TITLE 2. SEC. 69. Special meetings in districts. 70. Tax for building school house. 71. Tax, how to be collected. 74. Former site may be sold. 75. Avails how applied. 76. Tenure of office. 77 & 78. Vacancies, how supplied. 79. Penalty for refusing to serve. 81. Duty of district clerk. 82. Duty of trustees. 83. Repealed. 84. Deficiency how raised. 85. Apportionment of tax. 86, 87, 88, 89, 90. Liability to taxation. 92. To be paid by county treasurer. 97. Reduction of valuation. 98. Exemption from school tax. 99. Tax list, when to be made out. 100. When to be delivered to collector. 101. Collector's neglect to collect. 103. Taxes in joint districts. 104. Account books to be procured. 105. Fuel how provided. 106, 107 & 108. Repealed. 109. Expenses to be raised by tax. 110. Warrant, how issued. 111. Effect of tax warrant. 112. Warrants may be renewed. 113. Errors in rate bills, how corrected. 114. Town superintendent may be sued. 115. Trustees to make annual report. 116. Contents of report. 117. Poor house children excluded. 118. All other children included. 119. Indian children excluded. 120o. Children who may attend school. 121. District in two towns. 122. Separate neighbourhood. 123. Penalty for false report. 124". Property vested in trustees. 125. Trustees to render annual account. 126. Balance to be paid over. 127. Penalty for neglect. 128 & 129. Successors may sue for it 130. Penalty for not accounting. 131. Remedy for unpaid balances. 132. Right of appeal. 133 to 143. District libraries. 144 Duty of county clerk. SEC. 145. Penalties on district officers. ART. 5. 146. Costs of suits against officers. 147. Schools for colored children. 148. Duty of state superintendent. 149. Act to be printed. 150. Repealing clause. how to be altered. $ 43. In the erection or alteration of a school district, the Districts trustees of any district to be affected thereby, may apply to erected or the supervisor and town clerk to be associated with the town superintendent; and their action shall be final unless duly appealed from; the compensation of the supervisor and town clerk when thus associated, shall be the same as that of the town superintendent. districts. S44. Whenever it may become necessary or convenient to Joint form a district out of two or more adjoining towns, the town superintendent of each of such adjoining towns, or the major part of them, may form, regulate and alter such district. 3 D., 114. of districts take effect. $45. No alteration of any school district, made without the Alterations consent of the trustees thereof, shall take effect until three when to months after notice, in writing, shall be given by the town superintendent, to some one or more of such trustees; nor shall any alteration or regulation of an organized school district be made to take effect between the first day of December in any one year, and the first day of May following. district certain S 46. If the town superintendent in any town, shall require Special by notice in writing, the attendance of the town superinten- meetings in dents of any other town or towns, at a joint meeting for the cases may purpose of altering a school district formed from their respec- be called. tive towns, and a major part of the town superintendents notified shall refuse or neglect to attend, the town superintendents attending by a majority of votes, may call a special district meeting of such district, for the purpose of deciding on such proposed alteration; and the decision of such meeting shall be as valid as if made by the town superintendents of all the towns interested, but shall extend no further than to dissolve the district formed from such towns. in cases or more dated into $50. When two or more districts shall be consolidated into Provision one, the new district shall succeed to all the rights of property where two possessed by the districts of which it shall be composed; and districts when a district is annulled, and portions thereof are annexed are consoli to other districts, the property of the district so annulled shall one. be sold by the town superintendent of the town in which the school house is located, at public auction, to the highest bidder therefor, after at least five days' public notice, by notices posted in three or more public places in said town one (of) which shall be within the district so annulled, and the proceeds of such sale shall be first applied so far as requisite to the payment of any just debts due from the district so annulled, and the residue thereof shall be apportioned among the taxable inhabitants of the district so annulled in the ratio of TITLE 2. their several assessments upon the last corrected assessment Provision respecting longing to districts that are annulled. roll of the town or towns within which such district is located. As amended by Laws of 1849, ch. 382. S52. When there shall be any moneys in the hands of the moneys be officers, of a district that is or may be annulled, or belonging to such district, the town superintendent of the town may demand, sue for and recover the same, in his name of office, and shall apportion the same equitably between the districts to which the several portions of such annulled district may have been annexed, to be held and enjoyed as district property. 6 Pai., 639. $53. Whenever a school district shall be dissolved by consolidation, or otherwise, it shall be the duty of the trustees of such district to make out all the necessary rate-bills and taxlists, and issue their warrants according to law, for the collection of all such sums of money as shall be necessary to discharge all legal liabilities of such district so dissolved or consolidated, and to call special meetings of the legal voters of such district, if it be necessary; to raise money by tax, to discharge such demands, and the collector to whom any such rate-bill or tax-list and warrant shall be delivered for collection, shall have power to execute the same in the same manner and with the like authority as though such district had not been dissolved or consolidated. Of the powers of school district inhabitants, and of the choice, duties and powers of school district officers. $ 54. Whenever any school district shall be formed in any town, it shall be the duty of the town superintendent, within twenty days thereafter, to prepare a notice in writing, describing such district, and appointing a time and place for the first district meeting, and to deliver such notice to a taxable inhabitant of the district. 7 W., 341; 9 W., 35; 24 W., 266. $55. It shall be the duty of such inhabitant to notify every other inhabitant of the district, qualified to vote at district meetings, by reading the notice in the hearing of such inhabitant, or in case of his absence from home, by leaving a copy thereof, or of so much thereof as relates to the time and place of such meeting, at the place of his abode, at least six days before the time of the meeting. S 56. In case such notice shall not be given, or the inhabitants of a district shall refuse or neglect to assemble, or form a district meeting, when so notified; or in case any such district, having been formed and organized in pursuance of such notice, shall afterwards be dissolved, so that no competent authority shall exist therein, to call a special district meeting in the manner hereinafter provided; such notice shall be renewed by the town superintendent, and served in the manner above prescribed. ART. 5. Penalty for neglect. $57. Every taxable inhabitant to whom a notice of a district meeting shall have been properly delivered for service, refusal or who shall refuse or neglect to serve the notice in the manner above in this article enjoined, shall for every such offence forfeit the sum of five dollars. inhabitants $58. Whenever any district meeting shall be called, in the Duty of manner prescribed in the preceding sections of this article, it to meet. shall be the duty of the inhabitants of the district, qualified to vote at district meetings, to assemble together at the time and place mentioned in the notice. entilled to at district S59. Every male person of full age, residing in any school Persons district, and entitled to hold lands in this state, who owns or vote at hires real property in such district subject to taxation for meetings. school purposes, and every resident of such district authorized to vote at town meetings of the town in which such district or part of district is situated, and who has paid any rate-bill for teachers' wages in such district, within one year preceding, or who owns any personal property liable to be taxed for school purposes in such district, exceeding fifty dollars in value, exclusive of such as is exempt from execution, and no others, shall be entitled to vote at any school district meeting held in such district. 4 B., 504. in case of S60. If any person offering to vote at any school district Provision meeting, shall be challenged as unqualified by any legal voter persons in such district, the chairman presiding at such meeting shall challenged. being require the person so offering, to make the following declaration: "I do declare and affirm that I am an actual resident of this school district, and that I am qualified to vote at this meeting." And every person making such declaration shall be permitted to vote on all questions proposed at such meeting; but if any person shall refuse to make such declaration, his vote shall be rejected. making a ration, S61. Every person who shall wilfully make a false declara- Penalty for tion of his right to vote at a district meeting, upon being false declachallenged as herein before provided, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and punishable by imprisonment in the county jail for a term not exceeding one year, nor less than six months, at the discretion of the court; and any person voting at any school district meeting without being qualified, shall, on conviction, be subject to a fine of ten dollars, to be sued for and recovered by the trustees of the district for its use, and with costs of suit, before any justice of the peace. district $62. The inhabitants so entitled to vote, when so assem- Power of bled in such district meeting, or when lawfully assembled at meeting. any other district meeting, shall have power, by a majority of the votes of those present: To appoint a chairman 1. To appoint a chairman for the time being: 2. To adjourn from time to time, as occasion may require: and 3. To choose a district clerk, three trustees, a district col- To choose adjourn. officers. TITLE 2. Provision respecting longing to districts that are annulled. their several assessments upon the last corrected assessment roll of the town or towns within which such district is located. As amended by Laws of 1849, ch. 382. S52. When there shall be any moneys in the hands of the moneys be officers, of a district that is or may be annulled, or belonging to such district, the town superintendent of the town may demand, sue for and recover the same, in his name of office, and shall apportion the same equitably between the districts to which the several portions of such annulled district may have been annexed, to be held and enjoyed as district property. Debts of dissolved or consolidated districts how discharged. On the formation of districts notice of meeting to be given. Notice how promulgated. Notice when to be renewed. 6 Pai., 639. $ 53. Whenever a school district shall be dissolved by consolidation, or otherwise, it shall be the duty of the trustees of such district to make out all the necessary rate-bills and taxlists, and issue their warrants according to law, for the collection of all such sums of money as shall be necessary to discharge all legal liabilities of such district so dissolved or consolidated, and to call special meetings of the legal voters of such district, if it be necessary; to raise money by tax, to discharge such demands, and the collector to whom any such rate-bill or tax-list and warrant shall be delivered for collection, shall have power to execute the same in the same manner and with the like authority as though such district had not been dissolved or consolidated. Of the powers of school district inhabitants, and of the choice, duties and powers of school district officers. $ 54. Whenever any school district shall be formed in any town, it shall be the duty of the town superintendent, within twenty days thereafter, to prepare a notice in writing, describing such district, and appointing a time and place for the first district meeting, and to deliver such notice to a taxable inhabitant of the district. 7 W., 341; 9 W., 35; 24 W., 266. $ 55. It shall be the duty of such inhabitant to notify every other inhabitant of the district, qualified to vote at district meetings, by reading the notice in the hearing of such inhabitant, or in case of his absence from home, by leaving a copy thereof, or of so much thereof as relates to the time and place of such meeting, at the place of his abode, at least six days before the time of the meeting. $56. In case such notice shall not be given, or the inhabitants of a district shall refuse or neglect to assemble, or form a district meeting, when so notified; or in case any such district, having been formed and organized in pursuance of such notice, shall afterwards be dissolved, so that no competent authority shall exist therein, to call a special district meeting in the manner hereinafter provided; such notice shall be renewed by the town superintendent, and served in the manner above prescribed. |