ten per cent. per annum, and to issue bonds therefor, in sums of not less than $100; which bonds shall be signed by the president and attested by the clerk and seal of said board.

§ 11. Said board of education shall have full power, and it shall be its duty, to determine the amount of money needed to maintain said schools and their departments, and to pay all expenses of said school district, of every description, for each school year, and to determine the amount of money needed at any time, for the pupose of purchasing, leasing or improving grounds for said school purposes, or for purchasing, leasing, building, repairing, finishing, improving or extending their said school buildings, or of procuring furniture, libraries, and apparatus, or of paying the indebtedness of said school district, incurred for any of the purposes aforesaid. Said board shall have full power and authority to levy taxes upon all the taxable real and personal property in said district, for the purpose of raising said amount so determined by it. Said board shall designate the amount of money required for the maintenance and expenses of said schools and their departments for each school year, as aforesaid, "school tax;" and the amount required for any other of the purposes specified in this section, said board shall designate "school house tax." It shall be the duty of the said board to ascertain, at any meeting prior to the second Monday in September, annually, the rate per cent. upon the assessed value of the real and personal property in said Union School District, for State and other purposes for that year, needed to be levied to raise the amount of "school tax" determined upon, and what rate per cent. upon the same will be needed to be levied to raise the amount of "school house tax" determined upon; which rate or rates shall be certified by the president and attested by the clerk of said board, and returned to the clerk of the county court of said Schuyler county, on or before the second Monday of September, annually. The certificate or certificates so made may be in the following form, as near as may be:

"The Board of Education of the Rushville Union School District requires the rate of.. ..per cent. on the dollar to be levied on the taxable property of said district for the year.. for the purpose of "school tax," (or "school house tax," as the case may be). Dated this........day of....

It shall be the duty of the clerk of said county court to extend the tax or taxes so certified to him in one column, under the name of "union school tax," according to said rate or rates, upon the books for that year of the collectors of taxes for the said townships in which the territory of said Union School District may lie; and the said taxes shall be collected as other taxes are or may be collected, and, when collected, shall be paid over, on demand, to the treasurer of said Union School District. The said county clerk and collector shall receive for their services the same compensation as now is or may be provided for extending and collecting district school taxes: Provided, however, that the rate to be levied in any one year for school tax shall

not exceed three per cent. on the assessed valuation of the taxable property of the said district, and that the rate to be levied in any one year for school house tax shall not exceed five per cent. on said valuation.

§ 12. Said board of education shall hold regular meetings once each month, at such time and place as shall be designated by the rules of said board. Said board shall make, from time to time, all needful rules and regulations for its own government and that of all officers, teacher and agents elected or appointed by said board, and for the custody, control, care and management of the school fund property belonging at any time to said district.

§ 13. Said board shall, annually, at its stated meeting in July, elect a president and clerk, both of whom shall be members of said board, and who shall hold their offices for one year. Said board shall, also, at said meeting, appoint a treasurer of said Union School District, who shall not be a member of said board, and who shall hold his office during the pleasure of said board. The president shall preside at all meetings, and perform all other duties required by the rules of said board. The clerk shall record the proceedings of all meetings, the result of all elections held under this act, and the rules and regulations of said board. The said record shall be signed by the president and attested by the clerk, and the same, or certified copies thereof, under the hand of said clerk and the seal of said board, shall be prima facie evidence of the proceedings of said board, in all courts and places. Said board may adjourn from time to time, and the president or any two members thereof may call special meetings, at such times and in such manner as the rules of said [board] shall provide. Three members of said board shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business; and in the absence of the president or clerk, the board may [appoint] a president or clerk, pro tem.

§ 14. Said board of education may make such rules concerning the duties of the treasurer and the disposition of the funds and other property in his custody, as are not inconsistent with this act.

§ 15. The treasurer of said Union School District shall execute, within ten days from his appointment, a bond, with two or more good and sufficient securities, to be approved by said board; which bond shall be filed and recorded by the clerk, shall be made payable to said board, a penalty to be fixed by said board, and conditioned that he will safely keep, and from time to time pay over, upon the order of said board, all moneys and effects which shall come into his hands or under his control as such treasurer, and will deliver over to his successor in office all books, papers, securities, property and moneys remaining in his hands and belonging to said district, and will faithfully discharge the duties of his office according to law, and the rules made by said board, from time to time, not inconsistent therewith. It shall be the duty of said treasurer to receive and keep all moneys due and payable or belonging to said district. He shall keep an accurate account of all moneys received and paid out by him in a record to be kept by him for that purpose, and shall pay out no

moneys or other effects except upon the order of said board. He shall take and keep vouchers for all moneys paid out on such orders, and shall receive, upon all moneys so paid out on orders, a fee or percentage, to be fixed by said board, not exceeding two per cent. He shall settle his accounts with said board at the August meeting, in each year, and shall produce his books and papers to said board whenever required by them so to do. All orders on said treasurer shall state for what purpose such order was issued, shall be signed by the president, and attested and registered by the clerk of said board.

§ 16. No person shall be eligible to serve as a member of said board, or to vote at any election provided for in this act, or act as judge or clerk of such election, unless he shall be a resident of said district, and have the qualifications of an elector at township elections.

§ 17. That the fund known as the common school fund of township two (2) North, of range one (1) West, and of township two (2) North, of range two (2) West of the fourth principal meridian, in said county of Schuyler, shall be, and the same is hereby divided— a part thereof being set apart and assigned, as hereinafter provided for, to the union district known as the Rushville Union School District, created by this act, and comprising a part of each of said townships.

§ 18. The trustees of schools of said township mentioned in the foregoing section are hereby empowered and directed, within sixty days from the passage of this act, to appoint one of their number from each of said boards, who, together with the county superintendent of said county of Schuyler, shall constitute a board of commissioners, and who shall, after being first duly sworn to faithfully discharge their duties as such, ascertain the whole number of persons in each of said townships between the ages of six and twenty-one years as well as the whole number of persons between said ages in each of said school districts hereby merged in said Rushville Union School District, and shall make report of such facts to the boards of school trustees in each of said townships; and thereupon said respective boards of school trustees are empowered and hereby directed to make a just and equitable division of the common school fund or the choses in action or evidences thereof, as declared in section seventeen of this act, belonging to their respective townships, between that portion of each of said towships merged in and made part of said Rushville Union School District and the remainder of their respective townships, in proportion to the number of persons between the ages aforesaid so found and reported as aforesaid by said commissioners and residing therein, respectively; and the school treasurers of said townships are hereby directed, on demand made by the treasurer of said Rushville Union School District, to surrender and pay over to him such portion of the common school fund of his township as may be apportioned to and assigned by the trustees of schools of said townships to said Union School District, as herein before provided and directed.

§ 19. The said board of commissioners provided for in section eighteen of this act, are hereby authorized and directed, as soon as they are advised of the amounts of the common school fund to which said Rushville Union School District will be entitled under the apportionment aforesaid, to assess and fix the value of all the real and personal school property belonging to each of the school districts hereby merged in said Rushville Union School District, including the several amounts of common school fund apportioned, as aforesaid; and said commissioners shall ascertain how much money it will require to be raised by either of said districts to make the aggregate value of the common school fund and real and personal school property of such district, bear the same proportion to the aggregate value of the common school fund and real and personal school property of the other district as the number of persons between the ages aforesaid in the one district bears to the number of such persons in the other of said districts.

§ 20. The said board of education is hereby made the successors in office of the boards of school directors of the two districts by this act merged into the said Rushville Union School District. All school buildings, property and real estate belonging to either of the said districts so merged, are hereby vested in and conveyed to said board of education of said Rushville Union School District and its successors in office, in fee simple, for the purpose contemplated by this act. It is hereby made the duty of the trustees of schools for said townships two North, one West, and two North, two West, aforesaid, as soon as this act shall take effect, and be in force, to execute and deliver to said board of education all conveyances necessary to perfect in said board of education the title to all real estate now held in trust by either of said boards of trustees for either of said school districts. § 21. Said board of education shall have power, and it is hereby directed to ratify, assume, and carry out all contracts and obligations of the said several boards of directors, which said boards are under and by virtue of this act superseded by said board of education.

§ 22. Said board of education, so far as said Rushville Union School District is concerned, shall be the successors of the trustees of schools of said townships, and in all matters connected with the management of the schools in said Union District, and the care, custody, control and management of school funds and other school property, both real and personal, which now does or may hereafter belong to said Union District. The said board of education shall have the same powers which now are or which by any law of this State may hereafter be vested in trustees of schools, subject only to the provisions of the general school law of this State defining the powers and duties of school trustees.

§ 23. It is hereby made the duty of the board of directors in that one of said school districts hereby merged in said Uuion District which shall be required by the assessment and determination of said board of commissioners to raise, by taxation or otherwise, in their said district or upon the taxable property thereof, an amount of

money to make the aggregate of their school money and school property bear the proportion to the aggregate of school money and school property in the other of said districts, as proved by section nineteen hereof, to submit the proposition of raising the amount determined upon by said commissioners to the legal voters of the district to be taxed, on a day to be fixed by said board of directors, on or before the first day of August, 1869; and if a majority of those voting at said election vote in favor of said proposition, then it shall be the further duty of said board of directors to make their certificate of levy for the amount necessary to be raised on the taxable property of said district, in the manner and form now required by the school law of this State for the raising of money by taxation for common school purposes; and upon the filing of such certificate of levy by said directors with the clerk of the county court of Schuyler, on or before the first day of September, A. D. 1869, or on the raising of said sum of money by said directors or by said district, on or before the first day of September, 1869, this act shall take effect and be deemed a public act, and shall thenceforth be in full force, but if the legal voters at such election should reject said proposition, or said district should fail to raise said sum of money on or before the first day of September, A. D. 1869, then this act to be null and void.

§ 24. Said board of education, for the purpose of building school houses and repairing, improving or adding to the same, or purchasing schoolhouse sites, shall not have power to borrow money or raise the same by taxation, when the amount to be paid annually on such loan or to be raised annually by such taxation shall exceed one per cent, of the value of the taxable property of said Union School District, unless they shall first have submitted the proposition for such loan or levy to a vote of the tax-paying voters of said Union District, at an election held as herein required for other purposes, and obtained a majority of the votes cast at such election in favor of such proposition,

APPROVED March 30, 1869,

SHELBYVILLE UNION SCHOOL DISTRICT,

AN ACT entitled "An Act to incorporate the Shelbyville Graded School."

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: That the territory embraced within the corporate limits of the city of Shelbyville, as at present defined, or as may hereafter be extended, shall constitute a union school district, to be known as the "Shelbyville Graded School."

§ 2. The government of said school district shall be vested in a board of education to be composed of the six following named persons and their successors in office, viz: Anthony T. Hall, John W. Johnson, Findley Behymer, Thomas P. Ryan, Elisha E. Waggoner and William A. Cochran. Said persons composing the first board shall hold their office until the first Monday of April, in the year eighteen hundred and seventy, and until their successors are duly