Chapter CCXVII. relating to Public Schools in the District of Columbia
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CHAP. CCXVII.— An Act relating to Public Schools in the District of Columbia.July 23, 1866. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the eighteenth section of the act entitled “An act to provide for the public instruction of youth inCities of Washington and Georgetown to pay to trustees of colored schools the proportionate part of certain school moneys. 1864, ch. 156, § 18. Vol. xiii. p. 191. the county of Washington, District of Columbia, and for other purposes,” approved June twenty-five, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, shall be so construed as to require the cities of Washington and Georgetown to pay over to the trustees of colored schools of said cities such a proportionate part of all moneys received or expended for school or educational purposes in said cities, including the cost of sites, buildings, improvements, furniture, and books, and all other expenditures on account of schools, as the colored children between the ages of six and seventeen years, in the respective cities, bear to the whole number of children, white and colored, between the same ages.
That the money shall be considered due and payable to said trustees on the first day of October of each year, and ifMoney when to be payable. not then paid over to them, interest at the rate of ten per centum per annum on the amount unpaid may be demanded and collected from theInterest. authorities of the delinquent city by said trustees. Sec. 2. *And be it further enacted,* That the said trustees may maintain an action of debt in the supreme court of the District of ColumbiaAn action of debt may be maintained for those moneys. against said cities of Washington and Georgetown for the non-payment of any sum of money arising under the aforesaid act of June twenty-five, eighteen hundred and sixty-four.
Approved, July 23, 1866.