Show common schools we have heard beard some little complaint about the school tax of late and have been requested fo publish our views in relation to it no one who has read the school laws can doubt the power of the trustees to assist and collect a tax to build a schoolhouse school house in their heir ward or district and to keep the same in repair but to impose a tax up pon the citizens to pay the teacher i is unauthorized by law when a school house is built and kept ke pt in repair by a common tax bearing 0 an equal ratio to the amount of property that each citizen of the ward or district possesses pos esses in said ward the way is effectually opened and prepared for a school to go into operation this done those wh who 0 send to school are expected to pay the teacher themselves as no others can be required to pay that expense it if this were not nok the ease case whoever might wish to patronize the university or any other select school would be subject or 01 liable to pay two school bills or taxes which would tend to check the higher branches of education ed uca tion I 1 |