like end, devolves, to fulfill their respective obligations in these premises with a promptness which shall place the requisite tax books in the hands of the collector of the said township, on or before the first day of March next, A. D. 1859. 3. It shall be the duty of the said collector to make Duty of colleccollection of the said tax, and deliver over the amount to tor. the authorized treasurer of the said township, for the use aforesaid, on or before the first day of April, A. D. 1859, reserving per cent. for his the said collector's services. 4. The penalty for neglect of any officer concerned in Penalty these premises, shall be the same as that which is defined neglect. as pertaining to his office in case of neglect in other like duties. 5. This act shall be in force from and after its passage. APPROVED February 24, 1859. for AN ACT relating to certain schools and school property in Adams county. In force Febru. ary 18, 1859. Whereas by an act entitled "An act to create a school dis- Preamble. trict therein named," approved February eighth, 1853, a school district was established of certain territory in the county of Adams, called "Union School District"; and whereas said school district afterwards acquired certain grounds and school edifices thereon for the use of schools situate in said district and paid for with money raised by taxation in said district; and whereas afterwards, by the operation of an act entitled "An act in relation to the city of Quincy, and for other purposes therein expressed," approved February 16th, 1857, the said first named act was repealed and out of a portion of said union school district, that is to say, the west half of section six, in township two south, in range eight west, in said Adams county, a school district was established, called "School District Number Two," being in the town of Melrose, and within and upon which said grounds and school edifices are situated; and whereas, by and under supposed authority conferred by said last named act, certain persons, in said act named, sold and conveyed said grounds and school edifices unto James C. Sprague, the consideration for which remains unpaid, and which consideration money cannot be equitably disposed of under said act; and whereas said Sprague has made certain valuable improvements to the same edifices since said conveyance; and whereas, on account of doubts as to the title acquired under said conveyance and the impracticability of a distribution or application of the proceeds of said sale, under said act, the said Sprague is willing to release the said grounds and edifices unto the school directors of said school district number two, upon the payment of the value of said improvements; therefore, SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That the school Directors em directors of school district number two, in the town of Melpowered to raise money rose, in the county of Adams, be and they are hereby by taxation. Directors may grounds. empowered to raise money, by taxation, for the payment of the debts of said district and the amount and value of the improvements made by James C. Sprague upon the school property and edifices situate in said school district, and formerly held as the school property of "Union School District," in said county of Adains; and for that purpose said directors may make out and file with the clerk of the county court of said county of Adams an estimate and certificate of the amount of funds required for such purpose and other school purposes therein, for the year 1859, or any subsequent year together with a list of the tax payers of said district as the said district shall be composed at the time of making such estimate in manner required in case of taxation for district purposes by the general school laws of this state; and the same proceedings shall be had upon said estimate and certificate by the said clerk and other authority and by the proper collector in the collection thereof, as is provided by the general school laws of this state in case of taxation for paying teachers and other district purposes. 2. The directors of said school district may, upon the dispose of the execution of a deed of quit-claim to them of said grounds and edifices thereon, by said James C. Sprague, dispose of any surplus or unnecessary portion or portions of said grounds and school property and the proceeds thereof apply to the payment of the debts of said district and payment of the amount and value of the said improvements thereto made as aforesaid, instead of raising the same moneys by taxation, as aforesaid, if, in their judgment, the same be advisable; and upon such sale or disposition may execute sufficient conveyance thereof. Change of the district. Proviso. Directors may 3. The inhabitants of all or any portion of the district of country embraced in said "Union School District" created by an act entitled "An act to create a school district therein named," approved February 8th, 1853, may become a portion of the said school district number two, at their election, by filing by the head of any family desiring to become united therewith with the town clerk of the town of Melrose, a written application for that purpose: Provided, all such applications shall be made prior to the first day of May, A. D. 1859. 4. The school directors of said district may hereafter, sell grounds should they deem the same advisable, sell the said grounds edifices. and school edifices, and the proceeds thereof apply to obtain and the school ing other grounds in said district and the erection of a school editice thereon, on the petition for that purpose of a majority of the legal voters of said district; and in case of sale may execute proper conveyance for the same. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. APPROVED Feb. 18, 1859. AN ACT entitled An act in relation to School District No. one, in township In force Feb'y Whereas the inhabitants of all that part of township No. two Preamble. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of District changIllinois, represented in the General Assembly, That all that ed. part of sections thirty-five (35) and thirty-six (36,) in said town-hip, lying south of Bear creek, be and the same is permanently attached to and shall hereafter form a part of school district No. one (1,) in township one (1) north, range nine (9) west, in said Adams county; and the inhabitants thereof shall be entitled to and possess all the powers, privileges, rights and immunities of other school districts now provided for by law. 2. This act to be in force from and after its passage. APPROVED February 24, 1859. 26, 1859. AN ACT entitled an act to permit the trustees of schools for township 2 north, In force April range & west, in Adams county, Illinois, to purchase and receive a deed from Marcelline Lodge No. 114, for an undivided half or moiety of lot 22, in Payne's addition to the town of Marcelline in said Adams county, authorized. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Conveyance Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That the proper officers, Allen Wait, master, John W. Richards, senior warden, and Elickim Johnson, junior warden, being officers of Marcelline Lodge, No. 114, of Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, or their successors in office, are hereby authorized to convey unto the trustees of schools of township two north, range eight west, in the county of Adams, and state of Illinois, for the use and benefit of school district No. 4, of said township, one undivided half or moiety of lot No. 12, in Payne's addition to the town of Marcelline, in said Adams county, Illinois, to be used for school purposes in said district; and the said trustees of schools of said township are hereby permitted and authorized, if they deem it advisable to do so, to receive said deed of conveyance and to make payment therefor. APPROVED February 24, 1859. In force February 9, 1859. District created. Benefits. AN ACT to create an additional school district in Brown county. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That an additional school district be created in the county of Brown, to include the following sections and parts of sections of land, in said county to-wit: All of section 6 and west half of section 5, township 1 south, range 3 west; all of section 1, township 1 south, range 4 west; all of section 36, township 1 north, range 4 west; all of section 31, and south half of section 30, township 1 north, range 3 west of the 4th P. M. $2. Be it further enacted, That said school district, so created, be and the same is hereby declared to be one of the school districts of Brown county, and as such entitled to all the benefits and subject to all the provisions of the laws of the state of Illinois relating to common schools, $3. This act to take effect and be in force from and after its passage. APPROVED February 9, 1859. In force February 14, 1859. District created. Election for directors. AN ACT to create a certain School District therein named. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That the inhabitants residing upon section number six, in township 3 south, range 8 west, and section 31, in township 2 south, range 8 west, and section number 1, in township number 3 south, range 9 west, and section number 36, in township 2 south, range 9 west of the third principal meridian, be and the same is hereby created a school district, with all the rights and privileges which other districts under the school law of this state may exercise and possess. § 2. That the inhabitants of said school district, upon giving ten days' notice of the time and place of holding an election, elect three school directors, on or before the first day of April, 1859, who shall hold their office and discharge the dies of school directors of said district for one year and nil their successors are elected and qualified. 3. That the teachers of schools in said district shall Schedules, keep separate schedules of the scholars residing upon each of said sections attending the school or schools of said district, and said separate schedules shall be kept, certified and returned, as now required by law, to the trustees of the townships, severally, of which said district is composed; and it shall be the duty of the trustees of the respective townships aforesaid to pay out of the school fund, upon the schedules so certified to them, the amount which by law shall be due, in like manner as upon other schedules of schools taught in said township. 4. This act to be in force from and after its passage. APPROVED February 14, 1859 AN ACT to amend an act entitled "An act to form a fractional township, for In force Febru school purposes, in the county of Jackson," approved February 18th, 1851. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That so much ary 24, 1859. of the first section of said act as reads "township seven (7) Act amended, north, range five (5) west," be and the same is hereby so amended as to read "township seven (7) south, range five (5) west." $2. This act to take effect and be in force from and after Certified copy. its passage, and that the secretary of state certify a copy hereof to the clerk of the county court of Jackson county, upon its passage. APPROVED February 24, 1859, AN ACT amendatory of an act entitled "An act in relation to that part of town- In force Feb. ship. north, of range 14 east of the third principal meridian, in relation to school," approved February 28d, 1817. 18, 1859. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinos, represented in the General Assembly, That all that part of township thirty-nine north, of range fourteen east of District dividthe tha principal meridian, in Cook county, which lies south ed. of the corporate limits of the city of Chicago, and which is by an act of the general assembly of the state of Illinois, approved February 23d, 1847, made and constituted a school district, by the name of "South Chicago School District," |