Kentucky Public Documents (Volume 1) Paperback - 2201

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1878. Excerpt: ... 18 B. Mon., 497; 1 Bush, 135; see also same, 711; 1 Duvall, 66.) The contesting party can appeal within five days from the Commissioner to the State Board of Education. The duty of the Commissioner in such cases is to remain passive, and be prepared to exercise his judicial capacity. If no one contests within thirty days after the election, he can order the collection of the tax. The names of electors voting must be registered in ink, and the poll-books properly signed by the officers returned. The fact that the poll is not returned within five days does not invalidate the election. The people must not be made to suffer on account of the laches (negligence) of the officers. Under the law, fifteen days' notice must be given before a vote can be taken on district taxation. Only ten days' previous notice is required when a Trustee is to be elected. Districts intending to avail themselves of this provision should give the subject attention as early as the fifteenth of June, as the vote must be taken, if at all, on the first Saturday of July of each year. The Chairman cannot be too careful to follow the prescription of the law in every particular. 18. The tax can be applied to but two purposes: 1. Improving the character and extending the time of the schools, which means the better payment of the salary of the teacher, and for the extension of the school for a longer term than five months. 2. For the school-house, in the following particulars: the purchasing of a site for a district school-house; the building, repairing, or furnishing of the house. The Attorney General has decided that the tax can be applied to the purchasing of a blackboard, globes, maps, charts, and like school aids, as part of the furniture. 19. In a fractional district voting a tax, the Tr...