Time of notice.

Tax for build

zes.

§ 2. That the notice required by the eighty-second section of said act, for the purpose of convening a meeting to vote upon the question of taxation, shall be twenty days' notice, instead of ten days, as now provided by said section; and said notice shall, in addition to what it is now required to contain, substantially set forth the provisions of the first section of this act.

§ 3. That hereafter it shall be lawful for any school dising school hou-trict in this state to levy, in the manner provided by this act and the act to which this is an amendment, for the purpose of building or repairing school houses, the sum of one dollar on each hundred dollars' worth of taxable property in the district.

Part of section 69 of school

law repealed.

Certificates of

qualification to Woach.

§ 4. That so much of section sixty-nine of the act aforesaid as requires the written consent of the district directors to authorize children to be sent from one school district into another to attend school, be and the same is hereby repealed, and hereafter children may be sent from one district to another as contemplated by said section, unless a majority of the directors of one of the districts interested shall object, in writing, by them signed, to the teacher to whom such children are sent or proposed to be sent; in which case such teacher shall forthwith notify the parents or guardians of such objection, and discharge or refuse to receive such children.

§ 5. That hereafter no person shall receive in this state a certificate of qualification as a common school teacher who is not competent to teach all the seven branches enumerated in section thirteen of the act aforesaid, and so much of said act as authorizes district or township officers to examine teachers is hereby repealed, and hereafter school commissioners in all such examinations shall associate with them one or more competent persons, who shall assist in the same, and countersign all certificates of qualification given by such commissioners.

School directo: s § 6. That hereafter the board of directors in each and to be a body every school district in this state shall be deemed and are hereby declared a body politic and corporate, by the name of "school directors of district number

eorporate.

District collec

tion of teachers' wages.

ship, range, county of

town

state of Illinois," and by that name may sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, answer and be answered unto in all courts and places whatsoever, and to have perpetual succession.

§ 7. That in school districts where directors employ tor and collec-teachers for a stipulated monthly compensation, the inhabitants, legal voters, may, at the regular election of directors, also elect in the same manner a collector of teachers' wages, and at the close of each school term contracted for the directors shall hold a meeting, ten days' notice of which shall have been previously given in writing, in three public

places in the district, at which meeting the patrons of said school may appear and pay their dues; and the teacher shall also appear and exhibit the amount due from each patron, made out from his schedule, kept as required by law, charging each patron according to the number of days sent; at which time, also, said directors may hear proof and abate the dues of any indigent person not able to pay such dues, and deduct the amount of such abatements from the amount of school funds due upon said schedule, and after deducting the balance of the school funds due on said schedule, if any, from the bills due from the patrons, in just proportion, they shall deliver the unpaid bills so credited to said collector of teachers' wages, who shall proceed to make immediate demand of payment, and in ten days after such demand to collect the same by distress, in the same manner as is now provided by law for the collection of state and county taxes; and said collector shall give bond, payable to said directors for the use of the district, in the sum of three hundred dollars, conditioned for the faithful performance of his duties.

§ 8. Such collector shall be allowed six per cent. upon Fees of collectthe bills collected by him without distress; and where dis- or. tress is made, the same fees as are allowed in like cases to collectors of state and county taxes; in both cases be collected as costs from the delinquent.

§ 9. That if any officer whose duty it is, shall negli- Penalty for neggently or wilfully fail to make, in the time and manner re- lect of duty. quired by law, the report, or discharge the duty enjoined upon him by way of furnishing information necessary to enable the state superintendent to make his biennial report in the time required by law, such delinquent shall be liable to a fine of twenty-five dollars, to be recovered before any justice of the peace, on information in the name of the people of the state of Illinois, for the use of the proper county.

to pay money

§ 10. Township treasurers, or any other officer or officers Treasurers not who may be required to disburse any of the school funds on schedules according to the laws in force, shall not pay any moneys on unless properly schedules of schools not certified in proper form by the district school directors.

certified.

of school law

§ 11. That all that part of section eighty-four of said Part of sec. 84 act entitled "An act to maintain and establish common repealed. schools," approved February twelfth, eighteen hundred and forty-nine, and in force April thirteenth, eighteen hundred and forty-nine, as requires the county courts of each county to pay the school commissioners of their respective counties an amount not exceeding two dollars per day for each day, not exceeding fifty days per year, while engaged in the discharge of their duties as ex officio superintendents of schools, be and the same is hereby repealed: Provided, Proviso. that said school commissioners shall not be required to

Re-sle of lands.

Property of non

ject to taxation

perform the duties of public lecturer when they receive no compensation.

§ 12. Where any school commissioner of any county in this state shall have bought any school or other lands, for any debt or debts due the school fund in such county, the school commissioner may re-sell the same, under the provisions of the school law of this state regulating the sale of school lands.

§ 13. Where the inhabitants of any school district shall residents sub- vote a tax upon their district for school purposes, according to provisions of this act, the tax so voted shall be levied and collected upon the property in said district belonging to non-residents, at the same rate and in the same manner that the tax is levied and collected on the property of residents of such district.

Persons whose residence is

temporary not

§ 14. That in elections under the provisions of the school laws of this state, persons whose residence is tementiti'd to vote. porary, or who reside therein for the purpose of being educated, shall not be computed as inhabitants of the district, nor entitled to vote in said district in levying a tax for school purposes.

APPROVED Feb. 15, 1851.

In force Feb. 15, 1851.

Indexes to re

AN ACT in relation to the records of the counties of Carroll and Putnam.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the people of the State of eorder's books. Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That the county court of Putnam county and the board of supervisors of the county of Carroll be and they hereby are authorized, each of them, to employ a competent person to make a complete index to the records in the recorder's office of their respective counties. There shall be an index of the names of the grantors and of the grantees, and also of the tracts or parcels of land; and the recorder of said counties, after said index or indexes shall be so made, is required to keep the same in that manner without additional compensation; and such index or indexes shall be kept in said recorder's office. The said persons so employed shall take an oath faithfully to perform the duties herein required of them, which may be taken before any justice of the peace, and shall be filed in the office of the clerk of the circuit court. The said county court and board of supervisors are each respectively authorized to pay the person so to be employed by them a reasonable compensation, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.

APPROVED February 15, 1851.

AN ACT for the formation of the county of Oregon.

In force Feb. 15,

1851.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the people of the State of Boundaries. Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That the following described tract of country, lying within the following boundaries, to wit: beginning at the north-west corner of Macoupin county, running due south six miles, to the south-west corner of section thirty-one, township twelve north, range nine west; thence due east, twenty-four miles; thence due north, twelve miles, to the north-east corner of township thirteen north, range six west; thence due west, to the north-west corner of said township, on the range line between ranges six and seven; thence due north, ten miles, to the north-east corner of section thirteen, township fifteen north, on the range line between six and seven, to the Northern Cross railroad; thence due west, eleven miles, to the north-west corner of section seventeen, township fifteen north, range eight west; thence due south, six miles, to the north-east corner of section eighteen, township fourteen north, range eight west; thence due west, one mile; thence due south, one mile; thence due west, one mile; thence due south, one mile; thence due west, one mile; thence due south, one mile; thence due west, one mile; thence due south, one mile; thence due west, two miles; thence due south, one mile; thence due west, one mile; thence due south, five miles, to the place of beginning, all west of the third principal meridian, shall form and constitute one of the counties of the state of Illinois, to be called "Oregon."

§ 2. There shall be an election held at the different Election. places of voting for state officers, in the counties of Morgan, Sangamon and Macoupin, at the next general election for state and county officers, to be conducted by the judges and clerks of election that may then be in office, who shall conduct said election in all respects according to the election laws of this state; and all legal voters of the counties of Morgan, Sangamon and Macoupin counties shall be entitled to vote at said election, for or against the formation of said county of Oregon; and if a majority of all the votes given in each of said counties, for or against the creation of said county of Oregon, are for its creation, it shall forever thereafter constitute one of the counties of this state.

§ 3. Within three days after said election, the judges of Returns. said election, at the several places of voting in said counties, shall make returns of said election to the clerk of the county court of their respective counties. Said clerk shall proceed, within three days thereafter, to open said returns and make to the secretary of state, within five days after opening the same, a true statement of the number of votes given at said election, for and against the formation of said county of Oregon. The secretary of state shall, within five days after receiving said return, and

Duty of secreta-if he finds that a majority of the votes given for and against ry of state. the formation of said county are for its formation, he shall cause proclamation to be made thereof in all the newspapers published at the town of Springfield.

stables.

Election for jus- § 4. If the county of Oregon shall be formed, accordtices and con- ing to the foregoing provisions of this act, there shall be an election held at the different places of voting for justices of the peace and constables in the limits of the county of Oregon. The election shall be conducted by the present judges of election in said county, who have been appointed by the counties of Morgan, Sangamon and Macoupin, according to the election laws of this state; at which election the legal voters of the county of Oregon County officer. shall elect all county officers for the county, who shall be qualified and commissioned as similar officers are in other counties of this state. Said officers so elected and qualified shall hold their offices until the next ensuing regular election for such officers, now provided by law, and shall have the same jurisdiction, and discharge all the duties in the limits of the county of Oregon that are required by law of similar officers in other counties in this state. Said election to be held on the first Monday after the proclamation of the governor declaring the creation of said county under the provisions of this act.

Election returns

votes.

§ 5. Within five days after said election, the judges of and canvass of election at the different places of voting shall return the poll-books of said election to the town of Waverly, directed to E. D. Meacham, S. S. Duncan and John Scott, or their successors, three acting justices of the peace in the limits of said county; and the said justices shall meet in the town of Waverly, within seven days after said election, and proceed to open said election returns, and to do and perform all the duties in relation to said returns that are required by law of the clerks of county courts in relation to similar returns.

Circuit court,

when and

where to be held.

dictments.

§ 6. As soon as the county officers shall have been elected and qualified, as provided for in this act, the county court shall give notice of the same to the judge of the first judicial circuit, who shall hold courts in the said county at such place as may be provided and designated by the county court of said county, until the county seat of said county shall be located, as hereinafter provided for. Said county of Oregon shall form a part of the first judicial circuit, until otherwise directed by law.

Suits and in- § 7. Suits and indictments that have been commenced, or may hereafter be commenced, in the circuit courts of the counties of Sangamon, Morgan or Macoupin, by any of the citizens living in the limits of the county of Oregon, before the organization thereof, shall not be affected by this act, but all such suits so commenced shall be decided in the circuit court in the county where they were commenced.