equalized.

by the district board to the township clerk of each township in which such district is in part situated, and by such township clerks to the supervisors of their respective townships, and it shall be the duty of each of said supervisors to certify to each other supervisor interested the amount of taxable property in that part of the district lying in his township: Provided, That Proviso-how when there exists a manifest difference in the valuation of property assessed in fractional districts, composed of territory in adjoining townships or counties, such valuation shall be equalized for this specific purpose by the supervisors of the townships interested, at a joint meeting held for that purpose, on application of either of the supervisors of said townships. And such supervisors shall respectively ascertain the proportion of such taxes, including mill tax, to be placed on their respective assessment rolls, according to the amount of taxable poperty in each part of such district. And if said supervisors cannot agree as to the proportion of such taxes to be placed on their respective assessment rolls, a supervisor from an adjoining township shall be called to meet with said supervisors in said fractional district and assist in equalizing said valuation. Said supervisor to be paid at the rate of three dollars per diem for the time necessarily employed in attendance at such meeting of the supervisors, and all necessary traveling expenses, by the townships in interest.*

to township

($69.) SEC. 17. The supervisor, on delivery of the warrant for Statement the collection of taxes to the township treasurer, shall also treasurer. deliver to said treasurer, a written statement of the amount of school and library taxes, the amount raised for district purposes on the taxable property of each district in the township, the amount belonging to any new district on the division of the former district, and the names of all persons having judgments assessed under the provisions of this act upon the taxable property of any district, with the amount payable to such person on account thereof.

township treas

tax levied in

($70.) SEC. 18. The supervisor of each township, on the Statement to delivery of the warrant for the collection of taxes to the town- urer of one-mill ship treasurer, shall also deliver to said treasurer a written state- fractional ment, certified by him, of the amount of the one-mill tax levied district. upon any property lying within the bounds of a fractional school district, a part of which is situate within his township, and the returns of which are made to the clerk of some other township; and the said township treasurer shall pay to the township treasurer of such other township the amount of the taxes so levied and certified to him for the use of such fractional school district. (871.) SEC. 19. Whenever any portion of a school district Collection and shall be set off and annexed to any other district, or organized of taxes on into a new one, after a tax for district purposes other than the division of payment of any debts of the district shall have been levied upon the taxable property thereof, but not collected, such tax shall be collected in the same manner as if no part of such district had

As amended by Act No. 38, Public Acts of 1887, and Act No. 162, Public Acts of

apportionment

district.

All school taxes assessed to be paid next to township

expenses.

See App. A.,. ¶¶ 35, 66, 78.

See App. B. form 19.

Township treasurer to apply to

county treasur.

er for moneys.

To notify town

ship clerk of moneys.

Moneys due fractional districts.

County clerk

to receive and

munications,

been set off, and the said former district, and the district to which the portion so set off may be annexed or the new district organized from such portion, shall each be entitled to such proportion of said tax as the amount of taxable property in each part thereof bears to the whole amount of taxable property on which such tax is levied.

(§72.) SEC. 20. The township treasurer shall retain in his hands, out of the moneys collected by him, after deducting the amount of tax for township expenses, the full amount of the school taxes on the assessment roll, and hold the same subject to the warrant of the proper district officers, to the order of the school inspectors, or of the persons entitled thereto, and give a written notice to the township clerk of the amount.

($73.) SEC. 21. The township treasurer shall, from time to time, apply to the county treasurer for all school and library moneys belonging to his township, or the districts thereof; and on receipt of the moneys to be apportioned to the districts, he shall notify the township clerk of the amount to be apportioned.

(§74.) SEC. 22. Each treasurer of a township, to the clerk of which the returns of any fractional school district shall be made, shall apply to the treasurer of any other township in which any part of such fractional school district may be situated, for any money to which such district may be entitled; and when so received it shall be certified to the township clerk, and apportioned in the same manner as other taxes for school purposes.

CHAPTER V.

COUNTY CLERK AND TREASURER.

($75.) SECTION 1. It shall be the duty of each county clerk to dispose of com- receive all such communications, blanks and documents as may be directed to him by the superintendent of public instruction, and dispose of the same in the manner directed by said superintendent.

etc.

County clerk to file inspectors' reports.

Notice of apportionment of moneys.

County treas

urer to apply for moneys appropriated.

(§.6.) SEC. 2. The clerk of each county shall, on receiving from the secretary of the county board of school examiners the annual reports of the several boards of school inspectors, file the same in his office. On receiving notice from the superintendent of Public Instruction of the amount of moneys apportioned to the several townships in his county, he shall file the same in his office, and forthwith deliver a copy thereof to the county treasurer. *

(§77.) SEC. 3. The several county treasurers shall apply for and receive such moneys as shall have been apportioned to their respective counties, when the same shall become due; and each To notify town of said treasurers shall immediately give notice to the treasurer and clerk of each township in his county, of the amount of school moneys apportioned to his township, and shall hold the same subject to the order of the township treasurer.

ship clerks of amounts.

* As amended by act No. 266, public acts of 1887.

CHAPTER VI.

BONDED INDEBTEDNESS OF DISTRICTS.

borrow money

limited.

(§78.) SECTION 1. Any school district may, by a two-thirds vote Districts may of the qualified electors of said district present at any annual and issue bonds. meeting, or a special meeting called for that purpose borrow money, and may issue bonds of the district therefor, to pay for a school-house site or sites, and to erect and furnish school buildings as follows: Districts having less than thirty children Amount between five and twenty years of age may have an indebtedness not to exceed three hundred dollars; districts having thirty children of like age may have an indebtedness not to exceed five hundred dollars; districts having fifty children of like age may have an indebtedness not to exceed one thousand dollars; districts having one hundred children of like age may have an indebtedness not to exceed three thousand dollars; districts having one hundred and twenty-five children of like age, and with an assessed valuation of not less than one hundred and fifty thousand dollars, may have an indebtedness not to exceed five thousand dollars; districts having two hundred children of like age may have an indebtedness not to exceed eight thousand dollars; districts having three hundred children of like age may have an indebtedness not to exceed fifteen thousand dollars; districts having four hundred children of like age may have an indebtedness not to exceed twenty thousand dollars; districts having five hundred children of like age may have an indebtedness not to exceed twenty-five thousand dollars; and districts. having eight hundred children or more of like age may have an indebtedness not to exceed thirty thousand dollars: Provided, Proviso-time That the indebtedness of a district shall in no case extend beyond may be issued. ten years for money borrowed: Provided further, That in all proviso-regu proceedings under this section the director, assessor, and one tions to issue person appointed by the district board, shall constitute a board bonds, of inspection, who shall cause a poll-list to be kept, and a suitable ballot-box to be used, which shall be kept open two hours, and said ballotings shall be conducted in the same manner as at township elections.*

for which bonds

lations at elec

for money

($79.) SEC. 2. Whenever any school district shall have voted to Issuing bonds borrow any sum of money, the district board of such district is borrowed. hereby authorized to issue the bonds of such district, in such form, and executed in such manner by the moderator and director of such district, and in such sums, not less than fifty Interest dollars, as such district board shall direct, and with such rate of interest, not exceeding eight per centum per annum, and payable

at such time or times as the said district shall have directed.

(878.) A school district has no power to issue bonds for purposes other than those enumerated in section 3726, compiled laws, as amended by act No. 173, laws of 1879 (i. e. to pay for a school-house site or sites, and to erect and furnish school buildings.) -Kirchner, Attorney General, Nov. 5, 1880.

* As amended by act No. 56, public acts of 1887.

thereon

Voters may

(§80.) SEC. 3. Whenever any money shall have been borrowed redeem bonds. by any school district, the taxable inhabitants of such district are

raise tax to

District may borrow money to pay bonds

and issue further bonds.

Proviso.

See App. A., 11 97, 109.

Justices to have

hereby authorized at any regular meeting of such district, to impose a tax on the taxable property in such district, for the purpose of paying the principal thus borrowed, or any part thereof, and the interest thereon, to be levied and collected as other school district taxes are collected.

(§81.) SEC. 4. Any school district, whenever it shall appear that the same can be done on terms advantageous to said district, may borrow money to pay any bonded indebtedness of said district then existing, and issue further bonds of said district therefor: Provided, That a majority of the qualified voters of said district shall so determine, at an annual or special meeting called for that purpose; and that the notice of such meeting, whether annual or special, shall state the intention to take such vote.

CHAPTER VII.

SUITS AND JUDGMENTS AGAINST DISTRICTS.

($82.) SECTION 1. Justices of the peace shall have jurisdiction in all cases of assumpsit, debt, covenant and trespass on the case jurisdiction in against school districts, when the amount claimed, or matter in controversy shall not exceed one hundred dollars; and the parties shall have the same right of appeal as in other cases.

certain cases:

Sult against district, how commenced.

No execution to issue against district.

Assessor to certify to super

($83.) SEC. 2. When any suit shall be brought against a school district, it shall be commenced by summons, a copy of which shall be left with the assessor of the district at least eight days before the return day thereof.

($84.) SEC. 3. No execution shall issue on any judgment against a school district, nor shall any suit be brought thereon, but the same shall be collected in the manner prescribed in this act.

($85.) SEC. 4. Whenever any final judgment shall be obtained visor judgment against a school district, if the same shall not be removed to any against district. other court, the assessor of the district shall certify to the supervisor of the township and to the director of the district, the date and amount of such judgment, with the name of the person in whose favor the same was rendered, and if the judgment shall be removed to another court, the assessor shall certify the same as aforesaid, immediately after the final determination thereof against the district.

When assessor fails to certify,

proceed.

(§86.) SEC. 5. If the assessor shall fail to certify the judgment how party may as required in the preceding section, it shall be lawful for the party obtaining the same, his executors, administrators or assigns to file with the supervisor the certificate of the justice or clerk of the court rendering the judgment showing the facts which should have been certified by the assessor.

How judgment certified in case

(§87.) SEC. 6. If the district against whom any such judgment of fractional shall be rendered is situated in part in two or more townships, a

district.

certificate thereof shall be delivered as aforesaid to the supervisor of each township in which such district is in part situated.

assess amount

(888.) SEC. 7. The supervisor or supervisors receiving either Supervisors to of the certificates of a judgment as aforesaid shall proceed to of judgment. assess the amount thereof, with interest from the date of the judgment to the time when the warrant for the collection thereof will expire, upon the taxable property of the district, placing the same on the next township assessment roll in the column for school taxes; and the same proceedings shall be had, and the How collected same shall be collected and returned in the same manner as other district taxes.

and returned.

CHAPTER VIII.

SITES FOR SCHOOL-HOUSES.

গণ 114, 124.

ors shall deter

upon compensa

($89.) SECTION 1. The qualified voters of any school district, See App. A., when lawfully assembled, may designate by a vote of two-thirds of Voters to desigthose present, such number of sites as may be desired for school- nate sites. houses, and may change the same by a similar vote at any annual meeting. When no site can be established by such inhabitants as aforesaid, the school inspectors of the township or townships in When inspectwhich the district is situated shall determine where such site mine site, shall be, and their determination shall be certified to the director See App. B., of the district, and shall be final, subject to alteration afterward form 17. by the inspectors, on the written request of two-thirds of the qualified voters of the district, or by two-thirds of the qualified voters agreeing upon a site, at a district meeting lawfully called. (§90.) SEC. 2. Whenever a site for a school-house shall be Disagreement designated, determined, or established, in any manner provided tion for site. by law, in any school district, and such district shall be unable to agree with the owner or owners of such site upon the compensation to be paid therefor, or in case such district shall, by reason of any imperfection in the title to said site, arising either from break in the chain of title, tax sale, mortgages, levies, or any other cause, be unable to procure a perfect, unincumbered title, in fee simple to said site, the district board of such district Board to apply shall authorize one or more of its members to apply to the circuit judge, if there be one in the county, or to a circuit court commissioner of the county, or to any justice of the peace of the city or township in which such school district shall be situated, for a jury to ascertain and determine the just compensation to be made for the real estate required by such school district for such site, and the necessity for using the same, which application Contents of shall be in writing, and shall describe the real estate required by such district as accurately as is required in a conveyance of real estate: Provided, That whenever any school district shall have Proviso-evi designated, selected, or established, in any manner provided by sity for site. law, a school-house site, such selection, designation, or establishment shall be prima facie evidence to said jury of the necessity to use the site so established.

for a jury.

application.

dence of neces-