The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1914-07-31

$40 less amount paid for nails of
$1.0S, leaving s6.32 which amount was
turned over to Mr.. j. S. Granthan and
ordered turned into the general
school fund.
A statement of the pump material
necessary to be used in putting down
well at Mt. Royal colored school,
was presented and it was ordered
taht it be put down.
A request from Mrs. Mary e. Rou
that a 5000 wrrant on the Ocala dis
trict be taken up was presented and
it was agreed that this should be
done when the proceeds of the bonds
were on hand.
A deed to the new school 1t at
Citra was presented and ordered
recorded.
The legal time for the Board of
Public Instruction to file with the
Board of County Commissioners an
annual statement and name the rate
of millage to be assessed for school
purpose for the ensuring scholastic
year, the following communication
was presented to the board of county
Gentlemen: We, the
Board of Public Instruction of Marion
county, Florida, herewith make state
ment of the probable available funds
for the coming school year of 1914
1915, beginning on July /, 1914 and
closing on July l, 1915, and also the
probable necessary expenditures for
the same period We respectfully re-
quest that you order levy of five 80
mills to be made upon all thetaxable
property of Marion county for gener-
al school purposes and upon all the
taxable property in each special tax
school district of the county as per
description of districts and rate of
millage voted by the several districts
to be levied within their boundaries,
as per the trustees estimates filed
with your honorable board.
Statement of probable expendi-
lures: School lots, $50; new buildings,
$4,000; repairs, $500; furniture,
$4,000; apparatus. $500; insurance,
$3.50; janitors, $1,000; fuel, $3.50; free
books, $50; incidentals, $780, teach
ers' salaries, $4,000; salary of super
intendent, $500; per diem and mile
age of board members, $40; treasur-
ers commission, $4,000; office expens-
es, 5000; printing, $24O; examination
expenses, S125; tuition for county-line
pupils, $45; interest on old debts and
current warrants, $1250; interest on
bonds of districts issued and to be is
sued, $4750; interest on proposed
county warrants, $2160; sinking fund
for district bonds and county war
rants, $3.50. Total, $191,170.
Statement of probable available re-
sources: Proceeds from five-mill
county levy for general school fund,
$4,000; balance of county and dis
trict funds on hand, $61S5, poll taxes,
$4,000; special district taxes, $4,000;
interest on state school fund, $2015;
apportionment of one-mill state tax,
$780, tuition of county-line pupils,
SIS; examination fees, SIS; proceeds
of bonds to be issued and already is
sued by Ocala, Dunnellon and Citra
districts, $4,000; proceeds of county
warrants to be issued, $25,S40. To-
tai, $191,170.
You are also requested to order a
special levy of three mills in the
Ocala district, three mills in the Dun
mellon district and three mills in the
Citra district for the purpose of pro-
viding sinking fund and interest on
district bonds issued and to be is
sued"
All accounts, after being properly
addicted, were ordered paid from the
county and district funds respective
ly
Mr.. A. Hercules, representing the
American Seating Company, called
and made an engagement to appear
ON Thursday with samples of desks
and chairs, to secure orders for the
new buildings in Ocala and Dunnel
lon.
The hour of p. m. having arrived,
and it being the time advertised for
the opening of bids on the sale of
100000 in county school warrants,
this matter was discussed, and it was
ascertained that there were no salts
factory bids for the same.
1t was arranged to pay interest on
bonds held by the different banks of
the city, and to negotiate loan OF
$500 with Mr.. w. J. Edwards for one
year at Z per cent. interest, payable