Trustees may renew sue delin quents. tion of any district school rate bill shall have the like force and effect as warrants issued by boards of supervisors of counties to collectors of taxes in towns; and the collector to whom any such warrant may be delivered for collection is hereby authorized and required to collect from every person in such tax list or rate bill named, the sum therein set opposite to his name, or the amount due from any person or persons specified therein, in the same manner that collectors are authorized to collect town and county charges. No. 137-112. If the sum or sums of money, payable by warrants or any person named in such tax list or rate bill, shall not be paid by him, or collected by such warrant within the time therein limited, it shall and may be lawful for the trustees to renew such warrant, in respect to such delinquent person; or in case such person shali not reside within their district, at the time of making out a tax list or rate bill, or shall not reside therein at the expiration of such warrant, and no goods or chattels can be found therein whereon to levy the same; the trustees may sue for and recover the same, in their name of office. Error in tax lists or rate bills how @orrected. Proceedings superintend ents with hold moneys No. 138-§ 113. Whenever the trustees of any school district shall discover any error in a tax list or rate bill made out by them, they may with the approbation and consent of the state superintendent, after refunding any amount that may have been improperly collected on such tax list or rate bill, if the same shall be required, amend and correct such tax list or rate bill, in conformity to law; and whenever more than one renewal of a warrant for the collection of any tax list or rate bill, may become necessary in any district, the trustees may make such further renewal, with the written. approbation of the town superintendent of the town in which the school house of said district shall be located, to be endorsed upon such warrant. No. 139--§ 114. If the moneys apportioned to a district by when to the town superintendent shall not have been paid, it shall be the duty of the trustees thereof, to bring a suit for the recovery of the same, with interest, against the town superintendent in whose hands the same shall be, or to pursue such other remedy for the recovery thereof, as is or shall be given by law. Annual reports of trustees. Of the annual reports of trustees, their duties and liabilities. No. 140- 115. The trustees of each school district shall, between the first and fifteenth days of January, in every year, make and transmit a report, in writing, to the town superintendent for such town, dated on the first day of January, in the year in which it shall be transmitted. No. 141-116. Every such report, signed and certified by How made. a majority of the trustees making it, shall be delivered to the town superintendent, and shall specify, 1. The whole time any school has been kept in their dis trict during the year ending on the day previous to the date Its contents. of such report, and distinguishing what portion of the time such school has been kept by qualified teachers : 2. The amount of moneys received from the town superintendent during such year, and the manner in which such moneys have been expended : 3. The number of children taught in the district during such year, and the name and age of each child : 4. The name and age of each child residing in the district on the last day of December previous to the making of such report, over the age of five years, and under sixteen years of age, (except Indian children otherwise provided for by law,) and the names of the parents or other persons with whom such children shall respectively reside, and the number of children residing with each : 5. The amount of money paid for teachers' wages, in addition to the public money paid therefor, the amount of taxes levied in said district for purchasing school-house sites, for building, hiring, purchasing, repairing and insuring schoolhouses, for fuel, for supplying deficiencies in rate bills, for district libraries, or for any other purpose allowed by law, and such other information in relation to the schools and the districts as the superintendent of common schools may from time to time require. inmates of No. 142-§ 117. It shall be not lawful for the trustees of any Paupers and school district to include in their annual returns the names orphan asyof any children who are supported at a county poor-house, or be returned orphan asylum. lums not to in annual re tees. No. 143-§ 118. The annual reports of trustees of school dis- Children to tricts, of children residing in their district, shall include all be included over five and under sixteen years of age, who shall, at the ports of trusdate of such report, actually be in the district, composing a part of the family of their parents or guardians, or employers, if such parents, guardians, or employers reside at the time in such district, although such residence be temporary, but such report shall not include children belonging to the family of any person who shall be an inhabitant of any other district in this state, in which such children may by law be included in the reports of its trustees. dren not to No. 144—§ 119. The trustees of school districts shall not Indian chilenumerate and include in their annual reports any Indian be included. children residing on Indian reservations where schools are taught. Children en No. 145-120. All children included in the reports of the titled to at- trustees of any new school district shall be entitled to attend tend schools. the schools of such district; and whenever it shall be neces District sary for the accommodation of the children in any district, the trustees thereof may hire, temporarily, any room or rooms for the keeping of schools therein, and the expense thereof shall be a charge upon such district. No. 146-§ 121. Where a school district is formed out of formed from two or more adjoining towns, it shall be the duty of the trushow tees of such district to make and transmit a report to the town two or more towns to report. Separate hoods, how to report. superintendent for each of the towns out of which such district shall be formed, within the same time, and in the same manner, as is required by sections one hundred and fifteen, and one hundred and sixteen of this act; distinguishing the number of children over the age of five and under sixteen years, residing in each part of a district which shall be in a different town from the other parts, and the number of children taught, and the amount of school moneys received from each part of the district. No. 147--§ 122. Where any neighborhood shall be set off neighbor by itself, the inhabitants of such separate neighborhood shall annually meet together and choose one trustee; whose duty it shall be every year, within the time limited for making district reports, to make and transmit a report in writing, bearing date on the first day of January, in the year in which it shall be transmitted to the town superintendent of the town from which such neighborhood shall be set off, specifying the number of children over the age of five and under sixteen years, residing in such neighborhood, the amount of moneys received from the town superintendent since the date of last report, and the manner in which the same has been expended. Penalty for No. 148-- 123. Every trustee of a school district, or sepafalse report rate neighborhood, who shall wilfully sign a false report to the town superintendent of his town, with the intent of causing such town superintendent to apportion and pay to his district or neighborhood, a larger sum than its just proportion of the school moneys of the town, shall for each offence, forfeit the sum of twenty-five dollars, and shall also be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor. Property of No. 149-§ 124. All property now vested in the trustees of districts how any school district, for the use of schools in the district, or which may be hereafter transferred to such trustees for that purpose, shall be held by them as a corporation. held. Trustees to No. 150-§ 125. The trustees of each school district shall, account an- once in each year render to the district, at its annual district meeting, a just and true account in writing, of all moneys received by them respectively for the use of their district; nually. 2 and of the manner in which the same shall have been expended, which account shall be delivered to the district clerk, and be filed and recorded by him. to succes sors. No. 151-§ 126. Any balance of such moneys, which shall Balance paid appear from such account to remain in the hands of the trustees, or either of them, at the time of rendering the account, shall immediately be paid to some one or more of their successors in office. No. 152-127. Every trustee who shall refuse or neglect Forfeiture to render such account, or to pay over any balance so found for neglect. in his hands, shall for each offence forfeit the sum of twenty-five dollars. How prose No. 153--§ 128. It shall be the duty of his successors in office to prosecute, without delay, in their name of office, for cuted. the recovery of such forfeiture; and the moneys recovered shall be applied by them to the use and benefit of their district schools. mer trustees. No. 154-§ 129. Such successors shall also have the same re- Remedy medies for the recovery of any unpaid balance in the hands against forof a former trustee, or his representatives, as are given to the town superintendent against a former town superintendent and his representatives; and the moneys recovered shall be applied by them to the use of their district, in the same manner as if they had been paid without suit. and by cuted for No. 155-§ 130. Every trustee of a school district who Trustee in shall, while in office, neglect or refuse annually to render an office how account of the moneys received by him as such trustee, shall whom prosefor each offence forfeit the sum of twenty five dollars; and it neglect. shall be the duty of the town superintendent of the town in which such trustee may reside, to prosecute, without delay, in his name of office, for the recovery of such forfeiture; and the moneys recovered shall be applied by such superintendent to the use and benefit of the district school of the district to which such defaulting trustee shall belong. intendents. No. 156-131. Such town superintendent shall also have Remedy to the same remedies for the recovery of any unpaid balance of town supermoneys, in the hands of such delinquent trustee, in office, as are given to the town superintendents in office, against a former town superintendent; and the moneys recovered shall be applied by such town superintendent to the use of the district to which the same may belong, and be paid over to the trustee or trustees of such district, who are not in default. No. 157-132. Any person conceiving himself aggrieved Appeals to in consequence of any decision made: 1. By any school district meeting: 2. By the town superintendent in the forming or altering, superintendent of common schools. School dis or in refusing to form or alter any school district, or in refusing to pay any school moneys to any such district: 3. By the trustees of any district, in paying any teacher, or refusing to pay him, or in refusing to admit any scholar gratuitously into any school: 4. Or concerning any other matter under the present title may appeal to the superintendent, who is hereby authorized and required to examine and decide the same, and the decision of the state superintendent shall be final and conclusive. Of school district libraries. No. 158-133. The taxable inhabitants of each school district library. trict in the state, shall have power when lawfully assembled at any district meeting, to lay a tax on the district not exceeding ten dollars in any one year, for the purchase of a district library, consisting of such books as they shall in their district meeting direct, and such further sum as they may deem necessary for the purchase of a book case: The intention to propose such tax, shall be stated in the notice required to be given of such meeting. Librarian. Taxes. Library fund. No. 159-§ 134. The clerk of the district, or such other person as the taxable inhabitants may at their annual meeting designate and appoint by a majority of votes, shall be the librarian of the district, and shall have the care and custody of the library, under such regulations as the inhabitants may adopt for his government. No. 160-§ 135. The taxes authorized by the foregoing section to be raised, shall be assessed and collected in the same manner as a tax for building a school house. No. 161-136. The sum of fifty-five thousand dollars, together with an equal sum to be raised in the towns, and directed to be distributed to the several school districts of this state, by the fourth section of chapter two hundred and thirty-seven, of the laws of eighteen hundred and thirtyeight, shall continue to be applied to the purchase of books for a district library, until otherwise directed; but whenever the number of volumes in the district library of any district, numbering over fifty children between the ages of five and sixteen years, shall exceed one hundred and twenty-five; or of any district numbering fifty children or less, between the said ages, shall exceed one hundred volumes, the inhabitants. of the district qualified to vote therein, may, at a special or annual meeting duly notified for that purpose, by a majority of votes, appropriate the whole, or any part of the library money belonging to the district for the current year, to the purchase of maps, globes, black-boards, or other scientific apparatus, for the use of the school: And in every district having the required number of volumes in the district libra |