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 THIHTY—SEVENTH CONGRESS. Sess. H. Ch. 77. 1862. 397 no location of a school-house shall be fixed upon unless the same be approved by a majority of the commissioners, and no change shall be made after such school-house shall have been built but by consent of a majority of said commissioners; all the expenses incurred by making such change shall be defrayed by donation or by levies authorized to be made by a majority of the white citizens of such school district upon the assessable property therein owned by white persons. Sec. 10. And be it further enacted, That the clerk of the Levy Court Copies of asshall annually, without fee or reward, make out for the trustees of pri- €gss;‘;°’;;agg°E; mary school districts, or such of them as shall apply for the same, copies trustees from the assessment books of said county of all the assessable property in said district or districts. Sec. 11. And be it further enacted, That all meetings' of the school M¤¢*i¤}s¤_<>*` districts, held for the purpose aforesaid, shall be organized by appointing ;g;fg,,gf,:f;§_’ a president and clerk pro tempore, who shall take minutes of the proceedings, specifying particularly the amount of tax voted by said meetings, _Reoords ofmeetand deliver the same, certified under their hands and seals, within ten ”’“· days after such meeting, to the commissioners of primary schools, or any one of them, to be delivered by them or him to the clerk of the commissioners, and by him to be recorded in a book kept for that purpose. Sec. 12. And be itfurt/ter enacted, That all tax to be voted by the citi- Tax, upon zens of any and every school district in said county, under and by virtue ZS? °° b° 1°` of this act, shall be levied on all the assessable property in said district ` " owned by white persons, agreeably to the assessments of the last preceding county tax. SEO. 13. And be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of the School tax to Levy Co’urt of the county aforesaid, at their first meeting after the pas- be levi? ff Pd" sage of this act, and in each succeeding year thereafter, when the annual mary Be 00 s’ county levy is made, to impose and levy a school tax of one eighth of one per cent. on all the assessable property of said county, without the limits of the cities of Washington and Georgetown, owned by white persons, for the support of primary schools hereby authorized in said county, which tax shall be due at the same time, and shall be collected by the county when and how collector in the same manner and under the same regulations and restric- *0 be 001190*6- tions as are prescribed by law in relation to the collection of other county taxes, and which are hereby made applicable to the collection of the school tax imposed by this act, and when collected shall be paid to the treasurer of the Levy Court, who is hereby constituted and appointed treasurer of the primary school fund for said county, and who shall School treasqualify by making oath or amrmation that he will well and faithfully ‘“°"‘ discharge the duties required of him by law as treasurer of the school fund for said county, and not use the same to his own use or advantage, and he shall also give bond to the United States, with two good and sufficient sureties, conditioned for the faithful discharge of the duties required of him by this act, which bond, being approved by the commissioners of B<>¤d· primary schools aforesaid, shall be nled with the Clerk of the Circuit Court of the District of Columbia, who is hereby required to file the same without fee or reward; and a copy of the said bond, under seal of said court, shall be sufficient evidence of the making thereof Sec. 14. And be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of the Tmsm, to trustees of each school district, whenever a district meeting shall have provide schoolvoted a sufficient tax for that purpose, to purchase a suitable site for &‘;‘?°p0b‘;‘;‘;i0y their school·house, and to build, keep in repair, and furnish such school- tggdhgyg and pay house with necessary fuel, books, stationery, and appendages; and it shall thembe the further duty of the trustees aforesaid to agree with and employ all teachers to be employed in such district: Provided, That no teachers shall be employed by them who shall not have received the certificate of approbation from the commissioners of primary schools aforesaid, as hereinbefore provided; and it shall be the further duty of the trustees to