An Act to Provide for a General and Uniform System of Common Schools and School Libraries: And Matters Properly Connected Therewith in IndianaJ.P. Chapman, State Printer, 1852 - 22 pages |
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adjoining township annual township meeting annually in advance annum appraise attend auditor and trea auditor and treasurer become due board of county Board of Education board of township branches taught certificate city or town civil township collected common school fund copy thereof costs county audi county auditor county commissioners county revenues county treasurer court house door damages deed discharge distributed ditor educational purposes election failure to pay filed funds heretofore furni HARVARD UNIVERSITY heirs hundred dollars Indiana interest thereon land lies license loans male and female mortgaged premises note and mortgage notice number of children number of pupils number of scholars number of votes paid payable payment person entitled persons transferred petition preceding sections principal sum proceedings proper county purchase money receipt received record school commissioner school libraries school purposes school township select schools seven per cent statement suit to-wit township trustees voters
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Page 4 - That the school trustees shall take charge of the educational affairs of their respective townships, towns and cities. They shall employ teachers, establish and locate conveniently a sufficient number of schools for the education of the children therein...
Page 3 - Indiana; the fund to be derived from the sale of county seminaries, and the moneys and property heretofore held for such seminaries; from the fines assessed for breaches of the penal laws of the State; and from all forfeitures which may accrue...
Page 3 - All lands that have been or may hereafter be, granted to the State, where no special purpose is expressed in the grant, and the proceeds of the sales thereof, including the proceeds of the sales of the Swamp Lands...
Page 3 - The common school fund shall consist of the congressional township fund, and the lands belonging thereto; The surplus revenue fund; The saline fund, and the lands belonging thereto; The bank tax fund, and the fund arising from the one hundred and fourteenth section of the charter of the State Bank of Indiana...
Page 10 - When the interest or principal of any such loan shall become due and remain unpaid, the Auditor shall proceed to collect the same by...
Page 10 - ... damages on the whole sum due shall be collected with costs, and the premises mortgaged may be forthwith sold by the board of commissioners for the sale of the school and university lands, for the payment of such principal sum, interest, damages and costs.
Page 10 - Before sale of mortgaged premises, the auditor shall advertise the same in some newspaper printed in the county where the land lies, if any there be, otherwise in a paper in the State nearest thereto, for three weeks successively, and also by notice set up at the court-house door, and in three public places in the township where the land lies.
Page 15 - If on a re-sale of such land, the same shall produce more than sufficient to pay the sum owing therefor, with interest and costs and five per cent, damages on the amount of purchase money unpaid, the residue, when collected, shall be paid over to the former purchaser or his legal representatives.
Page 8 - Incorporated cities and towns shall constitute school corporations, independent of the townships in which they may be situated, and shall be entitled to the proportional amount of school funds to which the number of children between the ages prescribed by law will entitle them; and shall, by trustees elected by the people, or by officers appointed by the corporation, perform all the duties required of township trustees...
Page 3 - ... SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Indiana, That there shall be annually assessed and collected, as the State and county revenues are assessed and collected, first, on the list of property taxable for State purposes, the sum of ten cents on each one hundred dollars. SEC. 2. The funds heretofore known and designated as the congressional township fund, the surplus revenue fund, the county common school fund, and all funds heretofore appropriated to common schools...