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be and the same is hereby divided into two school districts, All that portion of said town lying south of the corporate limits of said city of Chicago and west of the centre of Stewart avenue, shall constitute one district, and shall be known and named "South Chicago School District Number District No. 1. One," and shall, in all things, be subject to said act, approved, as aforesaid, February 23d, 1847. And that part of said town 39, lying south of the corporate limits of said city, and east of the centre of said Stewart avenue, shall constitute another school district, and shall be known and named "South Chicago School District Number Two."

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§ 2. It shall be the duty of the agent of the school fund, appointed by the common council of the city of Chicago, into whose hands the school taxes for the year 1855, assessed upon the property lying and being in said town, and south of the said corporate limits of said city, are paid by the collector, to divide the same equally between the said school districts, disbursing the portion of the said school district number one in accordance with the requirements of the aforesaid act of 1847, and disbursing the portion of said school district number two only upon a written order of a majority of the school directors, hereafter required to be chosen under the provisions of this act.

3. For the purpose of erecting a school house and purchasing a site therefor, and for repairing and improving the same, procuring furniture, fuel and district library, and for the purpose of paying the balance due teachers, after the state and township funds are exhausted, the board of directors of said school district number two, shall be authorized to have levied and collected annually a tax on all the property in the said district. And it is further provided, that the legal voters of said district number two may, at the first election for directors herein provided for, by a majority of the votes then cast, determine what rate per cent. shall be levied and collected on the assessed value of the property in said district number two for the purposes of erecting a school house and purchasing a site therefor; and in case the legal voters shall vote for such levy, the same shall be certified to the clerk of Cook county court by the presiding offiDuty of clerk. cer of said election, who shall immediately thereupon make, according to the rate or rates certified, a tax book, and shall compute each taxable person's tax in said district, taking as a basis the total amount of taxable property returned by the town assessor for the year 1858, lying and being in said district, whether belonging to residents or non-residents; and also each and every tract of land, assessed by the assessor, which lies, or the largest part of which lies in said district. The said county clerk shall cause each person's tax so computed to be set upon said tax book, which said clerk shall do within thirty days after filing of said certificate, and shall deliver the same to such persons

as the board of directors may designate as the collector thereof; and they are hereby authorized to choose such col- Collector. lector, who shall give bond to said district number two, in the same manner as the township collector, and who shall have the same powers and be liable to the same penalties, in all respects, as town collectors; and the said collector shall proceed and collect said taxes within sixty days from the time of the delivery of said tax book, and shall be entitled to such remuneration therefor as shall be agreed upon by and Compensation. between him and said directors, not exceeding two dollars per day while actually engaged. The said tax last provided

is to be deemed a special tax, for the sole purpose of erect- Special tax. ing a school house and purchasing a site therefor, and is in addition to the annual tax.

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4. It shall be the duty of the legal voters of said dis- Election of ditrict number two to meet at "The Shades," in said district, or other convenient place in said district (and when the school house is erected then thereat) on the first Saturday of April, A. D. 1859, between the hours of two and six o'clock P. M. of said day, and on the first Saturday of April biennially thereafter, and elect three persons within the district and legal voters thereof, to be styled "School Directors," who shall continue in office two years and until their successors are elected and qualified. In case, at any time, said election, for any reason, should fail to be held, then the same may Failure to hold be held on the first Saturday of any month, by notice being posted up in three of the most public places in said district, for at least ten days before said election, signed by at least ten legal voters of said district. The legal voters, when assembled, as aforesaid, shall choose one of their number moderator, and one clerk, who shall conduct said election, as near as may be, according to the general school law of the state, approved February 16th, 1857, in relation to the election of school directors. Said election shall be by ballot, Manner of elecand in case of a tie, it shall be determined by lot by the judges on the day of election. In case of a vacancy in the board, at any time, the unexpired term shall be filled by the remaining directors. The said moderator and clerk shall make returns of said election, and the votes taken thereat, Returns. to the county clerk, within five days after such election. Said returns shall be opened by said county clerk as soon as may be, and he shall grant certificates of election to the three persons who shall by the returns seem to have the greatest number of votes. In case of contested elections, Contest. the contest shall be determined in the same manner provided by law for contesting the election of justices of the peace. The said school directors, as soon after their election as practicable, shall choose one of their number clerk, who shall keep a record of all the official acts of the board, in a book to be Record.. provided for that purpose; and shall also choose one of their number president of the said board..

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5. The board of directors for said district number two shall have the same power and shall perform the like duties within said district that are possessed and performed by the trustees and inspectors of common schools in the city of Chi

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$ 6. The board of directors aforesaid shall be deemed and corporate. and are hereby declared a body politic and corporate, by the name of "School Directors of South Chicago School Dis trict Number Two," and by that name may sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, answer and be answered unto [in] all courts and places whatever, and shall have perpetual succession; and all contracts entered into by them shall be signed by the president and clerk of the board, for and in behalf of said corporation, as also all orders, receipts and other papers.

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7. That whenever it may be found that the provisions of this act and the provisions of the charter and ordinances of the city of Chicago, in relation to common schools, do not sufficiently provide for any and every exigency that may arise in regard to the establishment and maintenance of a common school in said district, then and in such cases the board of school directors shall be governed by the act entitled "An act to establish and maintain a system of free schools," approved February 16th, 1857, so far as the same may be practicable.

of § 8. Upon the directors of said district number two certifying to the county clerk of Cook county the per centum which they have levied upon the assessed value of the property of said district, as the same shall be valued by the assessor, he shall add to the tax list levied by the board of supervisors of Cook county, upon the property in said district, in a separate column, the tax levied by the school directors of said district, and the same shall be collected by the collector, as other taxes, in money, and paid by him to the agent of the school fund, appointed by the common council of the city of Chicago, who shall keep a separate account of the same and disburse it only upon the written orders of a majority of said directors.

Amount of mo- § 9. The said school directors are hereby authorized to be draw from the agent of the school fund of the city of Chicago, monthly, such an amount as said district shall be entitled to, in proportion to its number of inhabitants between the ages of five and twenty-one years, as compared with the whole number of inhabitants in said city, out of the interest of the school fund in said township: Provided, a common school shall be established and maintained in said district, and said money drawn and appropriated solely for the payment of teachers' wages.

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§ 10. No person shall be employed as teacher of the school in said district, unless he or she shall procure a certificate of his or her competency to take charge of the same,

rom the superintendent or inspectors of the common schools of the city of Chicago.

§ 11. This act shall be taken and deemed a public act, and shall be in force from and after the date of its approval. APPROVED February 18, 1859.

AN ACT to authorize the trustees of schools of town four north, of range three In force Febru east, in Marion county, to sell school land therein mentioned.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That the trustees of schools of town four north, of range three east, in Marion county, be and they are hereby authorized to sell, at such time and on such credit as they may deem for the interest of education in said township, a part of the southeast quarter of the southeast quarter and a part of the northeast quarter of the northeast quarter of the southeast quarter of section sixteen, in said township and county, containing in all ten acres.

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§ 2. That upon the sale of the said land by the said trus- Deed. tees, as aforesaid, they shall execute and deliver to the purchaser thereof a deed, in fee simple, in their official character as trustees of schools; and said deed shall vest the legal title to said land in the purchaser thereof.

3. The money arising from the sale of said land, after Proceeds. deducting the cost attending the same, shall be deposited by the said trustees with the school treasurer of said township, and to be by him put at interest as other school funds, and shall forever remain as a part of the common school fund for said township.

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4. This act shall be in force from and after its passage. APPROVED February 23, 1859.

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AN ACT for the benefit of School District No. three, township five north, of range In force Febru eight west, in the county of Hancock, and State of Illinois.

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Whereas the school directors of said school district did, in Preamble. the year A. D. 1855, assess a tax of fifty cents on each hundred dollars worth of taxable property in said school district, for the purpose of building a school house in said district; and whereas the clerk of the county court of Hancock county, by an oversight, did not extend said tax against the town lots of the original town plat of the town of Hamilton, in said district; and whereas, by such over

sight, there was a deficiency of one hundred and sixty-two dollars in said tax; therefore,

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That the clerk Duty of clerk. of the county court of Hancock county be and he is hereby authorized and required to assess such a per cent. against the valuation of the town lots of the original town plat of said town of Hamilton, for the year A. D. 1859, as will raise a sum equivalent to one hundred and sixty-two dollars, with ten per cent. interest from the first day of January, A. D.

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2. This act to take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

APPROVED February 14, 1859.

In force February 22, 1859.

AN ACT to change the boundaries of certain School Districts therein named.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That all the Dists. changed. fractional parts of sections No. five (5) and six (6,) in township No. thirty-five (35) north, of range five (5) east of the third principal meridian, lying north of Fox river, be attached to town No. thirty-six (36) north, of range five (5) east of the third principal meridian, for all school purposes; also, that all of the fractional parts of sections No. twenty-five (25,) thirty-three (33,) thirty-four (34,) thirty-five (35) and thirtysix (36,) in township No. thirty-six (36,) be attached to township No. thirty-five north, of range No. five east of the 3d principal meridian, for all school purposes.

§ 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

APPROVED February 22, 1859.

In force Feb'y AN ACT to amend an act entitled "An act to change the boundary lines of a cer23, 1859.

tain school district therein named."

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That hereDistrict formed after the southwest quarter of section numbered thirty-five (35,) the south half of section numbered thirty-four ( 34,) and the southeast quarter of section numbered thirty-three (33,) in township numbered four (4) north, range numbered ten (10) east; also, the west half of section num

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