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Rh of school were maintained during the school year ending the first of September just preceding (Act 15, 1895).

The supervisor assesses upon the taxable property of his township one mill upon each dollar of valuation, reports the aggregate valuation of each district to the township clerk, who reports said amount to the director of each school district in his township, or to the director of any fractional school district a portion of which may be located in the township, before the first day of September of each year; and all moneys so raised are apportioned by the township clerk to the district in which it was raised.

All money collected by virtue of this law during the year on any property not included in any organized district, or in districts not having, during the previous school year, three months&rsquo; school in districts of less than thirty children, or five months&rsquo; school in districts of thirty and less than eight hundred children, or nine months&rsquo; school in districts of eight hundred or more children, as shown by the last school census, is apportioned to the several other school districts of said township, in the same manner as the primary school interest fund. All moneys accruing from the the one-mill tax in any township, before any district shall have a legal school therein, belongs to the districts in which it was raised, when they shall severally have had a three months&rsquo; school by a qualified teacher (5091).

The voters of the district have authority to appropriate any surplus moneys arising from the one-mill tax, after having maintained a school in the district at least eight months in the school year, for the purpose of purchasing and enlarging school sites, or for building or repairing school houses, or for purchasing books for library,