CHAPTER 230. DISORGANIZING DISTRICT No. 82, THOMAS COUNTY. AN ACT to disorganize school district number eighty-two, in Thomas county, Kansas, and to attach the territory thereof to adjoining school districts. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Kansas: SECTION 1. That school district number eighty-two in Thomas county, Kansas, is hereby disorganized ; and the superintendent of public instruction of said county is hereby authorized and directed to attach the territory thereof to adjoining school districts for school purposes. And the county superintendent shall be authorized to divide the property and money of said district equitably. SEC. 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its publication in the official state paper. Approved March 12, 1897. Published in official state paper April 14, 1897. CHAPTER 231. CONSOLIDATING DISTRICTS, WALLACE COUNTY. AN ACT authorizing the county superintendent of public instruction of Wallace county, Kansas, to consolidate partially depopulated school districts and to regulate the terms of school in such districts. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Kansas: SECTION 1. That the school district board of any school district in Wallace county, having a school population of less than five pupils, shall not have the power to maintain its school or levy taxes for that purpose. SEC. 2. The county superintendent of Wallace county shall, when two or more adjoining districts have less than five pupils each, of school age, combine the pupils of such districts and provide for a term of school, which shall be divided among the districts consolidated as he shall deem most convenient, and to which the pupils of each shall be admitted; he shall prorate the expense between the districts in proportion to the number of pupils from each, and shall certify to the county clerk on or before the twenty-fifth of August of each year the amount of taxes necessary to maintain such school and the rate per district. SEC. 3. Whenever the school population of any districts so combined shall become less than eight, no term of school shall be held, but provision shall be made by the county superintendent for sending pupils to other schools as now provided by law in the case of districts which vote to have no school. SEC. 4. That for the purpose of this act the census of the district by the last annual report of the district clerk shall determine the school population of the district. SEC. 5. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its publication in the statute book. Approved March 12, 1897. CHAPTER 232. DISTRICT No. 8, WASHINGTON COUNTY. AN ACT to disorganize school district number eight, in Washington county, Kansas, and empowering the county superintendent to attach the same to adjoining districts. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Kansas: SECTION 1. That school district number eight in Washington county, Kansas, be and is hereby, disorganized, and the county superintendent of public instruction of said county, be and is hereby, empowered to attach the territory thereof to adjoining districts in said county of Washington, and divide the property of said district equitably. SEC. 2. This act to take effect and be in force from and after its publication in the statute book. Approved March 5, 1897. CHAPTER 233. DISORGANIZE DISTRICTS, WICHITA COUNTY. AN ACT to disorganize certain school districts in Wichita county, Kansas, and attach the territory so disorganized to other districts in said county. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Kansas: SECTION 1. That school districts number eighteen and nineteen, in Wichita county, be and hereby are disorganized, and the territory thereof be attached to district thirty-eight, in said county; also district four, be disorganized and the territory attached to district forty-five, of said county; also that district thirty-one be disorganized and the territory thereof be divided by a line drawn from southwest corner of section eighteen, township twenty, range thirty-five, to the southeast corner of section thirteen, township and range above mentioned, and the territory north of said line be attached to district twenty-nine, in said Wichita county; and the territory south of said line be attached to district twenty-eight of said Wichita county; also that district six be disorganized and that the territory thereof attached to district fourteen of said Wichita county; also that the territory described as follows: East half of section thirty-four, and all of section thirty-five, and thirty-six, township eighteen, range thirty-seven, in Wichita county, the same being a part of district seven, be and hereby is attached to district one, of said Wichita county, Kansas. The county superintendent shall divide the money and property equitably. SEC. 2. This act to take effect and be enforced from and after its publication in the statutes. Approved March 11, 1897. CHAPTER 234. DISTRICT No. 10, WOODSON COUNTY, DISSOLVED. AN ACT to declare the organization of school district number ten, Woodson county, Kansas, dissolved and empowering the county superintendent to dispose of all property now on hand or which shall hereafter be collected. SECTION 1. That the organization known as school district number ten of Woodson county is hereby dissolved and the county superintendent of public instruction for said county is hereby authorized and empowered to dispose of all property and to make such disposition of the territory composing said district number ten as in her judgment may seem best and also to proportion such funds as may be now on hand or shall hereafter be collected among the districts to which the territory may be allotted. SEC. 2. This act shall take effect and be in force after its publication in the official state paper. Approved February 16, 1897. Published in official state paper February 26, 1897. CHAPTER 235. REPEALING SILK-CULTURE ACT. AN ACT entitled an act to repeal an act entitled an act, for the encouragement of silk culture, and for the dissemination thereof, and for the education of reelers, and to make an appropriation therefor. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Kansas: SECTION 1. That sections 167, 168, 169, 170, and 171 of article 14, of chapter 99 of the revised statutes of 1889, and all other acts or parts of acts in conflict with this act is hereby repealed. SEC. 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its publication in the official state paper. Approved February 18, 1897. Published in official state paper February 26, 1897. |