Whenever territory shall have been attached to any cemetery district under the provisions of this act*, the county clerk of the county or the county clerks of each county in which said district is located shall, at the first tax levying period next following the date of such annexation and thereafter levy a tax on the taxable tangible property of such cemetery district, which will produce a sum not to exceed an amount equal to five thousand dollars ($5,000) for each cemetery operated and maintained by such district, for the maintenance, operation, regulation and care of the cemeteries of such district and for the purchase and use of additional property for cemetery purposes.
K.S.A. 17-1365