ART. 15. ] MONTGOMERY COUNTY

district, and whenever thereafter there may be any
vacancy from any cause in such office of district
school commissioners, at their first meeting after
such vacancy, appoint other competent citizens from
the respective election districts in which said vacancy
may occur.

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95. All funds in the hands of the present treasurer
of the school fund, and all other funds which may be
by any law of this state applicable to purposes of edu-
cation in said county, shall be paid directly to the
treasurer of the board of commissioners of public
schools, who may be elected under the provisions of
this act, and the balance necessary for the support of
schools, and the building of school houses, shall be
annually estimated by the board of commissioners
of public schools, who shall report the same to the
county commissioners, who are hereby authorized to
levy the sum so estimated and reported, upon the
assessable property of the county, if they shall deem
the same expedient, to be collected in the same man-
ner as other taxes are or hereafter may be collected;
the school tax when collected, shall be paid to the

To whom funds
payable.

treasurer aforesaid; provided, the levy for school pur-
poses shall never exceed one-tenth of one per cent,
on the assessable property of the county.

Proviso.

96. Each pupil shall pay to the teacher two dollars
per quarter in advance, to be considered as part of
the salary of the teacher, the aggregate of which shall
not exceed four hundred dollars, unless the parent or
guardian of said pupil shall be unable to pay the
same; in that case, the commissioner of each dis-
trict shall admit such pupil free of charge; and the
ability or inability of the parent or guardian to pay
shall be determined by the board of county school
commissioners.

In force from June 1, 1862.

Tuition fees,
what and by
whom payable