St. Louis for purposes of education, approved February 13, 1849, William G. Eliot, Jr., President of the Board of Directors of the St. Louis Public Schools, has transmitted to this office an abstract of the returns of an election held in the several wards of the city of St. Louis, on the first Monday of June A. D. 1849, in persuance of the act aforesaid, and that said abstract is on file in this office.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of said office. Done at the city of Jefferson, this twenty-fifth day of June, A. D., 1849.

[L. S.]

EPHRAIM B. EWING, Secretary of State.

AN ACT

Revising the Laws concerning the Revenue of the St. Louis Public

Schools.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Missouri, as follows:

SECTION 1. There shall be levied and collected annually on all real estate and personal property within the corporate limits of the city of St. Louis, made taxable by law for State purposes, a tax of one-tenth of one per centum, which tax shall be paid to the corporation called "The Board of President and Directors of the St. Louis Public Schools," and used and applied by said corporation in the same manner and for the same purposes as other money belonging to said Board, and in strict accordance with the provisions of the laws in relation to said corporation.

SEC. 2. The collector of St. Louis county shall have authority, and it is hereby made his duty, to collect the tax in the first section of this act specified, in the same manner and under the same rules, regulations and restrictions, penalties, liabilities and responsibilities, and with the same powers, as shall be provided by law for the collection of the State and county revenue in said county.

SEC. 3. The collector of said county shall, at least once in every month, and oftener if required in writing by the President of said Board, pay over to said Board all moneys collected by him to which said Board shall be lawfully entitled.

SEC. 4. The said collector, for his services under this act, shall be entitled to the same compensation as shall be allowed

by law for similar services in relation to the collection of the State and county taxes in said county.

SEC. 5. The collector of St. Louis county shall, within ninety days after his appointment and before entering on the duties of his office under this act, enter into bond, payable to said corporation, in such sum as said Board may require, with good and sufficient securities to be approved of by said Board, conditioned that he will faithfully and punctually collect, account for, and pay over to said corporation all moneys received and collected by him under this act during his continuance in office, and that he will in all things faithfully perform all of his official duties as collector under this act.

SEC. 6. If said collector shall not, within ninety days after his appointment as collector as aforesaid, enter into bond, as provided in the immediately preceding section of this act, his said office of collector of said county of St. Louis shall be deemed vacant, and such vacancy shall be filled in the same manner as if he had resigned, and he shall not be eligible, or re-appointed to said office, for one year thereafter.

SEC. 7. The same assessment on property within the corporate limits of the city of St. Louis, which shall be made from time to time for State and county taxes, shall be deemed and used as the lawful and proper assessment in levying and collecting the tax authorized by this act, and the payment of the taxes authorized by this act shall be enforced in the same manner and under the same rules and regulations, as shall be provided by law for the enforcement of the payment of the State and county taxes in said county.

SEC. 8. The collector of said county shall perform such other duties under this act, not herein specified, as he shall be required by law to perform in relation to the collection of the State and county taxes in said county.

- SEC. 9. The clerk of the County Court of St. Louis county. shall perform the same duties under this act that he shall be required by law to perform in relation to the State, county and other taxes in said county, and for his services under this act he shall be allowed and paid by said Board such compensation as said Board of Directors shall deem reasonable, just and proper. SEC. 10. No law hereafter passed shall be deemed or construed as changing, altering or repealing the whole or any part of this act, unless this act be expressly mentioned in such law.

This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

Approved March 2, 1859.

I, B. F. Massey, Secretary of State, hereby certify the foregoing copy of a law entitled "An Act revising the laws concerning the revenue of the St. Louis Public Schools," is a true copy of the original roll of said law now on file in this office.

In testimony whereof, I have hereto set my name, and affixed the seal of office. Done at the office of Secretary of of Jefferson, this 4th day of March,

[L. S.] State, at the city A. D. 1859.

B. F. MASSEY, Secretary of State.

AN ACT

To define the qualifications of voters for members of the Board of President and Directors of the St. Louis Public Schools.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Missouri, as follows:

SECTION 1. All persons qualified as electors under the tenth section of the third article of the constitution of the State of Missouri, who shall have resided six months within the city, and one month within the ward wherein they offer to vote, next preceding the election, shall be deemed qualified voters at all elections for members of the Board of President and Directors of the St. Louis Public Schools.

SEC. 2. Voters under this act shall give their votes only in the ward in which they reside.

SEC. 3. At all elections under this act the voters shall vote by ballot.

This act to take effect from and after its passage.

Approved November 21, 1857.

AN ACT

Amendatory of the first section of an act entitled “An Act revising the Laws concerning the Revenue of the St. Louis Public Schools," approved March 2, 1859.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Missouri, as follows:

SECTION 1. The first section of the act to which this act is amendatory shall be and is hereby changed, altered and amended, so as to read and mean as follows, to-wit:

SEC. 2. There shall be levied and collec'ed annually on all real estate and personal property within the corporate limits of the city of St. Louis, made taxable by law for State purposes, a tax of one-fifth of one per centum, which tax shall be paid to the corporation called "The Board of President and Directors of the Saint Louis Public Schools," and used and applied by said corporation in the same manner and for the same purposes as other money belonging to said Board, and in strict accordance with the provisions of the laws in relation to said corporation.

This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

Approved December 17, 1863.

AN ACT

Amendatory of an act approved December 17, 1863, entitled "An Act amendatory of the first section of an act entitled 'An Act revising the Laws concerning the Revenue of the St Louis Public Schools,'' approved March 2, 1859.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Missouri, as follows:

SECTION 1. There shall be levied and collected annually on all real estate and personal property within the corporate limits of the city of Saint Louis, made taxable by law for State purposes, a tax of not more than one-half of one per centum, which tax shall be paid to the corporation called "The Board of President and Directors of the Saint Louis Public Schools," and used and applied by said corporation in the same manner and for the same purposes as other money belonging to said Board, and in

strict accordance with the provisions of the laws in relation to said corporation.

SEC. 2. The Board of President and Directors of the Saint Louis Public Schools shall determine the rate of taxation for each year under the provisions of the foregoing section by resolution, a copy of which, duly certified according to law, shall bo handed to the collector of St. Louis county, aud to the clerk of the County Court of St. Louis county, on or before the 15th day of October in each year.

SEC. 3. The collector of St. Louis county shall have authority, and it is hereby made his duty, to collect the tax in the first section of this act specified, in the same manner and under the same rules, regulations and restrictions, penalties, liabilities and responsibilities, and with the same powers as shall be provided by law for the collection of the State and county revenue in said county.

SEC. 4. The collector of said county shall, at least once in every month, and oftener if required in writing by the President of said Board, pay over to said Board all moneys collected by him to which said Board shall be lawfully entitled.

SEC. 5. The said collector for his services under this act shall be entitled to the same compensation as shall be allowed by law for similar services in relation to the collection of the State and county taxes in said county.

SEC. 6. The collector of St. Louis county shall within ninety days after his appointment, and before entering upon the duties of his office under this act, enter into bond, payable to said corporation in such sum as said Board may require, with good and sufficient securities, to be approved by said Board, conditioned that he will faithfully and punctually collect, account for and pay over to said corporation, all moneys roceived and collected by him under this act during his continuance in office, and that he will in all things faithfully perform all his official duties as collector under this act.

SEC. 7. If said collector shall not, within ninety days after his appointment as collector aforesaid, enter into a bond as provided in the immediately preceding section of this act, his said office of collector of said county of St. Louis shall be deemed vacant, and such vacancy shall be filled in the same manner as if he had resigned, and he shall not be eligible or re-appointed for said office for one year thereafter.