Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia: Section 1. That the board of education of Philippi independent 2 school district, in the county of Barbour, West Virginia, be, and 3 it is hereby authorized and empowered to issue the bonds of said 4 school district to an amount sufficient for the purpose of providing 5 such lot of land or additional lot of land as may be necessary 6 and to erect thereon, furnish and equip a suitable public school 7 building and high school building, combined or separately, as 8 said board may deem proper, within said district. Sec. 2. Said bonds' shall be of such denomination as said board 2 of education shall by order prescribe, and shall be payable in not 3 less than five years nor more than thirty-four years, at the option 4 of the said board of education, and shall bear interest at the rate 5 of not to exceed six per cent per annum, payable annually; pro6 vided, that the aggregate of said bonds for said purposes, including 7 existing indebtedness of said district, shall not exceed five per 8 centum of the value of all the taxable property in said district, to 9 be ascertained by the last assessment for state and county purposes 10 next before the incurring of said indebtedness; and said board of 11 education shall provide by levy a direct annual tax sufficient to 12 pay annually the interest on such indebtedness and the principal 13 when due. Sec. 3. But no such bonds shall be issued under this act unless 2 the question of issuing the same shall have first been submitted 3 to the voters of said school district at an election to be held for that 4 purpose and shall have received three-fifths of all votes cast, and 5 said election shall be conducted under the supervision of said board 6 of education and the result thereof ascertained and certified by 7 said board; for the purpose of holding said election said board 8 shall appoint at least three qualified voters, one of which persons 9 so appointed shall act as clerk and the other two shall act as 10 commissioners of said election and said election shall be held at 11 the court house in the city of Philippi, and all qualified voters 12 within said district shall be entitled to vote upon such question at 13 said election at said place. The registration of voters taken for 14 the general election in November, one thousand nine hundred and 15 twenty shall be taken as a proper registration of the voters en16 titled to vote at said election, after the secretary of the said board 17 of education has revised the said list and stricken therefrom the 18 names of all persons who have died or removed from said district 19 since said list was made up and have added thereto the names of 20 all such persons as had become entitled to vote in said district 21 since said registration. A notice of said election setting out therein 22 the order of the board entered thereon, duly published in two 23 newspapers of general circulation in said district once a week for 24 two weeks prior to said election shall be a sufficient notice and 25 publication thereof. Said board of education is directed and 26 authorized to do any and all acts in respect to the holding of said 27 election and issuance of said bonds that may be necessary to carry 28 the purposes of this act into effect. All acts and parts of acts con29 flicting herewith so far as they relate to said independent school 30 district are for the purposes of this bond issue and not further 31 made inoperative. CHAPTER 21 (House Bill No. 27-Mr. Hersman, of Roane.) AN ACT to amend and re-enact section eight of chapter seventy-one of the acts of one thousand nine hundred and seventeen, relating to Spencer independent school district. [Passed April 19, 1921. In effect July 1, 1921. April 30, 1921.] Approved by the Governor vide sinking fund; to pay off bonded indebtedness; amount of levy; inconsistent acts repealed. Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia: That section eight of chapter seventy-one of the acts of one thousand nine hundred and seventeen, relating to Spencer independent School district be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows: Section 8. The board of education of Spencer independent 2 school district shall also meet at the times and perform the 3 duties required of boards of education, other than those for inde4 pendent school district, except as herein otherwise provided, for 5 the purpose of making, and shall make, estimates of the money 6 required to maintain the schools in said independent school dis7trict for the ensuing year, both as to the teachers' and various 8 building funds, and of providing for a sinking fund to pay off 9 any bonded indebtedness; and said board of educaton shall deter10 mine the number of months of school to be taught in said district 11 for said year, both in the high and graded schools and any depart12 ment thereof, which shall not be fewer than eight months for any 13 one year; and shall levy upon the taxable property in said inde14 pendent school district a sufficient sum for said purposes, which, 15 however, shall not exceed seventy-five cents on each one hundred 16 dollars valuation of the taxable property therein for the teachers' 17 funds and forty cents for the building and building maintenance 18 funds and such rate as may be necessary to pay off said bonded in19 debtedness within the time provided by the proceedings had and the 20 orders entered in respect to said bonded indebtedness and the 21 obligation in respect thereto given. 22 All acts and parts of acts inconsistent herewith are hereby re23 pealed. CHAPTER 22 (House Bill No. 34-Mr. Heavener.) AN ACT to amend and re-enact sections fourteen, fifteen and twentythree of chapter seventeen of the acts of the legislature of the state of West Virginia of one thousand nine hundred and five, relating to the independent school district of Alderson, in the counties of Greenbrier and Monroe. [Passed April 7, 1921. In effect from passage. April 16, 1921.] Approved by the Governor Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia: That sections fourteen and fifteen of chapter seventeen of the acts of the legislature of West Virginia, one thousand nine hundred and five, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows: Section 14. It shall be the duty of the board of education of 2 said independent school district of Alderson at a meeting held not 3 later than the second Monday in August next following their elec 4 tion and qualification, and annually thereafter, to ascertain as 5 nearly as possible the amount of money, in addition to all available 6 funds, necessary to keep in operation or session the schools in 7 said district for at least eight months in the year and for the 8 purpose of raising the required or necessary amount the board shall 9 levy a tax upon the property and residents of the district, and 10 same shall be collected under the provisions of the general school 11 law of the state; provided, that the levy made or taxes to be raised 12 for both teachers' and maintenance building funds in said school 13 district shall not exceed the rate provided by the general school law 14 of the state except that the board may make a levy of as much as 15 fifty cents for elementary teachers' salaries. Sec. 15. The board of education of the independent school dis2 trict of Alderson is hereby authorized and empowered, at any 3 time after this act takes effect or after their election and qualifica4 tion, to issue and sell the bonds of said district, and with the pro5 ceeds erect one or more public school buildings within and for the 6 use of said district; such bonds to bear interest at a rate not ex7 ceeding six per centum per annum, and to become payable in not 8 less than five nor more than thirty-four years from the date thereof. 9 No indebtedness under this act shall exceed, when added to the ex10 isting indebtedness of said district, five per centum of the value 11 of the taxable property in said district, such value to be ascertained 12 by the next preceding assessment made with reference to state and 13 county taxes; nor shall such bonds be issued without due pro14 visions for the assessment and collection of a direct annual tax suffi15 cient to pay annually the interest thereon and the principal thereof 16 at their maturity; nor at all unless all questions connected there17 with be submitted to the voters of the said district, and three-fifths 18 of all the votes cast at such election shall have been in favor of 19 the issuance of said bonds. When the board of said independent 20 district shall deem it expedient to exercise the power hereby con21 ferred, an order shall be made and placed upon the minutes at a 22 regular meeting specifying the purpose, amount and denomination 23 of the bonds proposed to be issued, the date of maturity and the 24 plan adopted to meet the payment of the principal and the accru25 ing interest. Such bonds shall be of the denomination of one hun26 dred dollars or a multiple thereof. Sec. 23. All provisions of the general school law of the state, 2 and all laws and acts heretofore existing, which are in any man3 ner inconsistent with the provisions of this act, shall be void within 4 the district, otherwise the said general school law shall remain in 5 full force and effect in this district as elsewhere in the state. 6 All acts and parts of acts inconsistent with this act are hereby re7 pealed. CHAPTER 23 (House Bill No. 50-Mr. Johnston.) AN ACT creating the independent school district of Ridgeley, West Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia: Section 1. That in the event of a majority of the votes cast at 2 an election to be held on the second Tuesday in May, one thousand 3 nine hundred and twenty-one, to be in favor thereof, the following 4 described territory in the county of Mineral, and in the district of 5 Frankfort, shall after the results of such election are ascertained 6 and declared to be the independent school district of Ridgeley, 7to-wit: 8 All that portion of Mineral county lying north and east of said 9 line, beginning from a point on the Western Maryland railroad 10 on the West Virginia division known as the West End Knob Mount 11 yard, the same to leave the Potomac river on the west side of 12 Knobley mountain and pass by a direct line over Knobley moun13 tain to where the Maryland division crosses the Potomac known |
