privileges of the library, excepting those who reside in districts that maintain a district library (4753). CARE OF LIBRARY. The care of the township library is entrusted to the township board of school inspectors. The inspectors TOWNSHIP are held accountable for the proper care and preservation of said library, prescribe rules and regulations concerning the same, may appoint a librarian whose term of office is one year, assess and collect fines for loss or injury of books, keep the books at some central or eligible place, and make annual reports to the superintendent of public instruction, giving such facts and statistics as said superintendent may require. DISTRICT LIBRARIES. Any school district, by a two-thirds vote at any annual meeting, may establish a district library. Such districts are entitled to an equitable proportion of the books from the township library, and also to a proportionate share of the library money of the township (4757). District boards have charge of district libraries, and are subject to the same rules and regulations as to care of the library as are the township inspectors (4758). CARE OF ANNUAL ADDITION TO LIBRARIES. The annual report of the superintendent of public instruction is furnished to every township and district library. WHAT ARE LIBRARY LIBRARY FUNDS. The clear proceeds of all fines for any breach of the penal laws of this State and for penalties, or upon any recognizance in criminal proceedings, and all equivalents for exemption from military duty, when collected in any county and paid into the county treasury, together with all moneys heretofore collected and paid into said treasury on account of such fines or equivalents, which are not already apportioned, shall be apportioned by the county treasurer among the several townships in the county before the first day of June in each year, according to the number of children therein between the ages of five and twenty years, as shown by the statement of the superintendent of public instruction; and this money shall be exclusively applied to the support of the township and district libraries, and to no other purpose (4760). The qualified voters of each township have power, at any VOTING annual township meeting, to vote a tax for the support of township libraries; and the qualified voters of any school district, in which a district library has been established, have power at any annual meeting of such district, to vote a district tax for the support of the district library. When any tax for libraries has been voted, it is reported to the supervisor, levied, and collected in the same manner as other township and school district taxes (4763). The superintendent of public instruction annually, and ANNUAL MENT. previous to the tenth day of May, transmits to the clerk of each county a statement of the townships in his county that are entitled to receive library moneys, giving the number of children in each of such townships between the ages of five and twenty years, as appears from the reports of the boards of school inspectors for the school year last ending; the clerk files such statement in his office, and furnishes a copy of the same to the county treasurer (4761). The statements also indicate the various districts of the townships that are entitled to receive a portion of the moneys apportioned to the townships. In case the board of school inspectors of any township, or district board of any school district, fails to make the required report, or in case it appears from the reports so made that any township or FORFEITURE. district has failed to use the library money in strict accordance with the law, such township or district forfeits its share of the library moneys that are apportioned, and the same shall be apportioned to the several other townships and districts in the county. The constitution has provided that library moneys may be used for general school purposes, if the township board shall so determine (Art. XI, Section 12). CHAPTER IX. SCHOOL REVENUES. The moneys used for the support of the common schools The establishment of this fund has been referred to in the first chapter of this book, and we give in this chapter a few facts concerning its distribution. The fund is divided among the school districts of the State in proportion to the number of school children HOW DIVIDED. in each. Statements showing the number of school children in each county, township, and district of the State are sent by the superintendent of public instruction to the several county clerks, between the first and tenth days of May and November of each year. The money is transferred by the State treasurer to the county treasurer, by him to the township or HOW TRANS- city treasurer, who, in turn, transmits it to the assessor of the district (4642). FERRED. Primary money can be used for no other purpose than the *NOTE-This fund has been fully discussed in Chapter VIII. HOW USED. payment of the wages of legally qualified teachers (4676), and only by districts in which five months of school were maintained during the school year ending the first of September just preceding. One-Mill Tax. The supervisor assesses upon the taxable property of his township one mill upon each dollar of valuation, HOW and reports the aggregate valuation of each district to the township clerk, who reports said amount to the director of each school district in his township, or to the director of any fractional school district a portion of which may be located in the township, before the first day of September of each year; and all moneys so raised are apportioned by the township clerk to the district in which it was raised. PROPERTY IN All money collected by virtue of this law during the year on any property not included in any organized UNORGANIZED district, or in districts not having, during the DISTRICTS. previous school year, three months' school in districts of less than thirty children, or five months' school in districts of thirty and less than eight hundred children, or nine months' school in districts of eight hundred or more children, as shown by the last school census, is apportioned to the several other school districts of said township, in the same manner as the primary school interest fund. All moneys accruing from the one-mill tax in any township, before any district shall have a legal school therein, belongs to the districts in which it was raised, when they shall severally have had a three months' school by a qualified teacher (4705). The voters of the district have authority to appropriate any surplus moneys arising from the one-mill tax, after having maintained a school in the district at least eight months in the school year, SURPLUS |