The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1917-02-19
MASON FISCAL COURT SUED
by the County Board Of Education For
Money Due Tbem-A Total Of
S3,714.1O Asked BY Plaintiffs.

The Mason County School Board
filed suit in the Mason Circuit Court
Saturday against County Judge W. H.
Rice, Esquires Fred Bauer, Fred
Dresel, w. H. Moore, Charles Wall
ingford, w. B. Lane, w. II. Collins, ID.
Il. Bullock and ]. W. Holiday, men,
bers of the Mason Fiscal Court. The
plaintiffs are represented by Hon. J.
NJ. Collins.
The plaintiffs state that the Mason
Fiscal Court in 1914 duly and regular
ly made a levy of twenty cents on
each one hundred dollars worth of
taxable property in Mason county out
side of the limits of the city of Mays
vile for the benefit and to go to the
common school fund for Mason county
which taxes were duly collected by
the proper officers of Mason county in
the year 1911 and on all taxable prop
erty therein, including whiskey in
bonded warehouses located in Mason
county outside of the city of Mays
vile and on all taxes delinquent as
sessments collected by the Sheriff in
the year 1911. Likewise levies of
twenty cents on each one hundred
dollars were made by the fiscal court
for common school purposes in the
years 1912, 1913, 1914 and 1915.
They state that all of said levies
for the respective years were placed
in the hands of the proper officers
for collection and paid by said offic-
ers into the hands of the Treasurer
of Mason county to be duly distrib-
uted as required by law for the use
and benefit of the common school
fund for Mason county.
They state that the total sums col.
lected amounted to $10,57152. That
the sums were collected on levies Of
seventy cents for each or said years
Of which levy twenty cents or two.
sevenths thereof, was for the benefit
and use Of the common schools; thai
said two-sevenths of the fund is 49,.
I 020.44 and that same should have beer
Il paid to the Board of Education in the
4 installments in which 1t was collected
but that no part of the sums were
ever at any time paid to or for the
Board of Education and the county
has refused and failed to pay same
that the plaintiff, Board of Education
is entitled to recover in this action
the sum Of $3,020.44 together, with siA
per cent interest per annum unit
paid; that the interest on the install
ments now amounts to S45366 making
the entire amount due the Board o.
Education, $3,474.1O.
They also state that the Washing.
ton subdivision has had specia
\ levy for school purposes for the las
n five years of twenty-five cents on eacl
one hundred dollars of taxable prop
n erty in the subdivision and tha
said levies have been collected by
the Sheriff but that the Sheriff's com
missions for collecting the sums wer,
deducted from the annual sums col
lected which commissions amountn,
n to the sums of $24O, and is Justly ow
4 ing the Board of Education. The,
state that the Sheriff has made hi
annual settlements with the Ficsa
Court being duly approved by tn
court but that by error or mistak
: in the settlements this plaintiff wa
not allowed or paid the sums to whicl
1t was entitled under the levies an
that the settlements are erroneous.
The Board of Education prays tina
the court set aside the settlement
and correct same and adjudge to tn
plaintiff the sum of $3,474.10 and tn
further sum Of $24O and that the cour
order the Mason fiscal court to con
vene as such court and to appropriat
sufficient money out of the count
funds to cover this and to order tn
Treasurer of Mason county ]. B. Dul
4 rett, to pay over to the Board of Edl
J cation said above mentioned sums an