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SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of South Carolina, now met and sitting in General Assembly, and by the authority of the same, That the County Commissioners of Chester County be, and are hereby, authorized and required to lay off a new township within the limits of Chester Township, in Chester County, to be known as Sandy River Township, the boundary line whereof shall begin on the north line of Court House Township where the Chester and Lenoir Railroad crosses the same, and runs thence northward with said railroad to the County line; thence westward with the County line to the corner of Baton Rouge township; thence southward with line of Baton Rouge township to its intersection with the road to Worthys Ferry; thence eastward with said road to its intersection with the line of Court House township; thence north and east with said line to the beginning. SEC. 2. That said township shall also constitute a school district, and the inhabitants thereof shall be, and are hereby, created a body politic and corporate, with such government, rights, privileges, and liabilities as other school districts, under the Act approved the 22d of March, 1878. SEC. 3. The said school district is also hereby authorized and empowered to levy, on all real and personal property returned in said district, a local tax not exceeding two mills on the dollar, to supplement the constitutional tax, for support of said schools by the persons and in the mode following, to wit: The school trustees of said district shall, on or before the 15th day of March next, and again on or before the 1st of November, A.D. 1882, and on or before the last named day in each succeeding year, call a meeting of all the legal voters living in said district and returning real or personal property therein; that a notice of said meeting, specifying the time, place, and object thereof, shall be published in one newspaper or more in the County of Chester, and posted on the door of Sandy River Academy, at least twenty days before the said meeting. The persons answering the above designation shall appoint a chairman and secretary, adjourn from time to time, decide what additional tax, if any, shall be levied, and appropriate the same in such manner as they may think best for maintaining said schools. No tax thus levied shall be repealed at a subsequent meeting held within the same fiscal year. The Chairman of the said meeting shall, in one week thereafter, notify the Chairman of the Board of Trustees and the County Auditor of the amount of the tax thus levied and how it has been appropriated, and the County Auditor shall at once assess such tax on all real and personal property returned in said district or township, and the County Treasurer shall collect the same with the State and County tax; and it shall be a lien on all property till paid, and defaulting tax-payers shall be liable to like process and penalties as defaulters for State and County taxes. The money collected from said tax levy shall be paid out by the County Treasurer for purposes to which it has been appropriated, on warrants drawn by the trustees of said district, countersigned by the County School Commissioner; and said Treasurer shall be liable to said school district for non-performance of his duty in respect to said moneys in same manner and under like penalties as for non-performance of his duty in reference to State and County taxes. The first assessment under this Act shall be for the scholastic year beginning on 1st November, 1881. SEC. 4. This Act shall take effect from its passage, and all Acts inconsistent therewith are hereby repealed. In the Senate House, the eighth day of February, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-two. John D. Kennedy, President of the Senate. Approved: February 9th, A.D. 1882. |
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