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SECTION 1. There shall be a meeting holden annually in the month of March, in each school district, excepting in such towns as shall have adopted the provisions of the chapter of the revised statutes relating to schools in Portsmouth, and the prudential committee of the district shall issue his or their warrant to the inhabitants of such district qualified to vote in town affairs, stating the time, place and purposes of the meeting, and shall warn the same by posting up a copy of such warrant, attested by such committee, on the door of the school house, if there be any in the district, otherwise at one or more public places in the district, seven days at least prior thereto. (Laws of 1845, chap. 222, sec. 1.)

SEC. 2. Special meetings may be called at any time in the same manner, except for raising money or building or repairing school houses, in which cases an attested copy of the warrant issued shall be posted up fifteen days prior to the meeting, or given to each voter in hand or left at his usual place of abode at least ten days prior thereto. (Laws of 1845, chap. 222, sec. 2.)

SEC. 3. If the prudential committee shall neglect to warn any such annual meeting, by issuing a warrant and posting up an attested copy thereof, as aforesaid, prior to the fifteenth day of March, or shall neglect for the space of ten days after application made in writing by three or more voters of the district, to call any such

special meeting, the selectmen of the town upon a like application shall call such annual or special meeting, by issuing their warrant, and causing a copy thereof, attested by them, to be posted up or served in the manner herein before prescribed. (Laws of 1845, chap. 222, sec. 3.)

SEC. 4. In all cases the original warrant, with a certificate thereon verified by oath, which oath the clerk of the district is hereby authorized to administer, that a copy thereof was posted up or served as required by law, shall be given to the clerk of the district on or before the day of the meeting, and shall be recorded by said clerk in the records of the district. (Laws of 1845, chap. 222, sec. 4.

SEC. 5. Any person qualified to vote in town affairs, may vote at any district meeting in the district in which he resides and has his home. (R. S., chap. 70, sec. 6.)

SEC. 6. If any person at any school district meeting duly called and holden agreeably to the provisions of the chapter to which this act is in addition (this chapter-70 of R. S.) shall give in more than one vote for any officer voted for at such meeting; or if any person under the age of twenty-one years, or any alien not naturalized, or any person who does not reside or have his home in such school district, he shall be punished by fine not exceeding thirty dollars, or may be imprisoned in the common jail not exceeding three months. (Laws of 1847, chap. 496.)

SEC. 7. The officers of the district shall be a moderator, a clerk and a prudential committee not exceeding three, all of whom shall be legal voters in the district, and shall hold their offices until the next annual meeting, or until others are duly elected and qualified in their stead. (R. S., chap. 70, sec. 7.)

SEC. 8. The moderator of any school district meeting, or of any high school associated district meeting, shall be chosen by ballot by a plurality of the legal voters present and voting at said meeting; and such moderator shall be vested with all the power and authority which moderators of town meetings by law have to conduct the business and preserve order in the meetings over which they preside. (Laws of 1852, chap. 1301.)

SEC. 9. The moderator of any school district meeting duly called and holden, before entering upon the duties of his office, shall be sworn to the faithful performance thereof, which oath may be administered by the clerk of the previous year, or any other legal voter of the district calling the meeting to order, and said oath shall be recorded. (Laws of 1850, chap. 981.)

SEC. 10. The clerk before entering upon the duties of his office shall be sworn to the faithful performance thereof, which oath may be administered by the moderator and shall be recorded. The clerk shall keep a true and perfect record of all the doings of each meeting, which shall be signed by him, shall deliver to the selectmen a certified copy of every vote to raise money within ten days thereafter, and shall make and certify copies of any record when

required and payment therefor tendered. (R. S., chap. 70, sec. 8.) SEC. 11. If any vacancy shall occur in the office of clerk or prudential committee from neglect to choose or any other cause, the selectmen upon the application of one or more voters in such district shall fill such vacancy, and the officers thus appointed shall hold their offices until new ones are legally chosen and qualified, and shall possess all the powers and be subject to all the duties incident to said offices. (R. S., chap. 70, sec. 9.)

SEC. 12. It shall be the duty of the prudential committee to select and hire teachers for the district, provide for them board, furnish necessary fuel, make such occasional repairs in the school house and furniture as may be necessary, not exceeding in amount five per cent. of the school money for the district, notify the superintending school committee of the commencement of the summer and winter school and give them all such information and assistance as may be necessary for the performance of their duties. (R. S., chap. 70, sec. 10.)

SEC. 13. If any member of the prudential committee is incompetent or irresponsible, or mismanages the affairs of the district, the selectmen on the petition of one fourth the legal voters of the district may dismiss him from office, and cause him to be notified of such dismission by giving to him in hand or leaving at his usual place of abode in such district a written notice thereof. (R. S., chap. 70, sec. 11.)

SEC. 14. Whenever the selectmen of any town shall be applied to, to dismiss any member of any prudential committee of any school district in said town, under said section [the thirteenth section of this chapter] (Sec. 11, chap. 70, R. S.) they shall thereupon assign a time and place of hearing, require of the petitioners a specification of charge, and shall cause a notice of the time and place of hearing, together with a copy of said specification, to be served on the party accused, at least four days before the time of hearing, by giving the same to him in person, or leaving the same at his usual place of abode in said town. (Laws of 1846, chap. 319, sec. 1.)

SEC. 15. On such hearing, the parties and witnesses may be examined by said selectmen on oath; and if on such hearing the selectmen shall be of opinion that the party accused is incompetent, irresponsible or mismanages the affairs of the district, they shall dismiss him-otherwise not. (Laws of 1846, chap. 319, sec. 2.)

SEC. 16. Whenever ten legal voters in any school district in any of the towns or cities within this State shall, in writing, and thirty days before the annual meeting in such district, apply to any one of the committee having charge of the prudential affairs of such district, requesting that a check list of the voters of such district may be used at such annual meeting, it shall be the duty of such committee to make and post up and correct a list of all the legal voters in their respective districts, in the same way and man

ner that selectmen of towns are now required to do in regard to check lists in their respective towns; and the check lists in said districts so made out, posted up and corrected, shall be used and checked at said annual meeting, whenever a ballot is taken, in the same way and manner as is now required by law in the election of state officers. (Laws of 1851, chap. 1118, sec. 1.)

SEC. 17. Any school district in any town or city within this State at any annual meeting thereof, may by a major vote adopt this act, [the sixteenth section of this chapter] and when so adopted it shall be thereafterwards in force in such school district so adopting the same, without said written application provided in said sixteenth section. (Laws of 1851, chap. 1118, sec. 2.)

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SECTION 1. At any meeting legally holden for the purpose, any district may vote to build, purchase, repair, alter or remove a school house in and for such district and other necessary buildings therefor, and to furnish the same with all necessary apparatus and furniture for the use of the school therein; may decide upon the location thereof and purchase land therefor not exceeding one acre, may choose committees with powers to carry said votes into effect, and may raise money therefor. (R. S., chap. 71, sec. 1, amended by laws of 1845, chap. 224.)

SEC. 2. If any three or more voters in such district are aggrieved by such location, they may apply by petition to the selectmen, who, if they think expedient, shall appoint a committee of three or five qualified voters of the town not resident in the district, to examine and report thereon. (R. S., chap. 71, sec. 2.)

SEC. 3. Said committee shall appoint a time and place of hearing said petition, and shall notify one or more of said petitioners, and also the prudential committee or clerk of the district thereof, and after such hearing, their report thereon, signed by them, returned to the selectmen and recorded in the books of the town, shall be binding upon said district as if such new location had been made by a vote of the district. (R. S., chap. 71, sec. 3.)

SEC. 4. If such location is changed, costs shall be taxed by the committee in favor of the petitioners for the reasonable expenses of the committee and of the petitioners, which shall be paid by the district; if the location is not changed, the expenses of the committee shall be paid by the petitioners. (R. S., chap. 71, sec. 4.)

SEC. 5. If at any meeting the district do not agree upon a location for a school house, the selectmen upon the petition of three or more voters in the district shall appoint a time and place of hearing thereon, notify one or more of the petitioners and the prudential committee or clerk of the district thereof, and after such hearing, their report designating a location, which shall be recorded in the books of the town, shall be binding upon such district as if made by a vote thereof. (R. S., chap. 71, sec. 5.)

SEC. 6. If any district is destitute of a school house, or suffers the same to be out of repair, or shall be ordered to remove or fit up the same, or to raise any sum of money or do any act required by law, and shall neglect so to build, repair, remove, or fit up such school house, or raise such sum or do such act, the selectmen upon the petition of three or more voters resident in the district, stating such facts, may assess and collect such sum of money as may be necessary, and cause such house to be built, removed, repaired or fitted up, such moneys to be expended and such orders to be executed in such manner as they shall think expedient. (R. S., chap. 71, sec. 6.)

SEC. 7. If a suitable place for the location of a school house is designated in either of the ways aforesaid, and the owner shall refuse to sell the same for a reasonable price, the selectmen upon petition therefor may lay out said lot not exceeding one half of an acre, if in the opinion of the selectmen so much is needed for that purpose, and appraise the damages to the owner, and the proceedings thereon for obtaining increased damages in case the owner is dissatisfied shall be the same as in case of a highway laid out by the selectmen. (R. S., chap. 71, sec. 7, amended by laws of 1849, chap. 853.)

SEC. 8. A record of the doings of the selectmen shall be made by them in the books of the town, and upon payment or tender of

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