Sites, First. To buy grounds and sites for school houses. Second.-To hire, purchase or erect houses and build- inge, etc. ings, to be used for school purposes, and to keep the same in repair. build Third-To furnish schools with the necessary fixtures, Furniture, etc. furniture and apparatus. Fourth.-To graduate the schools into as many depart- Departments. ments as the educational wants of the district may require, to fix the studies to be taught in each department thereof, and to prescribe the books to be used. Compensation Fifth. To employ and fix the compensation of teachers, and to maintain, support, establish and carry on public of teachers. schools in said district for as many months in the year, not more than nine months, as they may deem proper. Sixth. To borrow money, and also to levy annually and have collected in the same manner as other school directors, for school purposes, a tax not exceeding two per centum on the assessed valuation of all the taxable property in said district, as subject to taxation. May borrow money. Levy taxes. Rules for gov ernment. Seventh. To adopt such rules and regulations concerning schools, not, inconsistent with this act and the general school laws of the state, as they may deem expedient. Eighth.-And, generally, to have all the powers con- General powers. ferred by law upon school directors as necessary to carry any of the foregoing powers into effect: Providing, always, that this section does not confer upon the directors the power to erect buildings, whereby the Illiopolis school district shall incur a debt, without first submitting the question of erecting such buildings or purchasing such sites to a vote of the resident tax payers of said district. Non-resident 9. The directors of said school district may admit pupils from without such district to the public schools pupils. thereof or to any department thereof, upon such terms and conditions as they may prescribe. They shall, also, have power to require a tuition fee for the admission of pupils to such schools, in addition to the public moneys which they may collect. to be loaned. 10. The school fund of said district shall be kept, School fund loaned at interest, at the rate of ten per cent., per annum, payable semi-annually in advance. No loan shail be made for a longer period than three years; and all loans exceeding one hundred dollars shall be secured by unincumbered real estate of double the value of the sum loaned, exclusive of the value of perishable improvements thereon. For sums of one hundred dollars and less, two good sureties, beside the principal, shall be required. All notes and sureties shall be taken payable to the Illiopolis school district, and in that name all suits and actions may be had; and all expenses for preparing or recording securities shall be paid by the borrower. May purchase tate. § 11. The directors of said Illiopolis school district are and hold real es- hereby vested with general powers and authority to purchase real estate, if in their opinion the interests of the district or district fund will be promoted thereby, in satisfaction of any judgment or decree wherein the said board of directors are plaintiffs or complainants; and the title of such real estate so purchased shall vest in said board, for the use of the inhabitants of said district, for school purposes; and all purchases of land heretofore made for said Illiopolis school district, or as formerly constituted district No. seven (7), of township sixteen (16) north, range one (1) west of the third principal meridian, are hereby declared vested in and belonging to the said Illiopolis disIndebtedness. trict. The said board are hereby vested with general power and authority to make all settlements with persons indebted to them in their official capacity, or receive deeds of real estate in compromise, and to cancel in such manner as they may think proper, notes, bonds, mortgages, judgments and decrees, existing or that may hereafter exist for the benefit of the district when the interest of said district or the fund concerned shall, in their opinion, require it; and their action shall be valid. Said board of directors are hereby authorized to lease or sell, at public auction, after advertising at least ten days, any land or premises which may come into their possession, in such manner and on such terms as they shall deem for the best interests of the said Illiopolis school district. Doubtful sccu 12. If the security of any loan should at any time rity made good. before the same is due become, in the opinion of the treasurer or directors insecure, the treasurer shall notify the person indebted, and unless satisfactory security is given forthwith, judgment may be recovered thereon as in other cases, whether the debt be due or not. Public school laws. Board of directors. No compensation. 13. All the laws concerning public schools, not inconsistent herewith, shall apply to the said district. § 14. The directors shall not be entitled to any compensation whatsoever for their services as directors of said district. The treasurer shall receive the same compensation that township treasurers receive by law for like services. sage. 15. This act shall be in force from and after its pas APPROVED March 30, 1869. AN ACT to amend an act entitled "An act to incorporate the Kankakee.In force March School District," approved February 16, 1865. 30, 1869. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That the Issue bounds. board of education of said school district shall have power to issue bonds, at a rate of interest not to exceed ten per cent., per annum; but that the whole amount of such bonds outstanding at any one time shall not exceed forty thousand dollars. § 2. The said board of education shall have power to Levy special tax levy upon the taxable property of said district, annually, a tax not exceeding ten mills upon the dollar of such taxable property, to pay interest upon such bonds and indebtedness. 3. That this act shall be deemed a public act, and shall be in force and effect from and after its passage. APPROVED March 30, 1869. AN ACT to amend an act entitled "An act to amend an act to incorporate In force March the Kankakee School District," approved February 16, 1865. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That section three of the act to amend an act entitled "An act to incorporate the Kankakee School District," approved February 22, 1867, be and the same is hereby repealed, and that section seven of the "Act to incorporate the Kankakee School District," approved February 16th, 1865, be and the same is hereby revived and declared to be in full force. 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. APPROVED March 24, 1869. 24, 1869. Section 3 repealed. AN ACT to attach all fractional townships in Kankakee county to full In force March townships therein, for school purposes. 26, 1869. school district. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That all the Additions fractional township lying along the east side of Kankakee county, including township twenty-nine (29), lying partly in Iroquois county, shall be attached to the same numbered townships lying upon the west side thereof, respectively; and that fractional townships twenty-nine (29), lying in Vol. III-67 to both of said counties, and thirty (30) north, of range eleven (11) east, shall be attached to the same numbered townships, lying upon the east side thereof, respectively; and that said fractional townships shall form parts and parcels of said full townships, for said school purposes; and said full townships shall acquire all rights belonging to the said fractional townships. § 2. This act shall be deemed a public act, and shall be in force and effect from and after its passage. APPROVED March 26, 1869. In force June AN ACT to amend an act entitled "An act to incorporate the Lacon Union 19, 1869. Aet a rended. School District. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That an act of the general assembly of the state of Illinois, approved February 16th, 1857, be amended by striking out the word "May," where it appears in the seventh section of said act, and inserting the word "September," and by striking out the words "thirty days," where they appear in said seventh section of said act, and inserting "ten days." APPROVED March 24, 1869. In force March AN ACT to repeal "An act for the relief of the inhabitants of township 15, 1889. Aet repealed three (3) north, range ten (10), and of the inhabitants of township three (3) north, range nine (9) west, in Madison county, Illinois," approved February 16, 1857, and any act amendatory thereof, and for other purposes. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That "An act for the relief of the inhabitants of township three (3) north range ten (10), and of the inhabitants of township three (3) north, range nine (9) west, in Madison county, Illinois,' approved February 16th, 1857, and any act amendatory thereof, be and the same are hereby repealed, and that the school districts of township number three (3) north, range ten (10) west, now known as districts number one (1), number two (2) and number three (3), shall hereafter be composed only of such parts of said districts, respectively, as lie within said township: Provided, however, that said district may hereafter have their boundaries changed in such manner as the school laws may provide. Collection of § 2. That the board of directors of school districts numbers one and three, aforesaid, shall be entitled to draw from surplus interest. the surplus interest of the township fund of said township three (3) north, ten (10) west, for the purpose of building school houses, an amount proportionate to that which has already been drawn by district number two (2), for the same purpose. These amounts shall be determined by ascertaining the number of persons under twenty-one years of age now resident in each district, and ascertaining the number of dollars per capita heretofore used for building a school house in district number two (2), and therefrom the amounts equitably due to district numbers one and three, which amounts shall be paid by the trustees, on the order of the directors: Provided, that neither of such amounts shall exceed thirty-five hundred dollars. § 3. It shall be the duty of the treasurer of said town- Duties of the ship, by virtue of this act, to pay over, under the direction treasurer. of the trustees and on the order of the board of directors, the amounts to which each of said districts is entitled. § 4. That the school in progress at the time of the pas- Pay continued. sage of this act shall be provided and paid for as hereto fore provided, until their present terms expire. 5. This act shall be a public act, and in force from and after its passage. APPROVED March 15, 1869. AN ACT to amend an act incorporating Marion School District, William- In force March son county. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That so much of the first section of an act entitled "An act to establish the Marion School District, in Williamson county," approved February 16th, A. D. 1857, as incorporates with the said Marion School District the northeast quarter of section twenty-three, and the west half of section fourteen, in township nine south, of range two east of the third principal meridian, be and it is hereby repealed, and the said quarter and half section are to be omitted from the said Marion School District, and become subject to the control of trustees of the township in which they are located, as though they had never been incorporated with said Marion School District. APPROVED March 27, 1869. 27, 1869. Part of sec. 2 repealed. |