raised by instalments. of a major part of the superintendents of said towns shall be necessary for such purpose. Tax may be No. 96-§ 71. Whenever a majority of all the taxable inhabitants of any school district, to be ascertained by taking and recording the ayes and noes of such inhabitants attending at any annual, special or adjourned school district meeting legally called or held, shall determine that the sum proposed and provided for in the next preceding section, shall be raised by instalments; it shall be the duty of the trustees of such district, and they are hereby authorized to cause the same to be levied, raised and collected, in equal annual instalments, in the same manner, and with the like authority that other school district taxes are raised, levied and collected, and to make out their tax list and warrant, for the collection of such instalments as they become payable according to the vote of the said inhabitants; but the payment or collection. of the last instalment shall not be extended beyond five years from the time such vote was taken; and no vote to levy any such tax shall be reconsidered except at an adjourned general or special meeting to be held within thirty days thereafter, and the same majority shall be required for reconsideration as is required to levy such tax. Town superintendents ize valua tions in certain cases. No. 97—§ 72. In every case where a district embraces a may equal part of more than one town, the town superintendents of the towns so in part embraced, upon application of the trustees of such districts, or of those persons liable to pay taxes upon real property therein, shall proceed to enquire and determine whether the valuation of real property upon the several assessment rolls of said towns are substantially just as compared with each other, so far as such district is concerned, and if determined not to be so, they shall determine the relative proportion of taxes that ought to be assessed upon the real property of the parts of such districts so lying in different towns, and the trustees of such district shall thereupon assess the proportion of any tax thereafter to be raised according to the determination of said superintendents until the same shall be altered by said superintendents upon like application, using the assessment rolls of the several towns to distribute the said proportion among the persons liable to be assessed for the same. In cases where two superintendents shall be unable to agree, they shall summon a superintendent from some adjoining town, who shall unite in such inquiry and determination. Sites of school hous how altered. No. 98-§ 73. Whenever a school house shall have been es when and built or purchased for a district, the site of such school house shall not be changed, nor the building thereon be removed, as long as the district shall remain unaltered, unless by the consent, in writing, of the town superintendents of mer sites. for. common schools, of the town or towns within which such district shall be situated, stating that in their opinion such removal is necessary; nor then, unless a majority of all the taxable inhabitants of said district to be ascertained by taking and recording the ayes and noes, at a special meeting called for that purpose, shall be in favor of such new site. No. 99-§ 74. Whenever the site of a school house shall Sale of forhave been changed as herein provided, the inhabitants of the district entitled to vote, lawfully assembled at any district meeting, shall have power by a majority of the votes of those present, to direct the sale of the former site or lot, and the buildings thereon, and appurtenances, or any part thereof, at such price, and upon such terms as they shall deem most advantageous to the district; and any deed duly exe- Deed therecuted by the trustees of such district, or a majority of them, in pursuance of such direction, shall be valid and effectual to pass all the estate or interest of such school district in the premises intended to be conveyed thereby, to the grantee named in such deed; and when a credit shall be directed to be given upon such sale, for the consideration money, or any part thereof, the trustees are hereby authorized to take in their corporate name, such security by bond and mort- Security for gage, or otherwise, for the payment thereof, as they shall purchase deem best, and shall hold the same as a corporation, and account therefor to their successors in office and to the district, in the manner they are now required by law to account for moneys received by them; and the trustees of any such district for the time being, may in their name of office, sue for and recover the moneys due and unpaid upon any security so taken by them, or their predecessors in office, with interest and cost. how taken. applied to No. 100--§ 75. All moneys arising from any sale made in Avails to be pursance of the last preceding section, shall be appropria- new site, &c ted to the payment of the expenses incurred in procuring a new site, and in removing or erecting a school house, or either of them, so far as such application thereof shall be deemed necessary. No. 101-76. The clerk, trustees, collector and librarian District offi of each school district, shall hold their respective offices until cers. the annual meeting of such district next following the time of Tenure. their appointment, and until others shall be elected in their places. how filled. No. 102—§ 77. In case the office of trustee shall be vaca- Vacancies ted by the death, refusal to serve, removal out of the district, or incapacity of any such officer, and the vacancy shall not be supplied by a district meeting within one month thereafter, the town superintendent of the town may oppoint any person residing in such district to supply such vacancy. Ib. Forfeitures. Resignations Duty of district clerk. No. 103-78. In case of a vacancy in the office of school district clerk, collector or librarian, for any of the causes mentioned in the next preceding section, such vacancy may be supplied by appointment under the hands of the trustees of the district or a majority of them, and the persons so appointed shall hold their respective offices until the next annual meeting of the district, and until others are elected in their places. No. 104-§ 79. Every person duly chosen or appointed to any such office, who, without sufficient cause, shall refuse to serve therein, shall forfeit the sum of five dollars; and every person so chosen or appointed, and not having refused to accept, who shall neglect to perform the duties of his office, shall forfeit the sum of ten dollars. No. 105-§ 80. Any person chosen or appointed to any such office, may resign the same by presenting his resignation to the town superintendent of the town where such officer shall reside, who is authorised for sufficient cause shown to him, to accept the same, and the acceptance of such resignation shall be a bar to the recovery of either of the penalties mentioned in the preceding section. The town superintendent accepting the resignation shall give notice thereof to the clerk, or to one of the trustees of the school district, to which the officer resigning shall belong. No. 106—§ 81. It shall be the duty of the clerk of each school district, 1. To record the proceedings of his district in a book to be provided for that purpose by the district, and to enter therein true copies of all reports made by the trustees of his district, to the town superintendent. 2. To give notice of the time and place for special district meetings, when the same shall be called by the trustees of the district, to each inhabitant of such district liable to pay taxes, at least five days before such meeting shall be held, in the manner prescribed in the fifty-fifth section of this act: 3. To affix a notice in writing of the time and place for any adjourned district meeting, when the same shall be adjourned for a longer time than one month, in at least four of the most public places of such district, at least five days before the time appointed for such adjourned meeting: 4. To give the like notice of every annual district meeting: 5. To keep and preserve all records, books and papers; belonging to his office, and to deliver the same to his successor in office; and in case of his neglect or refusal so to do, he shall be subject to a fine of not exceeding fifty dollars. Of the duty of trustees of school districts. No. 107-§ 82. It shall be the duty of the trustees of Duty of trusevery school district, and they shall have power, 1. To call special meetings of the inhabitants of such districts liable to pay taxes, whenever they shall deem it necessary and proper: 2. To give notice of special, annual and adjourned meetings in the manner prescribed in the last preceding section, if there be no clerk of the district, or he be absent or incapable of acting: 3. To make out a tax list of every district tax, voted by any such meeting, containing the names of all the taxable inhabitants residing in the district at the time of making out the list, and the amount of tax payable by each inhabitant, set opposite to his name: 4. To annex to such tax list a warrant, directed to the collector of the district, for the collection of the sums in such list mentioned: 5. To purchase or lease a site for the district school house, as designated by a meeting of the district, and to build, hire or purchase, keep in repair, and furnish such school house with necessary fuel and appendages, out of the funds collected and paid to them for such purposes: 6. To have the custody and safe-keeping of the district school-house : 7. To contract with and employ all teachers in the districts: 8. To pay the wages of such teachers when qualified, out of the money's which shall come into their hands from the town superintendents, so far as such moneys shall be sufficient for that purpose; and to collect the residue of such wages, excepting such sums as may have been collected by the teachers, from all persons liable therefor: 9. To divide the public moneys received by them, whenever authorized by a vote of their district, into not exceeding two portions for each year; to assign and apply one of such portions to each term during which a school shall be kept in such district, for the payment of the teacher's wages during such term ; and to collect the residue of such wages, not paid by the proportion of public money allotted for that purpose, from the person liable therefor, as above provided: 10. To exempt from the payment of the wages of teachers, either in part or wholly, such indigent persons within the district as they shall think proper, in any one quarter or term, and the same shall be a charge upon such district : 11. To certify such exemptions and deliver the certificate thereof to the clerk of the district, to be kept on file in his office : tees. Further duty of trustees as to rate bills. Deficiencies in rate bills 12. To ascertain by examination of the school lists kept by such teachers, the number of days for which each person not so exempted shall be liable to pay for instruction, and the amount payable by each person : 13. To make out a rate bill containing the name of each person so liable, and the amount for which he is liable; and 'to annex thereto a warrant for the collection thereof : 14. To deliver such rate bill, with the warrant annexed, after the expiration of thirty days from the time the same shall have been made out and signed by them, and notices thereof posted as provided for the payment and collection of district taxes, to the collector of the district, who shall execute the sume in like manner with other warrants directed by such trustees, to such collector for the collection of district taxes. No. 108-83. The said trustees, after such rate bill and warrant shall be made out and signed as herein provided, shall cause notices thereof signed by them to be posted in their district as directed in the case of the collection of district taxes, and it shall be the duty of the said trustees, or one of them, or the teacher to whom the moneys in such rate bill are payable, at any time within thirty days thereafter, to receive payment from any person named therein, of the sum due from such person, and the same proceedings shall be had to compel and enforce the payment of the sums of money remaining due on such rate bills after the expiration of the said thirty days, as is herein provided for the collection of district taxes, and the collector to whom any such rate bill and warrant shall be delivered for collection shall possess the same power, be entitled to the same fees, and subject to the same restrictions and liabilities with their bail and sureties, as by this title is provided in proceeding to collect school district taxes. No. 109-84. Where by reason of the inability to collect or taxes how any tax or rate bill, there shall be a deficiency in the amount to be raised raised, the inhabitants of the district in district meeting shall direct the raising of a sufficient sum to supply such deficiency by tax, or the same shall be collected by rate bill, as the case may require. Trustees ceed in mak list. Of the assessment and collection of school district taxes. No. 110- 85. In making out a tax list, the trustees of how to pro- school districts shall apportion the same on all the taxable ining out tax habitants of the district or corporations holding property therein, according to the valuations of the taxable property which shall be owned or possessed by them at the time of making out such list within such district or partly within such district and partly in an adjoining district, and upon all real |