§ 1717. Corporate authorities must raise tax certified by board of
education. 1. The corporate authorities of any incorporated village in
which any such union free school district shall be established, shall
have power, and it shall be their duty, to raise, from time to time, by
tax, to be levied upon all the real property in said village, as by law
provided for the defraying of the expenses of its municipal government,
such sum as the board of education established therein shall declare
necessary for teachers' salaries and the ordinary contingent expenses of
supporting the schools of said district.

2. The sums so declared necessary shall be set forth in a detailed
statement in writing, addressed to the corporate authorities by the
board of education, giving the various purposes of anticipated
expenditure, and the amount necessary for each; and the said corporate
authorities shall have no power to withhold the sums so declared to be
necessary; and such corporate authorities as aforesaid shall have power
and it shall be their duty to raise, from time to time, by tax as
aforesaid, any such further sum to be set forth in a detailed statement
in writing, addressed to the corporate authorities by the board of
education, giving the various purposes of the proposed expenditure, and
the amount necessary for each which may have been or which may hereafter
be authorized by a majority of the voters of such union free school
district present and voting at any special district meeting duly
convened for any of the purposes stated in section four hundred sixteen
of this chapter.