Omission tax. to real estate or personal property within the limits of sd dis assess school trict and subject to taxation, the taxes thus omitt to be legally assessed shall be added to the assessment upon the property the following year, and collected and paid to the treasury of said board. Prior acts. $5. All prior acts or parts of acts, inconsistent with the provisions of this act, are hereby repealed, and any act of the general assembly now in force or hereafter enacted, shall not be construed in any manner to repeal, alter or ange any of the provisions of this act, unless such act sh. 'I specifically provide for such repeal, alteration or change. § 6. This act is declared to be a public act, and shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. APPROVED February 22, 1859. In force Febru- AN ACT to amend an act entitled "An act to amend the charter of the city of Peoary 18, 1859. ria and to establish and regulate a system of Public Schools in said ity. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the Gencral Assembly, That the ighth section of the act entitled "An act to amend the charter of Charter amen- the city of Peoria and to establish and regulate a system of ded. Election and tax. against public schools in said city," approved February 14th, 1855, be and the same is hereby so altered and amended that on the first Monday of April next and on the first Monday of April of any subsequent year, whenever any school tax has not been voted at the election in the month of November. specified in said eighth section, a vote shall be taken for and against levying a school tax for the current year; and the for election for that purpose shall be held at the same time and places in said city as are or may be provided by law and the ordinances of said city for holding elections for members of the board of school inspectors of said city; and that at such elections the voters shall vote for or against a school tax, by having appropriate words written or printed upon the ballots for said school inspector: Provided, however, that the said board of school inspectors shall, previous to such election, determine the amount of money which in their opinion will be necessary for the support of the public schools of the city to be raised by taxation that year, which may be the same as the amount determined upon previous to the preceding November election, or a different amount, in their discretion; atement pub- and shall publish in one or more newspapers published in the city of Peoria, at least one week previous to said first Monday of April, a statement of the amount which, in their opinion, will be necessary to be raised by taxation for that year, for the support of public schools and school purposes. lis..ed. The said elections shall, in all other respects, be conducted and held as is or may be provided by law and the ordinances of said city; and if it shall appear that a majority of all the voters voting on the question are in favor of a school tax, then the amount so last determined upon by the board of school inspectors shall be assessed and collected in the same manner as the city taxes, and paid over by the collector to the treasurer of the board of school inspectors. $2. Be it further enacted, That the school commissioner Duty of school of Peoria county be and he is hereby authorized, upon receipt commissioner. of the auditor's warrant, to pay to the treasurer of the board of school inspectors of the city of Peoria a sum which shall bear the same proportion to the amount of the warrant that the number of persons in the city of Peoria under twenty-one years, as described by the common school law, shall bear to the whole number of persons under twenty-one years in the above named county of Peoria, and that said commissioner shall, after payment of above stated sum, proceed to make distribution of the remainder of said warrant as provided by law. 3. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. APPROVED February 18, 1859. ୮ AN ACT to legalize an assessment of taxes in a certain school district in the In force Febru county of Peoria. ary 24, 1859. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That an assessment of taxes made and levied in a certain school district in the county of Peoria, known as the Rome district, and composed of fractional township ten north, range nine east, and sections thirty-one and thirty-two in township eleven north, of range nine east, in the year 1858, for the purpose of building a school house in said district, be and the same is Assessment legalized. hereby legalized and declared in all respects valid; and the same shall be collected as is now provided by law for collecting taxes in such cases. 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. APPROVED February 24, 1859. In force Febru- AN ACT to legalize the assessment of School Directors of School District No. One, ary 14, 1859. in T. 19 N., R. 11 W., in Vermilion county, State of Illinois, for the year 1558. Preamble. Whereas the school directors of district No. one, in T. 19 N., R. 11 W., in Vermilion county, state of Illinois, did levy, for the year 1858, twenty cents for general school purposes and eighty cents for paying teachers and extending terms of schools, on each one hundred dollars' valuation of taxable property in said district, without the consent of a majority of the voters in said district, as provided by sections 44 and 48 of "An act to establish and maintain a system of free schools," approved February 16, 1857; and whereas the superintendent of publie instruction has decided officially that the provisions of said sections 44 and 48 of said act requiring the consent of a majority of the legal voters of each school district to levy taxes for the purpose of extending the terms of schools for a longer period than six months in each year are null and void; wherefore, SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That the asAssessment le- sessment of school directors of school district No. one, in T. galized. 19 N., R. 11 W., in Vermilion county, state of Illinois, for the year 1858, for general school purposes and for paying teachers and extending terms of schools for said year, be and the same is hereby legalized and declared to be equally as binding and legal as said assessments would have been had said assessment been made with the consent of a majority of the legal voters of said school district. § 2. This act to take effect and be in force from and after its passage. APPROVED February 14, 1859. in force Febru. AN ACT to legalize the schedules of schools taught in Mowequa, Shelby county. ary 18, 1859. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That the schedules of schools taught by W. M. K. Eaton, in the town of Mowequa, Shelby county, being township 14 N., R. 2 Schedules le- east, in the year 1855, be and the same are hereby legalized, galized. and that the school trustees of township 14, range 2 east, and township 14, range 1 east, of said county, be and they are hereby authorized and required to receive said schedules and require the same to be paid as other schedules. $2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. APPROVED February 18, 1859. AN ACT to legalize the acts of the Board of School Trustees therein named. In force Febru ary 14, 1859. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That all the acts and doings of the board of trustees of township number Acts legalized. twenty-eight, range nine east of the fourth principal meridian, in the county of Stephenson and state, of Illinois, at meetings held on the fourth and thirteenth days of January, in the year one thousand eight hundred and fifty-eight, in relation to altering, enlarging, consolidating or forming school districts, are hereby legalized and declared to be of full force and effect. 2. This act to be in force from and after its passage. APPROVED February 14, 1859. AN ACT to legalize certain proceedings of the School Trustees of town. 36, R. 9, In force Febru in Will county, and of a certain school district therein. ary 19, 1859; Whereas doubts exist whether the proceedings for the forma- Preamble. tion of union school district number one, in town thirtysix, range nine, in Will county, are strictly regular; and whereas a considerable sum has been raised for the building of a school house in said district, for the purpose of removing all doubts as to the regularity of said proceedings, SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That all the Acts legalized. acts and proceedings of the school trustees of town thirtysix, range nine, in Will county, and of the school directors of union district number one, in said town, in uniting districts and levying and collecting taxes for building school house and the support of schools therein, be and the same are hereby legalized, and that all proceedings may be had in the same manner as if the said beforementioned proceedings had been strictly regular and legal. 2. This act to take effect and be in force from and after its passage. APPROVED February 19, 1859. AN ACT for the relief of the tax-payers of School District No. 1, in the town of In force Febru Princeton, Bureau county. ary 15, 1859. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That it is here- Duty of collec by made the duty of the present collector of the town of tor. Princeton, in Bureau county, to collect, of the tax levied for school building and contingent purposes, for the year 1858, in school district No. 1, in said town, the sum of seventy-five cents on each one hundred dollars of valuation in said district, or three-eighths of said tax, and no more; and the remainder of said tax, or five-eighths of said tax, is hereby remitted and declared void; and if, before being notified of the passage of this act, the said collector shall have collected any part of said school tax, it is hereby made the duty of To refund tax. said collector to refund so much of the tax so paid as shall exceed the said sum of seventy-five cents on the one hundred dollars of valuation to the person having paid such tax, or his authorized agent; and the school directors of said district of No. 1, are hereby authorized to expend such tax, when so collected, either for general school purposes or for contin gent expenses, as they shall deem expedient. Authority directors. This act to take effect from and after its passage. APPROVED January 15, 1859. In force Febru- AN ACT to relieve school District No. 1, in the town of Chenoa, in the county of ary 24, 1859. Preamble. McLean. Whereas by a misunderstanding of duty, the directors of school district No. 1, in township No. 26, of range 4 east, in said county of McLean, failed to take a census of all the children under twenty-one years of age, in said district, at the time and in the manner required by law, and are thus deprived of school moneys which otherwise might be drawn for the support of a school in said district; and whereas, by some clerical error or errors in preparing a list of tax payers, and in computing and graduating a tax for building a school house, now already erected, in said district, the officers thereof, with their constituents, are embarrassed and the property of the district endangered the collection of said tax having been prevented by an injunction issued by the circuit court of said county. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That it shall Directors may be lawful for the directors of school district No. 1, in township No. 26, range 4 east, immediately after the passage of this act, to proceed to the correction of all the errors referred to in the foregoing preamble, and to secure the levy and collection by the proper officers and in the usual form, of a tax not exceeding eight hundred dollars, for the purpose therein named. correct errors. Duty of officers § 2. It shall be the duty of all the officers upon whom the legal preparation of a tax book, in ordinary cases, for a |