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 THIRTY—SEVENTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 77. 1862. 399 sioners aforesaid, such trustee signing such certificate or report shall forfeit and pay double the amount so fraudulently obtained to the commissioners of primary schools, to be recovered, with costs of suit, by action of debt before any court of justice, or any justice of the peace having cognizauce thereof; in the name of said commissioners; and such sum, exclusive of the cost of suit, shall be applied, when recovered, to the use of the primary school in such district. Sec. 19. And be it further enacted, That the said trustees shall keep Trustees as an account of their proceedings in a, book kept for that purpose, and shall k€€,P ¤°°°“”* of also keep an account against the district collector for the sums authorized  pr°°°€d` to be collected, and for other sums paid into his hands, and shall give him Collector credit for the sums legally paid by him, also for his legal commissions, ` and for such taxes as cannot be collected by legal steps and proper diligence; and that said collector shall have the keeping of all moneys col— lected by him, and other sums paid into his hands, subject to the written order of a majority of the trustees, drawn in favor of such persons having claims against said school district, and he shall report to the trustees whenever required the amount of funds in his hands and a full statement of his accounts. Seo. 20. And 6e it further enacted, That the trustees of any primary Trustees may school district in said county shall be and they are hereby authorized, in ;f‘l“"Zh£gi"Q§§E their discretion, to require from any child attending school the payment dg3f of any sum of money not exceeding one dollar a month, to be applied to the payment of the expenses of said district school; and in the exercise of this power the trustees aforesaid may, from time to time, discontinue the payment thereof altogether, or may graduate the payments according to the ability of the children and the exigencies of the school. Sec. 21. And be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of the big <‘:“g;‘;‘;;fs trustees of each school district, whenever a district meeting shall have voted a distriet tax, as soon as may be, to make a rate bill or tax list, which shall raise the sum voted for, in due proportion on all the taxable property in such district, agreeably to the assessment of the last preceding county tax, and to annex to such tax list or rate bill a warrant, and to deliver the same to the collector of such district, which warrant shall to denver wsrbe substantially as follows: "“‘° t" °°u°°t°"‘ " Comvrr or Wasmusrou, D. C., ss. pom, of wu. To ——-— —-, collector of the —— district in the county aforesaid, rant greeting: You are hereby required and commanded to collect from each of the inhabitants of said district the several sums of money written opposite to the name of each of said inhabitants in the annexed tax list, and within sixty days after receiving this warrant to pay the amount of the moneys by you collected to the order of the trustees of said district ora majority of them; and if any one or more of said inhabitants shall neglect or refuse to pay the same, you are hereby further commanded to levy on the goods and chattels of each delinquent, and make sale thereof according to law. Given under our hands and seals this ——· day [of] ""'*, A.; Do in P7 Q, }Trustees." Ra And if the sum or sums payable by any person named in such tax list or rate bill shall not be paid by him or collected by virtue of said warrant within the time therein limited, it shall be lawful for the trustees aforesaid to renew such warrant in respect to such delinquent person or nersons. Sec. 22. And be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of the grim 12M:; trustees of each district to make a report to the commissioners of primary §;’mmim0mg_ schools on or before the thirty-first day of December in each year, in Commits of which report shall be stated the sums received from different sources, the report,