his hands not paid out on the orders of trustees for teachers' wages, nor drawn by them for library purposes, and the districts to which they stand accredited (and if no such money remain in his hands, he shall report that fact); and thereafter he shall not pay out any of said moneys until he shall have received the certificate of the next apportionment; and the moneys so returned by him shall be re-apportioned as hereinbefore directed. for neg $5. Any supervisor who neglects to make the Penalty said return, or shall make a false return, shall for- lect. feit twenty-five dollars, to be recovered by his successor in office, or if he be re-elected, by the county treasurer of the county in which the town lies, for the benefit of the common schools of the county. § 6. It is the duty of every supervisor: Supervis *1. To disburse the school moneys in his hands, ors' duties. applicable to the payment of teachers' wages, upon and only upon the written orders of a sole trustee, or a majority of the trustees, in favor of qualified teachers, or upon the order of a trustee of a separate neighborhood in favor of any teacher of a school in an adjoining state, recognized by him and patronized by the inhabitants of such neighborhood. Such teacher shall be deemed a qualified teacher. +2. To disburse the library moneys upon, and only upon, the written orders of a sole trustee, or of a majority of the trustees. 3. In the case of a union free school district, to pay over all the school money apportioned thereto, whether for the payment of teachers' wages, or as library moneys, to the treasurer of such district, upon the order of its board of education. 4. To keep a just and true account of all the school moneys received and disbursed by him during each year, and to lay the same, with proper vouchers, before the board of town auditors at each annual meeting thereof. 5. To have a bound blank book (the cost of which shall be a town charge), and to enter therein all his receipts and disbursements of school moneys, speci *As amended by sec. 12, chap. 567, Laws of 1875. fying from whom and for what purposes they were received, and to whom and for what purposes they were paid out; and to deliver the book to his successor in office. 6. Within fifteen days after the termination of his office, to make out a just and true account of all school moneys theretofore received by him and of all disbursements thereof, and to deliver the same to the town clerk, to be filed and recorded, and to notify his successor in office of such rendition and filing. 7. So soon as the bond to the county treasurer, by the third article of the third title of this act required, shall have been given by him and approved by the treasurer, to deliver to his predecessor the treasurer's certificate of these facts, to procure from the town clerk a copy of his predecessor's account, and to demand and receive from him any and all school moneys remaining in his hands. 8. Upon receiving such a certificate from his successor, and not before, to pay to him all school moneys remaining in his hands, and to forthwith file the certificate in the town clerk's office. 9. By his name of office, when the duty is not elsewhere imposed by law, to sue for and recover penalties and forfeitures imposed for violations of this act, and for any default or omission of any town officer or school district board or officer under this act; and after deducting his costs and expenses, to report the balances to the school commissioner. 10. To act, when thereto legally required, in the erection or alteration of a school district, as in the sixth title of this act provided, and to perform any other duty which may be devolved upon him by this act, or any other act relating to common schools. TITLE V. OF THE DUTIES OF THE TOWN CLERK UNDER THIS ACT. SECTION 1. It shall be the duty of the town clerk Duties of of each town: 1. Carefully to keep all books, maps, papers and records of his office touching common schools, and forthwith to report to the supervisor any loss of or injury to any of them which may happen. 2. To receive from the supervisor the certificates of apportionment of school moneys to the town, and to record them in a book to be kept for that purpose. 3. Forthwith to notify the trustees of the several school districts and separate neighborhoods, of the filing of each such certificate. town clerk. Town *4. To see that the trustees of the school districts and separate neighborhoods make and deposit with him their annual reports within the time prescribed by law, and to deliver them to the school commissioner on demand; and to furnish the school com- clerk to re missioner of the school commissioner district in names of which his town is situated, the names and post-of- officers to fice address of the school district officers reported to commishim by the district clerks. 5. To distribute to the trustees of the school districts and separate neighborhoods, all blanks and circulars which shall be delivered or forwarded to him by the state superintendent or school commissioner for that purpose. 6. To receive from the supervisor, and record in a book kept for that purpose, the annual account of the receipts and disbursements of school moneys required to be submitted to the town auditors together with the action of the town auditors thereon, and to send a copy of the account and of the action thereon, by mail, to the superintendent of public instruction, whenever required by him, and to file and preserve the vouchers accompanying the account. *As amended by sec. 5, chap. 647, Laws of 1865. port district sioners. Commissioner's duties in 7. To receive and to record, in the same book, the supervisor's final account of the school moneys received and disbursed by him, and deliver a copy thereof to such supervisor's successor in office. 8. To receive from the outgoing supervisor, and file and record in the same book, the county treasurer's certificate, that his successor's bond has been given and approved. 9. To receive, file and record the descriptions of the school districts and neighborhoods, and all papers and proceedings delivered to him by the school commissioner pursuant to the next title of this act. 10. To act, when thereto legally required, in the erection or alteration of a school district, as in the next title of this act provided. *11. To receive and preserve the books, papers and records of any dissolved school district, which shall be ordered, as hereinafter provided, to be deposited in his office. 12. To perform any other duty which may be devolved upon him by this act, or by any other act touching common schools. § 2. The necessary expenses and disbursements of the town clerk, in the performance of said duties, are a town charge, and shall be audited and paid as such. TITLE VI. OF THE FORMATION, DISSOLUTION AND ALTERATION SECTION 1. It shall be the duty of each school respect to commissioner, in respect to the territory within his school dis- district : tricts. 1. To divide it, so far as practicable, into a convenient number of school districts, and alter the same as herein provided; 2. In conjunction with the commissioner or commissioners of an adjoining school commissioner dis *Original sub-division 11 stricken out by sec. 18, chap. 647, Laws of 1865. trict or districts, to set off joint districts composed of adjoining parts of their respective districts; 3. To set off by itself any neighborhood adjoining any other state of the Union, where it shall be found most convenient for the inhabitants to send their children to a school in such adjoining state; 4. To describe and number the school districts, and joint districts, and to deliver, in writing, to the town clerk, the description and number of each district lying in whole or in part in his town, together with all notices, consents and proceedings relating to the formation or alteration thereof, immediately after such formation or alteration. Every joint district shall bear the same number in every school commissioner district of whose territory it is in part composed. 5. To deliver to the town-clerk of the town in which it lies, in whole or in part, a description of each such separate neighborhood. districts *g 2. With the written consent of the trustees of May alter all the districts to be affected thereby, he may, by with conorder, alter any school-district within his jurisdic- sent of tion, and fix, by said order, a day when the alteration shall take effect. trustees. on the re § 3. If the trustees of any such district refuse to consent, he may make and file with the town-clerk his order making the alteration, but reciting the refusal, and directing that the order shall not take effect, as to the dissenting district or districts, until a day therein to be named, and not less than three months after the notice in the next section mentioned. +84. Within ten days after making and filing such Procedure order, he shall give at least a week's notice, in writ- fusal of ing, to one or more of the assenting and dissenting the alteratrustees of any district or districts to be affected by tion of a the proposed alterations, that at a specified time and trict at a named place within the town in which either of the districts to be affected lies, he will hear the objections to the alteration. The trustees of any district to be affected by such order may request the supervisor *As amended by sec. 5, chap. 406, Laws of 1867. As amended by sec. 6, chap. 406, Laws of 1867. As amended by sec. 6, chap. 647, Laws of 1865. trustees to school-dis |