Pocahontas star herald., 1912-07-05

mech money paid into the credit OF sucn
district on account or the faous, au1
bridges; and provided further, II sala
tax is not paid as provided, such propr
erty shall be sold In the same manner
as property is now sold for the nom
payment of taxes.
Section tOi. The amount of taxes
levied in any one wear by the constitutes
authorities OF any InGnicipal corporation
for city or town purposes shall pc llia-
tied 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, VIII produce ~
sum equal to the total taxes leNleu
against the property of the city or town
for municipal purposes the year next
preceding plus ten per cent of said total
taxes.
For paying all indebtedness existing
at the time OF the adoption of the pres
ent Constitution tax not exceeding the
rate levied for city or town purposes
may be levied provided the above llml-
tations shall not be construed TO pro-
hibit assessments on property adjacent
to improvements made in any city or
town for the purpose OF paying the cost
thereof and damages occasiOned thereby.
Provided. that If for any reason any
municipality did not levy tax, the
year next preceding that rate may be
levied the current year, which when ap-
piled to the total property OF the mu-
nicpality as assessed and equalized the
current year will produce a sum 10 per
cent in excess of the sum produced by
APPLYING a rate of five mills on the
dollar to the property within such mu
nicipal corporation as assessed and
euualized such next preceding year.
Section 1O5. Section 1888, Kirby's
Digest, shall be amended SO as TO read
as follows:
Section 1888. The male residents in
each organized school district in this
sNf4 rat,Hy xrasafse
who have paid their poll taxes and re-
sided therein for thirty days, and within
the State for a period of one year, and
in 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 desig-
mated, The Annual School Meeting of
the District" and each school district
for the purpose of school elections alone
shall be a political township.
Section 1O6 On or before the goth
day of October each year, the county
clerk of each county in the State shall
ascertain the total value of the real and
personal property. as equalized in each
of the several school districts and muni-
cipalities 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 muniei-
palities provided by section l04 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-
thorities Of each municipality the maxi
mum 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 lO7. Section GS93. Kirbys Di-
gest, shall be amended SO as to read as
follows:
Section 68s3. The taxes that may be
| 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
court before the first Monday in No
| vember in each year.
Section 1lO. Section 1886, Kirbys Di-
gest, shall be amended so as to read as
| follows:
Section 1896. 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 iii. Section 1907, Kirbys Di-
Eest, shall be amended 80 as to read as
| follows:
Section 1907. 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 di-
| 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 a 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 1874, Kirbys Di-
! gest, shall be amended so as to read as
| follows
Section 1911. 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" OF
! against tax" and the rate the voter
| desires levied; provided, in incorporated
towns and cities of the second class the
election may be held at one or more OF
| the voting places therein, and not i'm
each ward if the board OF directors shall
so direct by notices posted in three pub
| 'lic places in said city or town ten days
before the election designating the place
Tor places at which said election shall
ibe 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
lS, l9, 20, 81, 22, rs, and % 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 a
| levee or drainage tax is levied and col
| lected on the assessment of the prop
,erty in the district as the same is
i made by the county assessor in the
4 same manner as State, county, munich
| pal and school taxes are levied and col,
4 lected it shall be lawful for the board
4 of inspectors, board Of directors or the
4 governing body OF the district by what
| ever name known to meet at the usual
! meeting place of such body in such dis
4 trfct 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