Pocahontas star herald., 1912-06-28

mech money paid into the credit of such
district on account or the raous i any
bridges; and. provided further, II said
tx Is not paid as provided, such prop
.rty shall be sold IN the same manner
as property Is now sold for the nom
pavment Of taxes.
NSection 1O4. The amount of taxes
levied in any one year by the constituted
authorities uf any municipal corporation
for city or town purposes SHAH be nm
tied 10 that number OF mills on the dol
lar which, when applied 70 tine total
property of the city or town as assessed
and eQualized that year, VIII produce q
sum equal 10 the total taxes levied
against the property of the city or town
for municipal purposes the year next
preceding plus ten per cent or sad totai
taxes.
at the time Of the adoption of the pres
ent Constitution n tax not exceeding the
rate levied for city or town purposes
may be levied; provided, the above limi-
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, winch when &p-
piled to the total property of the mu-
nicipality 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
equaliZed such next preceding year.
Section 105. Section 1888 Kirbys
Digest, shall be amended so as to read
as follows:
, Section 1883. The male residents in
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
in the said county six months previous
to said election shall, annually on the
fourth Saturday, on October at two
o'clock =. 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 1OG. On or before the Goth
day of October each year, the county
clerl. of each county in the State shall
ascertain the total value OF the real and
personal property, rs equalized in each
of the several school districts and muni-
cipalties 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
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-
thorities of each municipality the maxi
mum rate so determined for such muni-
cipalty Likewise to each school board
in the county, the clerk shall on said
dot "a Ia
year of the real and personal property
in such school district.
Section 1O7. Section 6S93, Kirby's Di-
gest, shall be amended so as to read as
Section 6S93. 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 11O. Section 1896, Kirby's 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, Kirby's Di-
gest, shall be amended so as to read as
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
gear, two and three years respectively,
and until their successors ha'" been
elected and qualified as herein provided
for
Section 112 Section 1911 Kirby's 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
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 incorporated
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
places in said town uaNS
before the election designating the place
or places at which said election shall
be held
Section 113. 1t 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 is,
lS, l9, 20, 21, %. 25, and 81 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
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
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 Wav proVide1 bV law for the fix