Year: 1866

Washington, in tie District Of Columbia, on


Mo'adly, tie second day Of December, 4. d. 1861,


and ,nded on Thu1sday the 17th day Of July,


Il. ID. 1862


PUBLIC ACTS.


| ABRAHAM LINCOLN, President. HANNIBAL HAM
| LIN, Vice President and President OF the Sen


ate SOLOMON FooTE was elected President


of the Senate pro tenpo'e, on the eighteenth,


close of the session. GALUsHA A. GROW,
| Speaker of the House of Representatives.


CHAP. LXXVIL.


An Act to provide for the Public Instruction of


Youth in Primary Schools throughout the
County of Washington, in the District of Colum-


bia, without the Limits of the Cities of Wash
ington and Georgetown.


| [CoNCLuDED.1


! Sec 81. And be it further enacted, That the
said trustee the said jury, as the case may be-
Immediately after they shall have completed their
valuation and assessment inquistion, aforc-
said, and done all things required OF them, or
either of them, the case may be, under the
provisions of this act, shall make out fair state
ment Of their proceedings, setting forth in the
same full and distinct description of the land or
! real estate and improvements, il any thereon, as
valued by them or either of them, the case may
be, and all matters and things connected with the
| said valuation and assessment, and the perform
ancc of the duties required of them by this act,
and to the said copy fairly to be written out as
aforesaid, they shall subscribe their names and
thereunto atiX their seals and they shall deposit





court of the District of Columbia and it shall be
the duty of the said clerk to preserve record of
| the said proceedings without fee or reward and
a copy of such record, certified by the said clerk
under the seal of the said court shall be evidence
of all matters therein stated, in the manner
as certified copies of other records are evidence.
SEC. 2S And be it further enacted, That in the
event of an appeal and the inluisition of jury,
provided by this act, the amount CT damages
for the land or real estate and improvements so
valued and assessed aforesaid, being paid
offered to be paid aforesaid, the said trustees,
in their corporate character aforesaid, shall
thenccforward forever thereafter be considered
the lawful owners OF the said land and improve
ments aforesaid, and all right, title, interest,
and estate therein, at law or in equity, shall be
vested in the said trustees for the purpose afore
said: Provided, That it shall not be lawful TO To-
cate the said site in the orchard garden nor
within three hundred yards of any dwelling of
any person or persons whatever, without the as
sent of the proprietor of such orchard, garden or
dwelling, the may be.


SEC. %. And be ii further enacted, That if any
treasurer collector, having any school funds in
his hands, or neglecing or refusing to obtain
such funds as by law authorized and directed,
shall refuse to pay for TWO weeks any order of the
said commissioners or trustees, or q majority of
either, drawn in conformity to the acquisitions of
this act, such treasurer or collector shall be liable,
on proof thereof before any court O; justice
justice of the peace having cognZance, and with
out stay OF execution, to pay the full amount of
said order and interest thereon, at the rate of
twenty per centum per annum, from the first re-
1usal until the day OF payment, by way OF damages
SEC. so. And be it further enacted, That if any
collector, appointed or acting under the prOVl-
sionS OF this act, shall in any collect more
than is due, the person aggrieved shah have his
remedy against such collector by suit warrant,
and ii he recover he shall have Judgment for
double the amount improperly and unjustly
tortcd from him, and costs.


SEC. 81. And be it further enacted, That the
Levy Court of Washington county shall exercise
general supervision over the proceedings of said
commissioners, may examine their books and
papers, and shall prosecute for any delinquenc
or violations of their duty; and the said commits
sioners shall exercise the same power over the
proceedings books, and papers of the trustees in
the several school districts, and shall prosecute
for all violations of this act by them committed


SEC -. And be it further enacted, That the
trustees OF the several school districts shall have
the power of exercising discipline i'll their rcspec
tive schools by the expulsion of the refractory
pupil, orsuch ether punishment may be neccs-
sary to correct the evil, and carry out the great
ends of education, moral and intellectual; and
they may permit any of the said school houses to
be used for public worship


SEC 50. And be it further enacted, That any
white resident of said county shall be privileged
to place his or her child ward at any one of the
in said county she or he may think proper to
select.


SEC "a And be it further enacted, That it shall
not be lawful for a member of the levy court of
said county to be commissioner of primary
schools, or trustee OF any OF the school districts,
nor for any person to be at the same time m
missioner and trustee aforesaid.


Sec. 30. And be it further enacted, That the
said Levy Court may, i'll its discretion, and if it
shall be deemed by said court best for the interest
and welfare OF the colorcd people residing in said





per cent. on all the taxable property in said coun
ty outside the limits of the cities of Washington
and Georgetown, owned by persons of color, for
the purpose of initiating symtem OF education
Of colorcd children in said county, which tax
shall be collected in the same manner as the tax
named in section thirteen of this act And it
shall be he duty of the trustees elected under
section nine to provide suitable and convenient
rooms for holding SCHOOLS for colored children,
to employ teachers therefor, and to appropriate
the proceeds of said tax to the payment of teach
ers' wages, rent of school rooms, fuel, and other
necessary expenses pertaining to said schools, to
exercise general supervision over them, to
tablish proper discipline and to endeavor to pro-
mote full, equal, and useful instruction of the
coloIed children in said county. 1t shall be law
full for snch trustees to impose a tax of not more
than fifty cents per month on the parent or guar
dian OF each child attending such schools, to be
applied to the payment OF the expenses of the
school of which such Child shall be an attendant;
and in the exercise of this power the trustees
may, from time to time discontinue the payment
the ability of the child and the wants OF the school
And said trustees authorized to receive any
donations or contributions that may he made for
the benefit of said schools by persons disposed to
aid i'm the elevation of the colorcd population in
the District OF Columbia, and to apply the same
in such manner in their opinion shall be best
calculated to effect the object of the DONORS said
trustees being required to account for all funds
received by them, and to report to the commits
sioncrs, in accordance with the provisions of sec
ton twenty-five of this act.


SEC 81. And be it further enacted, That this act
be, and the same is hereby, declared public and
remedial, ana snail De construed by all courts OF
justice according to the equity thereof; and no
proceedings of the inhabitants or of the trustees
of any school district, or of the commissioners
of primary schools, of any other officer created
under the provisions of this act, shall be set aside
or adjudged to be void for defect of form, for
any irreguarity therein SO as the reqnisitions of
the said act are substantially complied with.


APPROVED, May 20, 1862.


CHAP. LXXVIII.
An Act prescribing the Qualification of Electors
in the Cities of Washington and Georgetown,


in the District of Columbia.


Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Rep
resentatives of the United States OF America in
Congress assembled, That in all municipal elections
in the cities of Washington and Georgetown, in |
the District of Columbia, during the existence of
the present rebellion, every person who shall
offer to vote at any such election, and who shall
be challenged by any legal voter on the ground of
disoyalty to the Government of the United States,
SHALL before his vote shall be received in addition
TO the requirements now established by law, take |
and subscribe to the following oath or affirmation,
namely: "I do solemny swear (or affirm, as the |
case may beg that will support protect, and de- |