powers already provided by law to vote on the question of county uniform ity in textbooks.
 Section Ill. Section 76o7. Kirby's Di- gest. shall be amended as to read as follows:
 Section 76o7 At the annual school meeting held on the fourth Saturday in October there shall be elected by the legal voters in the school district a d- rector, who shall hold his office for a term Of three years and until his success sor is elected and qualified Provided that at the first annual school meeting of the district after the passage of this Act three school directors shall be elect ed to hold office one, two and three years respectively; and. provided further. when new school district shall have been formed under the provisions of this Act three electors shall immediately be elected by the electors of the new dis trict and shall hold their office for one year, two and three years respectively. and until their successors have been elected and qualified as herein provided for.
 Section 112. Section 7671. Kirby's Di- eest. shall be amended so as to read as follows:
 Section 7671. On the fourth Saturday in october each year there shall be held an election at the usual voting place in each ward of all incorporated towns and cities organized into single or special school districts for the election of two directors who shall serve for three years and until their successors are elected and qualified The ballot of the voter in addition to the name of the person voted for as director. shall have written or printed on it for tax or against tax" and the rate the voter desires levied; provided. in incorpora ted towns and cities of the second class the election may be held at one or more of the voting places therein. and not in each ward, if the board of directors shall so direct by notices posted in three pub before the election designating the place or places at which said election shall be held.
 Section 113. It shall be the duty of the county clerk to furnish annually to the assessor all necessary blank lists for assessing the real and personal property as required by sections 16, IS. 19, 20, 21, %, %. and 27 hereof. said blank lists to be prepared upon such forms as may be approved by the Ar kansas Tax Commission. The expenses of furnishing said lists shall be allowed and paid by the county court as is now provided by law for payment of county ordinary expenses.
 Section IA. In any levee or drainage district in this State. whether created by general or special law in which levee or drainage tax is levied and col lected on the assessment of the prop erty fin the district as the same is made by the county assessor in the same manner as State, county munici- pal and school taxes are levied and col lected. it shall be lawful for the board of inspectors, board of directors or the governing body of the district by what ever name known to meet at the usual meeting place of such body in such dis trict at any time before the first Mon- day in November 1911. and reduce any rate of taxation which, by vote of the taxpayers of the district or by any other way provided by law for the fix ing of such rate, has been already fixed for the year 1911.