Pocahontas star herald., 1912-06-21

mech money paid into the credit Of such
district on account or the raoda, anI
bridges: and provided further, IL said
tax is not paid as provided, such prop
erty shall be sold in the same manner
as property Is now sold for the non
payment Of takes
Section 104. The amount OF taxes
levied in any one year by the constitutes
authorities Of any municipal corporation
for city or town purposes shall be Inn
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, win produce II
sum equal to the total taxes levied
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 a tax not exceeding the
rate levied for city or town purposes
may be levied; provided, the above liml-
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 occasioncd thereby.
Provided, that IL for any reason any
municipality did not levy a tax, the
year next preceding that rate may be
levied the current year. which when ap-
piled to the total property Of the mu-
nicipality as assessed and equaized the
current year will produce a sum 10 per
cent in excess OF the sum produced by
applying 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. Kirby S
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 period of one year. and
i'm the said county six months previous
TO said election SHALL annually on the
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 NUM-
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 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-
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
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 10. 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 Ill. Section 1907, Kirby's Di-
gest, shall be amended so 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 l12. Section 1911, Kirby's Di-
gest. shall be amended so as to read as
follows:
Section 1871. 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
voter, In addition to the name of the
person voted for as director, shah have
written or printed on ii 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
lie places in said city or town ten days
before the election designating the place
or places at which said election shall
be held.
Section 119. 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,
1S, IS, 20, 21, 22, %, 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 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, ii 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