The Huttig news., 1912-06-01

i mech money paid into the credit of such l district on account of the. raods, and l bridges: and. provided further if said i tax is not paid as provided, such prop erty shall be sold in the sanle manner i as property is now sold for che non payment of taxes.
 Section 104 The amount of taxes l levied in any ore year by the constituted 1 authorities of any municipal corporation 1 for city or town purposes shall be linn 1 ited to that number of mills on the dol l lar Which, when applied to the total property of the city town as assessed and capitalized that year. will produce q 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 limi- tatious shall not be construed to pro | hibit assessments on property adjacent to improvements made in any city or l town fer the purpose of paying the cost thereof and damages occasioned thereby. | Provided, that if for any reason any | municipality did not levy a tax. the 1 year next preceding that rate may be | levied the current year which when ap- 1 piled to the total property of the mu- | nieipality as assessed and capitalized 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 equalized such next preceding year. l Section 165. Section 75SS. Kirby's Digest. shall be amended as to read | as follows:
 Section 75SS The male residents in each organized school district in this State. orer the age of twenty-one years i who have paid their poll taxes and re the State for 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 1 o'clock P. M hold a meeting to be desig- mated, "The Annual School Meeting of l 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 i of the several school districts and muni- eipalities 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 munich | pa1ities provided by section f04 hereof | he shall determine the maximum rate | that can be levied the current year in l 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 rnuni- ! cipality Likewise to each school board | in the county, the clerk shall on said 1 date certify out the total value for that | year of the real and personal property l in such school district.
 Section 107. Section 6S93 Eirbys Di- gest, shall be amended so as to read as | follows:
 Section GS9s. The taxes that may be i levied by authority of any law in any | township school district shall be l made and certified by the proper officer or person to the clerk of the county | vember in each year.
 Section 110. Section 75ee. Kirby's Di- gest. shall be amended so as 10 read as | follows:
 Section 7596. The electors of every l common school district shall when law fully assembled in annual school dis triet 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 ity in textbooks.
 Section Ill. Section 76o7. Kirby's Di- gest, shall be amended so as to read as Section 76o7. At the annual schoo meeting held on the fourth Saturday il October there shall be elected by th' rector, who shall hold his office for 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 triet 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. Kirbys Di- gest. 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 1 voter, in addition to the name of the I person voted for as director. shall have 1 written or printed on it for tax or
 against tax. and the rate the voter | desires levied. provided. in incorporated towns and cities of the second class the l election may be held at one or more of l 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 l be held.
 Section 11s. It shall be the duty of | the assessor all necessary blank lists 1 for assessing the real and personal property as required by sections 16, lS IS, 20. 21, 22, 25. and 27 hereof. said blank lists to be prepared upon such forms as may be approved by the Ar l kansas Tax Commission The expenses l 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 1 district In this State whether ted | by general 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 made by the county assessor in the same manner as State, county, munich pal and school taxes are levied and col. | lected, it shall be lawful for the board of inspectors. board of directors or the 1 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 1 for the year 1911.
 Section 115. Whoever being a mem | Der of the Arkansas Tax Commission or an assessor or a member of the board