WILLIAM GRASON, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

1838.

authorised to be made by a majority of the citizens
of such school district, upon the assessable properly
therein.

CHAP. 327.

Sec. 9. And be it enacted, That all meetings of cit-
izens of school districts held for the purposes afore-
said, shall be organised by appointing a president and

Organization of

such meetings.

clerk, pro tempore, who shall take minutes of the pro-
ceedings, specifying particularly the amount of tax
voted by said meeting, and deliver the same, certified
under the hands and seals, within ten days after such
meeting to the manager of the election district, in

Report proceed-
ings.

which such meeting is held, to be by him delivered to
the clerk of the said managers and by him to be re-
corded in a book to be kept for the purpose.

To be recorded.

Sec. 10. And be it enacted, That all tax to be voted

trict in said county, under and by virtue of this act,
shall be levied on all the assessable property in said
district, agreeably to the assessments of the late pre-
ceeding county tax excepting nevertheless, the proper-
ty assessed to and actually owned by free negroes.

Levy of school dis-

trict tax.

Sec. 11. And be it enacted, That when any land, in
any school district in said county, may become charge-
able for the payment of any school tax, and the col-
lector can find no personal property in said school dis-
trict liable for, or chargeable with, the payment of the

Case of collector

finding no proper-

ty.

same, the said collector shall return to the said mana-
gers, a list of said lands and the amount of taxes
thereon respectively due, and the names of the persons
respectively chargeable with the payment of the same,
and the said managers shall thereupon have and exer-
cise in relation to said lands, all the powers which
might or could be exercised by the commissioners of
the tax of any county, in this State in like cases.

Powers granted.

Sec. 13. And be it enacted, That the collector of
county charges, acting as collector for any school tax,
authorised and directed to be levied under the provi-

sions of this act, shall have the same power and author-

ity, and be bound by the same obligations, have the
same fees for collecting, and be subject to the saint
rules, regulations and duties, with respect to the col-
lection of said school tax, as by law appertains to his
office of collector of the county charges.

Collector authoris-

ed to.

Sec. 14. And be it enacted, That the trustees of each
school district shall hold their office till their success-

Terms of trustees'

office.