papers published in the city of Decatur, a statement exhibiting the condition of schools for the preceding year, which statement shall be substantially as follows, viz:

First-The whole number of schools which have been taught in said year.

Second-What number of teachers have been employed in each school, stating the name of each teacher, the time employed and the compensation paid.

Third-The whole number of scholars in all the schools, giving the number of males and females in each school separately, and the average number in attendance.

Fourth-The amount of all the funds received into the treasury during the year, and the sources from whence it was received, stating the amount received from each source.

Fifth-The amount paid out for salaries, rent, fuel, furniture, etc. Sixth-The amount and kind of unexpended funds on hand at the end of the year.

Seventh-A statement of the total amount received and the total amount paid out for school purposes during the year.

§ 16. All of the territory which, at the time of the passage of this act, or at any time hereafter, may be embraced in the corporate limits of the city of Decatur, shall be included and constitute a part of Decatur School District, and any tract or tracts of land adjoining said district may be annexed to it, on condition that three-fourths of the legal voters residing within the limits of such tract or tracts shall petition the board of education to be annexed to said district, and that their petition shall be granted by the unanimous vote of all the members of said board; whenever any territory shall be so annexed to and become a part of said district, all the provisions of this act shall be applicable to it in the same manner as they would have been if it had been embraced within the district at the time of the passage of this act.

17. For any neglect or failure by the said board of education, or of any member thereof, to fulfill the duties required of or imposed upon them by any of the provisions of this act, they shall be liable to a penalty of fifty dollars, to be recovered in an action of debt, at the suit of any person who may complain; and any member of said board. who shall appropriate to his own use any of the funds that may come to his hands, or under his control, belonging to said district for school purposes, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof, shall be fined in any sum not exceeding five hundred dollars, and imprisoned in the county jail not exceeding one year.

§ 18. The provisions of the last preceding section shall be held to apply to the clerk, treasurer, or any other officer or agent elected or appointed in pursuance of this act.

§ 19. All prior acts or parts of acts inconsistent with the provisions of this act, are hereby repealed, and any act of the General Assembly now in force or hereafter enacted, shall not be construed in

any manner to repeal, alter or change any of the provisions of this act, unless such act shall specifically provide for such repeal, alteration or change.

§ 20. This act is declared to be a public law, and shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

APPROVED February 16, 1865.

GALENA SCHOOL DISTRICT.

AN ACT to amend an act entitled “An Act to reduce the law incorporating the city of Galena and the several acts amendatory thereof into one act. and to amend the same, and for other purposes,' approved Jan. 30, 1857.

Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: That the act entitled "An act to reduce the law incorporating the city of Galena and the several acts amendatory thereof into one act, and to amend the same, and for other purposes,' approved Jan. 30, 1857, be so amended that the chapter entitled "Schools and School Funds" shall read as follows:

SECTION 1. The city of Galena, with such limits as are now or may hereafter be established, shall constitute one school district; and the city council of said city shall, by virtue of their offices, be the directors of the public schools in and for said district.

1. The only change made by the statute of 1879 is the substitution of a board of education appointed by the mayor in place of the members of the common council. None of the other powers, duties or authority are changed, and the members of the board of education as appointed and confirmed have all the powers originally vested in the members of the council. The school district is therefore operated, not under the general school law of the State, but under a special act of the Legislature. Schmohl v. Williams, 215-63.

§ 2. The said city council shall have full power and authority, and it shall be their duty, to establish, maintain and regulate, for at least six and not to exceed eleven months, in each year, a sufficient number of free schools, for the children in the district over 5 and under 21 years of age; and may sue for and collect all moneys arising from any fund for the support of schools or for educational purposes, and to which the inhabitants of said district may now or hereafter be entitled; which money, when collected, shall be paid to the treasurer of the city of Galena, to be expended by said council for the support of free schools within the limits of said city, and for no other purpose.

§ 3. The city council shall have power and it shall be their duty. First-To grade the schools in said district, and make such subdivisions of the district, for school purposes, as may be deemed expedient.

Second-To purchase or lease sites for school houses, with the necessary grounds, and to erect, hire or purchase buildings, for school purposes, and keep the same in repair.

Third-To furnish schools with the necessary fixtures, furniture, libraries and apparatus.

Fourth-To hire teachers and fix the amount of their compensation.

Fifth-To prescribe the studies to be taught in the different schools, to make all needful rules and regulations, concerning the schools, and to determine upon what terms children residing outside of said district may attend the free schools of said district.

Sixth-To cause to be made enumerations of the children of said district, residing in township twenty-eight, range one East, and twenty-eight, range one West of the fourth principal meridian, at the times and in the manner prescribed in the school law of this State. Said enumeration to be filed with the respective treasurers of said townships.

Seventh-To appoint a board of school inspectors, not less than three nor more than five in number, and prescribe their duties, and delegate to them, if deemed expedient, any or all of the powers and duties mentioned in specifications one, three, four, five and six of this section.

Eighth-To cause the public moneys, for the support of schools, to which the said city or the schools therein may be entitled, to be paid to the city treasury, and to direct the expenditure thereof.

Ninth To levy and collect taxes for the payment of all the expenses incident to the maintaining of free schools, and for all the purposes herein mentioned, the said taxes to be called "school taxes;" and the money arising therefrom, together with all other school moneys belonging to the city, shall be kept as a separate fund, to be used for none other than common school purposes.

§ 4. The city council shall cause to be prepared and forwarded to the school commissioner of JoDaviess county, on or before the second Monday of October, in each year, a statement of school statistics for said district, similar to that required of the trustees of schools of the various townships; which statement shall be certified to by the treasurer of said city; and it shall be the duty of said school commissioner at every apportionment of school moneys in his possession, to apportion to the said district a proportionate amount of said moneys, upon the same bases that apportionment is made to the several townships in the county of JoDaviess, and pay said amount, so apportioned, directly to the treasurer of the city of Galena, in the same manner as if the said district were a distinct township; and the school reports to said commissioner from townships twenty-eight, range one West, and twenty-eight, range one East of the fourth prin cipal meridian, shall not include the school statisticts of the said district or any part thereof.

$5. The teachers of the free schools of said district shall be subject to the provision of the school law, and shall make schedules of the scholars attending school in said district in accordance with section 53 of said law, especially specifying the township in which each scholar resides; and the school inspectors of said district shall certify to the correctness of said schedules. The schedules of said scholars, and who reside in township twenty-eight, range one West of the fourth principal meridian, shall, at least two days before the first Mondays in April and October, in each year, be filed with the treasurer of said township. And it shall be the duty of the trustees of

schools of said township, at each semi-annual apportionment, to apportion to said district a proportionate amount of money, arising from the township fund, upon the same basis that apportionment is made to the districts in said township, outside of the city of Galena; and the amount so apportioned to the said district, shall be immediately paid to the treasurer of the city of Galena by the treasurer of said township. A similar course shall be pursued with the schedules of the scholars in said district, and who reside in township twentyeight, range one East of the fourth principal meridian, and a similar duty, as to apportionment and payment of money arising from the township fund of said township twenty-eight, range one East of the fourth principal meridian, shall devolve upon the trustees of schools and the treasurer of said last named township.

§ 6. The legal voters residing in said district shall have the right to vote for trustees of schools, for the township in which they respectively reside.

§ 7. This act shall be deemed a public act, and may be read in evidence, without proof, and judicial notice shall be taken thereof in all courts and places.

§ 8. All laws conflicting with this act are hereby so far modified and repealed as to give full effect and efficiency to all the provisions

of this act.

§ 9. This act shall take effect from and after its passage. APPROVED Feb. 20, 1861.

GALESBURG SCHOOL DISTRICT.

AN ACT for the establishment of a system of graded schools for the city of Galesburg.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: That all the territory within the limits of the city of Galesburg, Knox county, Illinois, according to its present or future boundaries, is hereby erected into a common school district, to be known as Galesburg School District.

§ 2. All school lands, school funds, and other real or personal estate, notes, bonds or obligations, belonging to township number eleven North, and range one East of the fourth principal meridian, Knox county, Illinois, held or owned for school purposes, shall be divided between the city of Galesburg and the portion of the township without the same, in the proportion and manner following: The school trustees of said township shall, within 30 days after the first election contemplated by this act, appoint two commissioners, who are freeholders, one a resident of said city, the other of said township, without the city, who, after being sworn well and truly to discharge their duties, shall ascertain the whole number of white persons, under the age of 21 years, residing in the whole of said township, and the whole number in said city, and in the township without the city; and, thereupon, said trustees shall divide and apportion said funds, real and personal estate, notes, bonds and obligations of said township, be

tween the city and the township without the city, according to the number of white persons under the age of 21 years residing in said township. Said trustees shall have power to supply any vacancy occurring among said trustees.

§ 3. Said trustees, or other person or persons having custody or control of said funds or lands, shall pay over and deliver to the board of education of Galesburg school district the portion of the funds, and other personal estate, notes, bonds and obligations, to which the school district may be entitled, and execute and deliver to the board of education the necessary deeds and other conveyances for the share of real estate due said district under said division.

§ 4. The public schools of said district shall be under the exclusive management and control of a board of education, to consist of the mayor of said city, who shall be the president of the board, and one director from each ward of the city, to be known as "The Board of Education of Galesburg School District," each of whom, with the treasurer and clerk of said board, shall be sworn to discharge their duties with fidelity.

§ 5. Said board shall have exclusive control over the school lands, funds and other means of said district, for school purposes, and shall have full power to do all acts and things, in relation thereto, to promote the end herein designed; may sell or lease said lands and other lands or property which may have been or may hereafter be donated, purchased or designed for school purposes in said district, on such terms, for cash or credit, and at such times as they may see proper; they shall have full power to receive conveyances or donations and to make the necessary deeds or leases for lands; and all conveyances by the board shall be signed and acknowledged before some competent officer by the president and secretary of said board: Provided, however, that no sale or lease of land for more than one year shall be made without the concurrence of five members of the board. A majority of the directors, with or without the president, shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business; and in the absence of the president they may appoint one of their own body president pro tempore. The president shall only vote in case of a tie, when he shall have a casting vote.

§ 6. Said board shall have full power to purchase or lease sites for school houses, with the necessary grounds therefor; to erect, hire or purchase buildings for school houses and keep them in repair; to furnish schools with necessary books, fixtures, furniture, apparatus and library or libraries; to establish, conduct and maintain a system of public graded schools, to be kept in one or more buildings in said district; to supply the insufficiency of school funds for the payment of teachers, and other school purposes, and expenses, by school taxes to be levied and collected as hereinafter provided; to determine the number, make the appointment, and fix the amount of compensation of teachers, within said district, and of all other agents and servants: Provided, that the directors shall in no case receive any compensation for services as directors; to prescribe the studies to be taught and books to be used in said schools, including maps, charts, globes, etc.;