Chap. 145.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section sixty-seven, chap-
ter seventy-eight, of the Code of eighteen hundred and seventy-three,
-in relation to Public Free Schools.

Approved March 17, 1876.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly, That section
sixty-seven, chapter seventy-eight, Code of eighteen hundred
and seventy-three, be amended and re-enacted so as to read
as follows:

§ 67. The funds applicable annually to the establishment,
support and maintenance of public free schools in this state,
shall consist of—First. State funds, embracing the annual
interest on the literary fund, a capitation tax not exceeding
one dollar per annum on every male citizen who has attained
the age of twenty-one years, and such tax on property, not
less than one mill, nor more than five mills on the dollar, as
the general assembly shall from time to time order to be
levied. Second. County funds, embracing such tax as shall
be levied by the board of supervisors in pursuance of section
seventy-four of this act, fines and penalties imposed in pur-
suance of section forty-one of the same, and donations or
other income arising therefrom in pursuance of section forty-
nine hereof. Third. District funds, embracing such tax as
shall be levied by the board of supervisors of the county for
the purposes of the school district, in pursuance of section
seventy-four, and clause eight of section thirty-one of this
act; fines and penalties imposed by section forty-one of the
same, and donations, or the income arising therefrom, in
pursuance of section forty-nine thereof: provided, that no
tax levied by any county for public free school purposes
therein, shall.in any case exceed -ten cents in the hundred
dollars upon the assessed value of the taxable property of
any county, and no tax to be levied by any school district for
public free school purposes therein, shall exceed ten cents
upon the assessed value of the taxable property therein:
provided, however, that it shall be lawful for the board of
trustees of any schoog] district, or the county school board of
the county, to include in their annual estimate for such school
district, and for the board of supervisors of the county to
include in their levy for public free school purposes in said
district, any amount which, together with any county tax
levied in such district for the purposes of the public free
schools of the county, shall not exceed twenty cents in the
hundred dollars upon the taxable value of the property in
said school district: provided, however, that in the county
of Alexandria, in which, if three-fourths of the qualified voters
voting on the question vote affirmatively, any school district
may impose upon itself a tax not exceeding fifty cents on
the hundred dollars. Any excess of such levy for district
school purposes, over five cents upon the hundred dollars of
the taxable value of the property of such district, may be
applied by the board of trustees thereo’ to the payment of
the salaries of teachers therein.