SCHOOLS.

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pursue the following mode : they shall ascertain the aggregate
valuation of the real estate within their district, and also the
aggregate valuation of the personal estate; shall deduct one-
third part of the aggregate valuation of the real estate, and
adding the remaining two-thirds to the aggregate valuation of
personal estate, shall assess and levy upon the amount thus
produced, a certain rate or sum in every hundred dollars, so as
to produce the said sum of one hundred and fifty dollars, or as
nearly as can be ; and in ascertaining and assessing the amount
of each individual owner of property, the same process shall
be observed, where real and personal estate shall be owned by
the same individual, and where only personal estate is owned,
the tax shall be laid upon the assessed value of such estate,
according to the rate aforesaid.

Method of
assessing.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That the lists required to be fur-
nished to the trustees by the commissioners of the tax, or by
their clerk, in the act passed at December session, eighteen
hundred and thirty-three, chapter one hundred and thirteen,
the said commissioners, or their clerk, shall designate the
amount of assessment of real estate, and also of personal estate,
of each person embraced in the lists.

Specifica-
tion re-
quired in
levy list.

SEC, 4. And be it enacted. That the proceedings to obtain a
sale of any real estate to pay any unliquidated school tax or
arrearages of the same, shall be the same in all respect as is
used to effect the sale of land to pay county rates, and the du-
ties of collectors of school tax, and of the commissioners of the
tax and their clerk, shall be the same in this respect as are
directed by law in regard to sales by collectors for county as-
sessments, and that the right and obligation of tenants to pay
the school tax, and to deduct the amount from their rent, shall
be the same as is now provided in reference to county rates.

Regulation
in regard to
collection.

SEC. 5. And be it enacted, That all the white children of the
said districts, shall have the privilege of being taught in said
schools free of any charge for tuition, except children residing
in said districts having property elsewhere, not taxed for the
support of schools in this state, and none in said districts where
they reside, or whose parents have property thus situated, who
shall be liable to charges for tuition, to be regulated by the
trustees, or a majority of them, and for books and stationery,

Right to
tuition free
of charge.
Exception.

if furnished, if the trustees, or a majority of them, shall be of
opinion that such children, or parents of such children, are
able to liquidate such charges, and if, in the judgment of such
trustees, or a majority of them, it shall be expedient and pro-

Discretion.

per to make and demand such charges ; Provided, that nothing
herein contained shall be construed to prevent children, living
in one district, and possessing, or the parents of such children
possessing, property in another district, from receiving and en-

Proviso.