distributing officers, that may be hereafter created; shall not fail to distribute to said school district its share of said funds on that account, but shall proceed to obtain a correct enumeration of children, if no enumeration has been made, and statement of such attendance upon the schools of said district, or requiring such enumerations and schedules, or copies thereof to be made, and it shall be the duty of said Clerk to certify board to cause the clerks to certify to said trustees of schools of said township, on or before the first day of September in each year, the number of children under twentyone years of age, and between the ages of five and twentyone years, living in said district, and any and all other information required under the common school law of the state.

§ 8. No person shall be qualified as an elector at any of the foregoing elections unless he shall be qualified as an elector under the laws of the state of Illinois.

§ 9. The treasurer of said township shall pay over to the treasurer of said district all moneys and funds belonging to the several districts embraced within the corporate limits aforesaid, and said board of education shall pay the debts and liabilities of the said school districts embraced within said district.

to trustees.

Qualification of electors.

Duties of the treasurer.

pupils.

§ 10. The board of education may admit pupils from Admission of Shelby county and elsewhere upon such terms and charges of tuition as they may deem proper.

of members.

Act to be submittted to legal voters.

11. No person shall serve as a member of the board Qualifications of education who is not a qualified voter under the laws of this state, and who is not a freeholder in said school district. 12. This act shall be submitted to a vote of the quali 'fied electors of said district, to be held at the court house in said city of Shelbyville, on the first Monday of April, A. D. 1869. Ten days previous notice thereof shall be given by the persons named in said board of education, by publication in one or more of the newspapers in said city, of the time and place of holding said election, and the persons appointed as the board of education shall, before the time of giving the notice aforesaid, meet and organize by selecting two of their number to act as judges of said election, and by selecting one of their number to act as clerk of said election; said election to be conducted in the same manner as is in this act prescribed for holding ducting the annual district election for said district. Those voting tions. in favor of the adoption of the foregoing act shall vote thus: "For School Act." Those opposed to the adoption of said act: "Against School Act." And if at such election a majority of the votes cast are for the said act, then it shall be the duty of said board of education to make a record of said vote in the records of said board of education, and said act shall be deemed and taken to be a public act from and after said election: Provided, that if a

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majority of the votes cast are against the adoption of said school act, then said act shall be deemed null and void. APPROVED March 30, 1869.

SCHOOLS-DIRECTORS AND TRUSTEES.

1869.

In force Feb. 19, AN ACT authorizing the directors of the Ashton school district to build a school house, and for establishing the bounds of said district and locating said school house site.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That secBoundaries of tions twenty-one (21), twenty-eight (28), twenty-seven (27), school district. twenty-six (26), thirty-three (33), the west half of thirtyfour (34), the west half of the north-east quarter of section thirty-four (34), and also the south half of the south half of section twenty-two (22), all in township number twentytwo (22), range eleven (11) east, of the fourth P. M., shall be formed into and shall constitute one school district, to be known and designated as the "Ashton School District"; and the inhabitants thereof shall be entitled to and possess all the powers, privileges, rights and immunities of other school districts now provided for by law.

Extension boundaries.

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of § 2. The school trustees of said township may extend the boundaries of said district so as to suit the wishes and conveniences of the inhabitants thereof.

3. The school directors of said district are hereby empowered to build, or cause to be built, a school building, such as the necessities of the district demand; and the site for the same is hereby fixed on block number twenty-one (21), in the town of Ashton.

4. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

APPROVED February 19, 1869.

In force March 10, 1869.

AN ACT to confirm title.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That the Deed made valid deed of Luther H. Bowen, the original proprietor of the incorporated town of Savanna, Carroll county Illinois, and

given to the school trustees of school district No. 1. in said. town, on the 9th day of April, 1867, to block 27, in said town, and the lease given by the board of town trustees of the incorporated town of Savanna to the school trustees of said town, on the 2nd day of July, 1867, to said block 27, be and they are hereby confirmed and made valid, for the use and purposes therein expressed.

2. Be it further enacted, that the school directors of Erect building. said school district No. 1. in said town, are hereby authorized and empowered to contract for the erection of a school house, and to build upon and occupy the said block 27, as a site for a school house, and to appropriate any funds which have or may hereafter be raised by a vote of legal voters of said district, and to expend the same in building a school house thereon and in fencing, ornamenting and improving the ground.

3. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

APPROVED March 10, 1869.

AN ACT authorizing the school directors of district number two, in town In force March number thirty-eight north, of range fourteen east, in the county of Cook,

to raise funds for the establishment of a graded school.

22, 1869.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That the Levy taxes. school directors of district number two, in town number thirty-eight north, of range fourteen east, in the county of Cook, are hereby authorized to levy a tax of not exceeding one and one-half per cent. for the year eighteen hundred and sixty-nine, and one and one-half per cent. for the year one thousand eight hundred and seventy, on the taxable property of said district, in addition to the amount now authorized by law, for public school purposes, and also to issue bonds for a like amount, payable within three years, for the purpose of securing grounds and erecting buildings for the county normal school: Provided, the board of supervisors shall decide to locate the same within the limits of said district, or for the establishment of a graded school: Provided, the county normal school is not located within the limits of said district.

2.

This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

APPROVED March 29, 1869.

9, 1869.

In force March AN ACT to legalize the action of the directors of schools in district seven (7), in townships twenty-six (26) and twenty-seven (27) north, range (12) twelve west, in the county of Iroquois, in issuing bonds for the purpose of building a school house.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That the Issue of bonds action heretofore had and taken by the directors of schools

valid.

of district seven (7), in townships twenty-six (26) and twenty-seven (27), in the county of Iroquois in issuing the bonds of said district for the purpose of borrowing money to build and furnish a school house in said district, be and the same is hereby legalized and confirmed, and the bonds issued by said directors are hereby declared to be valid.

§ 2. This shall be a public act, and shall be in force from and after its passage.

APPROVED March 9, 1869 :.

In force March AN ACT to authorize school district No. three, township eight north, of 31, 1869.

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range eleven west, in Jersey county, state of Illinois, to issue bonds for the purpose of building a school house.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That the directors of school district number three, of township eight north, of range eleven west of the third principal meridian, in Jersey county, state of Illinois, for the purpose of building and furnishing a school house in said district and purchasing a lot therefor, are hereby authorized to issue bonds of said school district for a sum not exceeding fifteen thousand dollars, in sums not less than one hundred dollars each, bearing interest at the rate of not more than ten per cent., per annum, payable annually, and payable at such time or times as they may deem proper, not less than two Sale of bonds. years and not exceeding thirty years, from date. Said bonds may be sold or negotiated for such discount or premium as said directors shall deem proper; and the money realized from the sale of said bonds shall be faithfully ap plied for the purpose of purchasing a suitable lot and building and furnishing a school house in said district: Provi ded, that said directors, before they shall be authorized to issue said bonds, shall give notice, by posting notices in four of the most public places in said district, and also by publication thereof in all the weekly newspapers publishQuestion sub- ed therein, for three successive weeks before the day specmitted to vote ified in said notice and next preceding the same, to the legal voters of said school district who paid taxes on real or

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personal property, or both, for the year A. D. 1867, for school purposes, and who are entitled to vote for schoolt directors, to meet at the respective places of holding elections for school directors, to vote on the question as to whether the said directors shall be authorized to issue said bonds. Said notice shall also specify the amount of bonds proposed to be issued, the rate of interest and the length of time for which the said bonds are to run. Said election shall be conducted in the same manner as elections for ducting election school directors. One set of ballots shall contain the words "For school house," and the other "Against school house;" and the returns of such election shall be with all convenient dispatch certified to by the persons having charge of the same; and if it shall appear therefrom that a majority of the voters entitled to vote at such election under this act shall be in favor of a school house, the said directors shall issue said bonds and negotiate the same, for the purpose aforesaid; but if a majority of the persons entitled to vote at such election under this act shall be against a school house, then the said bonds shall not be issued: Provided, if the first vote should be against a school house, then the said directors may again submit such proposition any number of times they deem best to a vote of those entitled to yote under this act who have paid taxes on real or personal property, or both, in said district, for the year previous to submitting said question, by giving like

notice.

§ 2. Said funds shall be a fund in the hands of said directors, for which they shall be liable as other funds coming into their hands, and the same shall be placed in the hands of the treasurer of said school moneys of said district, to be drawn out on their order, for the purpose aforesaid: Provided, the said treasurer shall not be allowed any fees or commissions exceeding one half of one per cent. for receiving and paying out of the same.

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§ 3. The directors of said district are authorized to pay Bonds paid for out said bonds to contractors for the building of said school house, or furnishing the same, or in purchasing the lot therefor: Provided, the same are not taken at not less than their par value.

pay interest.

$4. For the payment of interest or principal of said Levy tax to bonds hereby authorized to be issued, the said directors shall be and are hereby authorized to levy and collect taxes in the manner prescribed by the general school laws of this state; but in no case to exceed one per cent. on the taxable property of said district, without a vote of the people. 85. This act is hereby declared a public act, shall be in force from and after its passage.

APPROVED March 31, 1869.