sistent with its terms, which have heretofore been done and performed by the County Court of the County of St. Louis.

SEC. 25. Until the County of St. Louis, as organized by this Scheme, shall otherwise provide, the County Court thereof shall be authorized to send the paupers of said county to the Poor House, or County Farm, now in use, and the insane paupers of said county to the Insane Asylum now in use, and for the maintenance of such paupers shall pay to the Treasurer of the city the cost of maintaining paupers in those institutions, to be ascertained by the annual reports of the same.

SEC. 26. The Circuit Attorney and Assistant Circuit Attorney for the Eighth Judicial Circuit, the Prosecuting Attorney, the Assistant Prosecuting Attorney, and the Clerk of the St. Louis Court of Criminal Correction, and the Clerk of the St. Louis Criminal Court, shall continue to hold their offices and discharge the duties thereof, as now provided by law, until the expiration of their respective terms of office, and until their successors are duly elected and qualified.

SEC. 27. After this Scheme goes into operation, and until otherwise provided by law, the Grand Jury of the Eighth Judicial Circuit shall be selected by the Judge of the St. Louis Criminal Court from the City and County of St. Louis, and shall be summoned by the Marshal of the City of St. Louis.

SEC. 28. All members of Grand Juries selected from the City of St. Louis shall be paid out of the City Treasury, and those from the County of St. Louis shall be paid out of the County Treasury. All payments shall be upon certificates of the Clerk of the St. Louis Criminal Court.

SEC. 29. In the criminal cases occurring in the City of St. Louis, in which, by the law in force prior to this Scheme going into operation, the County of St. Louis was liable to pay costs, such costs shall, after that time, be paid out of the City Treasury, and in like cases occurring in the County of St. Louis, shall be paid out of the Treasury of the County of St. Louis.

SEC. 30. Petit jurors to serve in the Circuit Court of the Eighth Judicial Circuit, in the St. Louis Criminal Court and in the St. Louis Court of Criminal Correction, shall until otherwise provided, be selected and summoned as now provided by law, except that jurors for the said Circuit Court shall be summoned by the Sheriff of the City of St. Louis, and

jurors to serve in the said other two courts shall be summoned by the Marshal of the City of St. Louis. And the act to provide a jury system in St. Louis County, approved March 3, 1857, and the acts amendatory thereof, shall remain in force until altered or repealed, and the present Jury Commissioner of St. Louis County shall remain in office until the expiration of his official term and perform all the duties now required of him by law.

SEC. 31. For all services of petit jurors rendered in the Circuit Court of the Eighth Judicial Circuit, they shall be paid out of the City Treasury, and for all such services rendered by citizens of St. Louis, in the St. Louis Criminal Court and the St. Louis Court of Criminal Correction, they shall be paid out of the City Treasury, and for all such services rendered in the last mentioned courts by citizens of St. Louis County, they shall be paid out of the County Treasury.

SEC. 32. In all cases where, according to the laws in force, up to the time when this Scheme shall go into operation, any public officer or other person was required to pay any money coming into his hands from any source whatever into the County Treasury of St. Louis County, and where it is not otherwise provided in this Scheme, or the Charter framed under it, such officer or person shall, after the time aforesaid, pay all such money into the Treasury of the City of St. Louis, at or within such times as he was theretofore required to pay the same into the County Treasury; and if no time shall be prescribed by law for any such payments, then he shall pay the same monthly, on the first Monday of each month, into said City Treasury, and shall take triplicate receipts therefor, stating the account on which such payment was made, one of which he shall file in the City Auditor's office and one with the Comptroller, who shall charge the Treasurer with the amount so paid; and the said Auditor and Treasurer shall keep accounts showing the account on which such payments were made and the source from which the money was derived. All such money shall be applied and used for the purposes for which it was collected, or for which it is made applicable by law, and in all cases when such money is not set apart or appropriated by law for specific purposes, the Municipal Assembly of the city may appropriate it to such municipal uses as it may

deem proper: Provided, however, that all fines, penalties and forfeitures collected or accruing in the County of St. Louis, or on account of said county or the people thereof, shall be paid in the manner and at times aforesaid into the County Treasury of said county, and duplicate receipts shall be taken as aforesaid by the officer or person paying the same, one of which he shall file with the County Clerk of said County who shall charge the Treasurer with the amount so paid, and such money shall be appropriated and used as it is or may be provided by law and provided further, that if any public officer or other person shall at the time this Scheme goes into operation be in default in the payment of any such money into the said County Treasury, he shall immediately pay the same into the said City Treasury in the manner aforesaid and the same shall be disposed of as herein provided.

SEC. 33. All powers heretofore vested in the Collector of the County of St. Louis, and all duties required to be performed by him in reference to taxes on property situated outside of the limits of the City of St. Louis as enlarged, and in reference to the sale of such property for taxes and the redemption thereof, shall, after the election and qualification of the Sheriff of the County of St. Louis, as provided by this Scheme, be executed and performed by such Sheriff, and all deeds for the sale of land for taxes made by him shall be acknowledged before the Clerk of the County Court of St. Louis County.

SEC. 34. The Municipal Assembly shall have power to enact all ordinances that may be necessary to carry into execution the laws relating to State, county, city and other revenue within the City of St. Louis as enlarged, and such powers as are now vested by law in the County Court of St. Louis County or the Clerk .of said Court, or the County Collector and Auditor may be exercised by such tribunals and officers as may be provided by ordinance.

SEC. 35. It shall be unlawful for any domestic animal of the species of horse, cattle, mule, ass, swine, sheep or goat to be suffered to run at large, by the owner thereof, in the City or County of St. Louis; and if any such animal be found running at large in said city or county after this Scheme and Charter go into operation, it shall be lawful for any person to

take up and restrain the same forthwith, and such person shall within three days after so taking up and restraining such animal give notice thereof to the owner, if known, and thereupon such owner shall pay a reasonable compensation for taking up, keeping and feeding such animal, and for damages actually caused by such animal. If the owner be not known, or fails to make such reasonable compensation after being notified, any animal so taken up shall be deemed an estray, and may be proceeded against by the taker up thereof, in the manner provided by law in regard to strays; provided, however, that this section shall not be so construed as to prohibit any person from driving herding and guarding such stock upon the uninclosed lands belonging to said county, the State, or the United States.

SEC. 36. In all cases where the limits of the City of St. Louis, as herein extended, include a part only of any school district, the following shall be the mode of adjustment as to property held by or for the use or benefit of such district: First, Where the part of such district, included within such extended limits contains any school house or other real estate belonging to the district, the Board of President and Directors of the St. Louis Public Schools shall pay into the County Treasury of St. Louis County, for the use of that part of the district not so included, such proportion of the valuation of said school property as the taxable value of property in the part of such district not so included, bears to the taxable value of all property in such district, as constituted before such extension. Second, Where the part of such district, not included within such extended limits, contains any school house or other real estate belonging to the district, the inhabitants of the district not so included shall pay to the Board of President and Directors of the St. Louis Public Schools, such proportion of the valuation of said school property, as the taxable value of property in the part of such district included within the city limits, bears to the taxable value of all property in such district as constituted before such extension. The valuation of school property mentioned in this section shall be made by arbitrators, one of whom shall be selected by the Board of President and Directors of the St. Louis Public Schools, and one by the Directors of the school district affected, who, if disagreeing, may select a third; or, if unable to agree on the selection of

such third arbitrator, any School Director, or member of the Board of President and Directors of the St. Louis Public Schools, may apply to the Circuit Court of the Eighth Judicial Circuit to appoint one. A report of the valuation made by such arbitrators, or a majority thereof, shall be filed as soon as practicable, in the Clerk's office of the Circuit Court of the Eighth Judicial Circuit. Any money to be paid to the Board of President and Directors of the St. Louis Public Schools, shall be provided for by the assessment, levy and collection of a special tax on all taxable property within such districts not so included.

SEC. 37. All property, real, personal or mixed, of every kind and description, and the evidence of title thereto now held by the County of St. Louis, or by the County Court of St. Louis County, in trust or for the use of the inhabitants of township forty-five north, or range seven east, for school purposes, and all such property, and the evidences of title thereto held by any public officer for the use of any school district in said township, or held by or for the benefit of any such district, shall, as soon as this Scheme goes into effect, pass and be Idelivered to the Board of President and Directors of the St. Louis Public Schools; and the title to any and all such property shall, by operation hereof, vest in said Board.

SEC. 38. The Board of President and Directors of the St. Louis Public Schools shall, forthwith after this Scheme goes into effect, cause an enumeration to be taken of all children within school ages within the limits of the City of St. Louis as herein established and the County Court of St Louis County shall cause forthwith a similar enumeration to be taken within the County of St. Louis outside of the city limits as herein established, showing the enumeration in each school district, and fractional school district separately, a correct report of which enumeration shall be filed by said Board and said court, respectively in the Clerk's office of the Circuit Court of the Eighth Judicial Circuit within sixty days after this Scheme and Charter go into operation. So much of all property of every nature whatsoever, and the evidences thereof, belonging to the school fund of St. Louis County or of Congressional townships affected by the extension of the present city limits, as according to such enumeration, falls to the