residents or non-residents, and also each and every tract of land assessed by the assessor, the larger part of which lies within said district. The county clerk shall cause each person's tax so computed to be set upon the tax book, to be delivered to the county collector for that year, in a separate column, against each tax payer's name, or parcel of taxable property, as it appears on said collector's books, to be collected in the same manner and at the same time as state and county taxes. When collected, the township treasurer shall demand and receive the amount from the said collector, enter the same in a separate account in his cash book, which shall be paid out by him on the order of the trustees of schools, as provided in section forty-one hereof. When a district is composed of parts of two or more townships, the directors shall determine and inform the collector in writing, under their hands as directors, which of the treasurers of the townships from which their district is formed, shall demand and receive the tax money collected by the county collector as aforesaid. The township treasurer shall receipt to the collector for the amount received as provided above; which receipt shall be evidence, as well in favor of the collector as against the township treasurer.

enforcing collection

§ 73. If the township treasurer shall fail or refuse, upon proper Mode of demand, to pay to any person or persons, his, her, or their proper of tax. proportion of the state, county, township, or tax funds, that he may have collected, and that may be due to such person or persons, according to the distribution of the trustees of schools as provided for in section forty-one hereof; and if the trustees of schools, upon notice in writing, from the person or persons to whom such distribution may have been made as aforesaid, that said treasurer does so fail or refuse, shall fail to cause payment to be made, or to remove said treasurer, then and in that case, such person or persons may bring suit or suits against said trustees by their corporate name, before any court having jurisdiction thereof; and if said trustee of - schools shall refuse to pay whatever judgment may be rendered against them upon suit and trial, within one month after the rendition of such judgment, and no appeal be taken, execution may be sued out thereon and levied upon the individual property of said trustees of schools.

tax, and for

before 1st Sat

§ 74. The school directors of each district in which a tax has Directors to been levied by vote, according to the provisions of this act, shall, at port amount of least two days before the first Saturday in April and October, in what purpose, each year, make out and deliver to the township treasurer who may urday of Apri be legally authorized to receive such tax from the county collector, and October. a certificate subscribed by them as school directors, stating whether their district has levied a tax for the current year, and if so, for what purpose, and what rate of tax was levied, stating, also, how much, and to whom, their district is indebted for each of the items for which such tax may have been levied; which certificate may be in the following form, as near as circumstances will permit, viz: The treasurer of township —, in county, district No. in said township, is indebted, out of the tax fund of said "cate district, as follows:

To A B, for fuel furnished for use of the school
To C D, for purchase money for school-house lot
To E F, for building school house

To G H, for repairing

$

$

Form of eertif

To LM, on his schedule, returned according to
law, since our last certificate

The legal voters of said district did, on the levy a tax at the rate of

poses, viz:

$

day of
cents per $100, for the following pur-

(Here state the object for which the tax was levied.)
Witness our hands, this

day of, 18

have certificate

To make schedules.

TEACHERS-THEIR DUTIES.

§ 75. No teacher shall be entitled to any portion of the common Teachers must school or township fund who shall not, before his employment, exof qualification. hibit to the school directors of the district in which he proposes to teach a school, a certificate of qualification obtained under the provisions of section thirteen or section forty-six hereof; which certificate shall be good and valid for one year from the date thereof. Teachers shall make schedules of the names of all scholars under twenty-one years of age, attending their schools, in the form prescribed by this act; and when scholars reside in two or more districts, townships, or counties, separate schedules shall be kept for each district, township, or county; and the absence or presence of every scholar shall be set down under the proper date, and opposite the name, on every day that the school is open; the absence of a scholar shall be signified by a blank-the presence by a mark, The schedule to be made and returned by the teacher shall be, as near as circumstances will permit, in the following form, viz:

Form of schedule

SCHEDULE of a Common School, kept by A B, at

ber

in district num

in township sixteen north, range five, west of the third principal meridian, in the county of "2 in the state of Illinois.

§ 76. In closing the schedule, the teacher shall make a list of To certify. the names of the scholars attending school, then add together the number of days which each scholar has attended, setting it down in the right hand column, (as in form,) which column he shall then add up, and set down the grand total number of days at the bottom of said column, (as in the form;) when the schedule is thus closed, he shall certify to the correctness of the same: Provided, that nothing herein contained shall prevent the teaching a foreign language in an English school, as aforesaid.

The certificate shall be in the following form, viz:

I certify that the foregoing schedule of scholars attending my Form of certitischool, as therein named, and residing as specified in said sched- cate. ule, to the best of my knowledge and belief, is correct; that it was a school for the purpose of teaching various branches of an English education, and that the common medium of communication in said school was the English langugage. A B, Teacher.

Deliver schedule

§ 77. When the teacher shall have completed his or her schedule, as above required, he or she shall deliver it to some one of to director. the school directors of the proper district, on or before the first Time of delivery. Saturday of March and September; and all schedules, whether for a whole or any portion of a term, shall be presented to the township treasurer at least two days before the first Saturday in April and October. Upon the receipt of the amount distributed To by the township treasurer upon their schedules, teachers shall received. credit each scholar with the just proportion of the amount according to the number of days said scholars attended school, and the balance shall be the amount due said teacher. Each teacher shall teach sixty days for a quarter, unless otherwise agreed upon by him and the directors of the district.

each

credit scholar amount

COMMON SCHOOL FUND-DISTRIBUTION TO COUNTIES,

What shall con

§ 78. The common school fund of the state shall consist of the amount due from the state, according to a statement and settlement "stitute commoa of the amount between the state and that fund, under the provi- school fund, sions of an act entitled "An act to provide for the distribution and application of the interest on the school, college and seminary fund," approved on the seventh February, one thousand eight hun. dred and thirty-five, and of all funds which have been or may be received by the state from the United States, for the use and support of common schools, and also of the money added to the common school fund which was received from the United States under an act of congress providing for a distribution of the surplus revenue of the United States, and which was vested in bank stock, by authority of the state: Provided, that in case where, heretofore, the Proviso. state taxes have not been collected in any county, such county shall not be entitled to a distribution of the college, seminary and school fund, for the period of time that no such taxes have been collected, and that the portion of the fund aforesaid shall in such cases be distributed without regard to such county.

§ 79. The state shall pay an interest of six per centum per an-state to pay six the amount of the aforesaid common school fund, which per cent. anneshall be paid annually, and applied to the support of common

num upon

ally.

College and seminary fund.

Duty of auditor.

Warrant for dividend.

Collector to pay school com'r.

schools, as herein provided. The state shall also pay as aforesaid, and at the same time, an interest of six per centum per annum upon the amount due the college and seminary fund; which interest shall be loaned to the common school fund, and known in this law and applied in all cases as interest on the common school fund as aforesaid.

§ 80. On the first Monday of January, in each and every year, next after taking the census of the state, the auditor of public accounts shall, under the supervision of the commissioners of the school fund of the state, ascertain the number of white children in each county of the state under twenty-one years of age, and shall thereupon make a dividend to each county of the interest due upon the school, college and seminary fund, in proportion the number of white children in each county, under the age aforesaid, and issue his warrant to the school commissioner of each county upon the collector thereof. And upon presentation of said warrant by the school commissioner to the collector of his county, said collector shall pay over to the school commissioner the amount of said warrant out of the first specie funds which may be collected by him, and not otherwise appropriated by law, taking said commissioners' receipt therefor; and on settlement with the auditor, said collector shall be credited with the amount specified in said receipt, in the same manner as if it had been paid into the treasury. Dividends shall be made, as aforesaid, according to the proportions ascertained to be due to each county, annually thereafter, until another census shall have been taken, and then dividends shall be made and continued as aforesaid, according the last census: Provided, that if said collector shall file an affidavit with the school commissioner, that he is not and has not been able to collect enough in gold and silver, over and above one and a half mills in act thirty-nine in the appendix to the Revised Laws specified, to pay off said warrant, nor more upon it than he has paid, then and in that case, the school commissioner shall receive auditor's warrants for pay in warrants, the balance not paid in specie; otherwise said collector shall be li able to pay the whole amount in specie.

Proviso.

Collector

may

People may, by
vote,
school house.

MEETING OF THE INHABITANTS OF DISTRICTS-SCHOOL LOTS

HOUSES-TAXES.

§ 81. It shall be lawful for the legal voters of any school dislocate trict to assemble, according to notice, as provided in section sixtyeight hereof, at the time and place appointed in said notice, for the purposes hereinafter in this section specified. They shall appoint one of their number chairman, and another secretary. They may then determine, by vote, the place upon which to erect a school house. If no place receive a majority of all the votes given, the two places receiving the highest number of votes shall then be voted for; and the place receiving a majority of the votes given shall be the place whereon to erect said school house. Said meeting shall then determine, by vote, the description or kind of house they will have, the amount and kind of furniture with which said house shall be supplied, and the manner in which the cost of said and how to be lot, or the building of said house, and of furniture aforesaid, or the cost of any, or either, or all of them shall be defrayed, whether by individual subscription, or by an amount raised by taxation, or either of them. The secretary shall keep a true record of said

Description house.

Furniture.

of

Determine cost, raised.

meeting, and shall present it, certified by himself and the chairman, to the district directors.

TAXES.

Saturday in May

annually, and

vote for or ag'nst tax for school

purposes.

§ 82. On the first Saturday of May next, and on the first Sat- People to meet 1st urday of May annually thereafter, the inhabitants, legal voters of any school district in this state, may meet together at some convenient place in the district, for the purpose of voting for or against levying a tax for the support of common schools, for building and repairing school houses, or for other school purposes, or to pay existing debts, contracted for school purposes before that time, in the district. The school directors shall give ten days' notice of such meeting, by posting up notices in at least six public places in the district, setting forth therein the time, place and object of such meeting; and said meeting shall be organized between the hours of one and three o'clock, P. M.: Provided, that if five of said in- meetings. habitants request it, school directors shall call such meeting to be holden upon any Saturday, notice to be given as aforesaid.

May have called

of

§ 83. The inhabitants, legal voters, when convened as above Organization provided, shall organize by appointing one of their number chair- meeting. man, and another secretary. They shall then determine by vote, in such manner as they may choose-first, whether they will levy a tax on the taxable property in said district for the purposes or either or any of them, in section eighty-two specified; if a majority of the voters residing in the district shall be for a tex, they shall determine upon the rate to be levied for the current year, not exceeding Rate of taxation. twenty-five cents on the one hundred dollars, and to what purpose or purposes, authorized in sections eighty-one and eighty-two hereof, the amount raised by tax shall be applied. The secretary shall keep a true and correct record of the proceedings of such meeting, which shall be certified and signed by the chairman and secretary, and presented by said secretary, together with all the names of all the resident tax payers of the district, to the district directors Provided, that for purchase of lot or building, and fur- Proviso. nishing school house, the rate of taxation may be any amount determined by vote as aforesaid, not exceeding five hundred dollars in

the aggregate: Provided, that in incorporated towns and cities a Tax unlimited for tax for school purposes may be voted for and levied, not exceeding certain purposes fifty cents on the one hundred dollars, and to an amount not ex- 50 cts. to $109. ceeding a thousand dollars for buildings and school purposes.

COMPENSATION OF OFFICERS.

Towns and cities

co school commissioner.

§ 84. School commissioners shall be allowed to retain out of Compensation of the township funds of the township for which the services were rendered, three per cent. upon the amount of sales, for their services in receiving and recording petitions for the sale of school lands, advertising, making reports, taking security for the purchase money; and two per cent. he shall retain of the amount of all sums distributed or paid to township treasurers for the support of schools. Township treasurers shall be allowed two per cent. upon all funds of township treapaid out, and two per cent, on all funds loaned; but the two per cent. for funds loaned shall not be allowed unless there has been

surer.