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CHAP. LXXXI.] funded, and may authorize the clerk of the district to amend and correct such error in said tax list.

. 49. Whenever any district tax, lawfully assessed, shall be paid by any person on account of any real estate whereof he is only a tenant, such tenant may charge and collect of the owner of such estate the amount of tax so paid by him, unless some agreement to the contrary shall have been made by the tenant.

. 50. It shall be the duty of the register of deeds of each county, as soon as the annual assessment roll shall be completed in each year, to make out for each district in such county, a description of all taxable property therein, with the valuations affixed thereto, as the same shall appear in the last assessment roll, which shall be certified by him and delivered to the clerk of each school district in the county.

. 51. Whenever the inhabitants of two or more school districts may wish to unite for the purpose of establishing a graded school in which instruction shall be given in the higher branches of education, the clerks of the several districts shall, upon written application of five voters of the respective districts, call a meeting of the voters of such districts, at some convenient place, by posting up written notices thereof in like manner as provided for calling district meetings, and if a majority of the voters of each of the two or more districts shall vote to unite for the purpose herein stated, they shall at that meeting or at an adjourned meeting, elect a board of directors, consisting of a director, clerk, and treasurer.

. 52. The board of directors, provided in the preceding section, shall, in all matters relating to the graded schools, possess all the powers and discharge all the like duties of the district board of directors as prescribed in this act.

. 53. The union district thus formed, shall be entitled to an equitable share of the school funds, to be drawn from of the treasurer of each district so uniting, in proportion to the number of white children attending the said graded school for each district.

. 54. The said union district may levy taxes for the