EMERSON C. HARRINGTON, GOVERNOR. 1013

the advice of the county superintendent, an itemized and de-
tailed school budget, showing the amount of money needed for
permanent improvements and repairs, and for current repairs,
furniture for old buildings, maintenance and support of the
schools during the succeeding school year, also the estimated
total amount that will be received from the state, which shall
be used for paying teachers' salaries and purchasing text-books,
materials of instruction and school supplies; and finally the
amount that will be needed to be raised by local taxation. This
annual school budget shall be submitted in writing, not less
than twenty days before the usual date for levying county
taxes, to the board of county commissioners; at the same time
a copy of this annual budget shall. also be submitted to the
board of county commissioners and to the state superintendent
of schools. The board of county commissioners are hereby
authorized, empowered, directed and required to levy and col-
lect such tax upon the assessable property of the county as
will produce the amount requested to be raised by local taxa-
tion in the annual budget of the county board of education.
The amount requested in the annual budget of the county board
of education for current repairs, furniture in old buildings,
maintenance and support of the schools, for the succeeding
school year, and to be raised by local taxation shall not here-
after in any year be less than a minimum tax. levied and col-
lected, of 34 cents on each one hundred dollars ($100) of
the assessable property in the county. Provided that if in
any county the tax levied and collected for the school year end-
ing July thirty-first, 1916, for current repairs, furniture in
old buildings, maintenance and support of the schools, was
less than 34 cents on each one hundred dollars ($100) of
assessable property in the county, such county shall only be
required to increase its total tax rate for the schools annually
by 2 cents on each one hundred dollars ($100) of the assess-
able property in the county, until the tax levied and collected
for current repairs, furniture in old buildings, maintenance and
support of the schools in any one school year, shall equal a
minimum tax levied and collected of 34 cents on each one hun-
dred dollars ($100) of the assessable property of the county.
Provided, further, that the total amount requested for any one
school year by the county board of education for permanent
improvements and repairs, current repairs, furniture in old
buildings, maintenance and support of the schools shall not
exceed a tax levied and collected of 40 cents on each one hun-