Year: 1862




Sec. Is. lind be il further enacted That
II any trustee of any primary school dis
tFict shall make a false certificate or report,
by means whereof any moneys shall be
trauduiently obtained from the commis-
sloners aforesaid, such trustee signing such
certificate or report shall forfeit and pay
double the amount so fraudulently obtained
to the commissioners of primary schools, to
be recovered, Nth costs of suit, by action
of debt before any court of justice, or any
justice of the peace having cognizance there
of in the name of said commissioners and
such sum, exclusive oftle cost of suit, shall
be applied, when recovered, to the use of
the primary school in such district.


Sec. l9. ARd be it further enacted, That
the said trustees shall keep an account of
their proceedings in book kept for that
purpose, and shall also keep an account
against the district collector for the sums
authorized 10 be collected, and for other
Sums paid into his bands, and shall give
him credit for the sums legally paid by him,
also for his legal commissions. and for such
taxes as cannot be collected by legal steps
and proper diligence aud that said collect
or shall have the keeping Of all moneys
collected by him, and other sums paid into
his hands, subject to the written order of a
majority of the tIuetees, drawn in favor of
such persons having claims against said
school district, and be shall report to the
trustees, whenever required, the amount of
funds in his hands and full statement of
his accounts.


Sec. 20. And be 10 further enacted, That
the trustees of any primary school district
in said county shall be and they are hereby
authorized, in their discretion, to require
from any child attending school the pay
ment of any sum of money not exceeding
one dollar a month, to be applied to the
payment of the expenses of said district
school; and in the exercise of this power
the trustees aforesaid may, from time to
time, discontinue the payment thereof alto
gether, or may graduate tbe payments ac-
cording to the ability of the children aud
the exigencies of the school.


Sec. 81. AHd be IL fHrttef enacted, That
it shall be the duty OF the trustees of each
school district, whenever a district meeting
shall have voted district tax, as soon as
may be, to make rate bill or tax list which
shall raise the sum voted for, in due pro-
portion on all the taxable property in such
district, agreeably TO the assessment of the
last preceding county tax, and to annex 10
such tax list or rate bill warrant, and to
deliver the same TO the collector of such dis
tsict, which warrant shall be substantially
as follows:


i" COUNTY OF WASHINGTON, D. O., IS.


To collector of the
district in the county aforesaid, greeting:
You are hereby required and commanded
to collect from each of the Inhabitants of
said district the several sums of money writ
ten opposite to the name of each of said in
habitants in the annexed tax list, and with
in sixty days after receiving this warrant to
pay the amount of the moneys by You col
Iected 10 the order of the trustees Of said
district or a majority of them and If any
one or more of said inhabitants shall neg
lect or refuse to pay the same, you are
hereby further commanded to levy on the
goods and chattels of each delinquent, and
make sale thereof according to law. Given
under our hands and seals this - day