district and its officers by this chapter, except as otherwise specifically provided. The provisions of this chapter in relation to the powers, duties and liabilities of a trustee of a common school district apply so far as practicable to a board of education of a union school district.

[New. Inserted to avoid repetition and to apply to union schools general provisions relating to the powers and liabilities of common schools. Con. School Law, tit. VIII, § 16, embodied in part some of the provisions in this section.]

(Page 78, § 16.)

§ 84. Power of meeting to vote taxes.-A district meeting in a union school district not conterminous with a city or village may authorize such acts and vote such taxes as shall be deemed expedient for making additions, alterations or improvements to or on the sites or structures belonging to the district, or for the purchase of other sites or structures, or for a change of sites, or for the erection of new buildings, or for buying apparatus or fixtures, or for other purposes. The designation of a site must be by a written resolution, containing a description thereof by metes and bounds.

[Con. School Law, tit. VIII, part of § 10, rewritten without intended change in substance. The remainder of § 10 is included in §§ 95, 116, 123 and 187 of revision.]

(Page 69, § 10.)

§ 85. Municipal authorities to raise school moneys.-The corporate authorities of a city or village conterminous with a union school district shall raise from time to time by tax sums necessary to defray the expenses of supporting the schools therein as may be required by the board of education. All sums so required shall be

set forth in a detailed statement in writing addressed to the corporate authorities by the board of education, giving the various purposes of anticipated expenditure and the amount necessary for each. Taxes shall also be raised for such other sums as may be set forth in a written statement by the board authorized by a district meeting for making additions, alterations or improvements to or on the site or structures belonging to the district, or for the purchase of other sites or structures, or for a change of sites, or for the erection of new buildings, or for buying apparatus or fixtures, or for other purposes.

[Con. School Law, tit. VIII, part of § 9, rewritten without intended change in substance.]

(Page 68, part of § 9.)

§ 86. Increase and reduction of board.-A board of education which has more than three or less than nine members may be reduced to three or increased to nine by a resolution adopted at an annual district meeting. If the number is increased, additional trustees shall be elected and classified as the meeting may determine. If the number is diminished the number thereafter authorized to be elected shall be so classified that onethird thereof as nearly as may be shall be elected each year. Such classification may be made by the district meeting by which the number is reduced, or by any other district meeting before trustees are elected. If the number is diminished an election shall not be held to fill the vacancies of the outgoing trustees until the number shall correspond to the number fixed by the meeting.

[Con. School Law, tit. VIII, § 31, rewritten and condensed without intended change in substance.]

(Page 82, § 31.)

§ 87. Member of board not to be interested in contracts.-A member of a board of education shall not be personally interested in any contract made by the board.

[Con. School Law, tit. VIII, part of § 18, unchanged in substance.]

(Page 78, § 18.)

§ 88. Moneys; how paid by the board of education.-In a district conterminous with a city or village all moneys apportioned to a union school from the income of the literature fund, or free school fund, or otherwise, shall be paid to the municipal treas urer, to the credit of the board of education, and he shall keep such moneys separate and distinct from any other fund. The treasurer shall give such additional security for the money so apportioned as the corporate authorities of the city or village shall require. Money shall not be drawn from funds credited to the board of education in a city or village, nor paid by the treasurer in any other union school district, except in pursuance of a resolution of the board of education, and on a draft drawn by the president, and countersigned by the clerk, payable to the order of the person entitled to receive the same; and such draft must show on its face the purpose or service for which the moneys are authorized to be paid by the board.

[Con. School Law, tit. VIII, § 24, rewritten and condensed with out intended change of substance.]

(Page 80, § 24.)

§ 89. Adoption of academy.-The board of education, when authorized by a district meeting, may, with the consent of the superintendent, the regents and the trustees of an existing academy adopt it as the academic department of the district. Thereupon the trustees of such academy by resolution to be attested by the

president and clerk of the board of education and filed in the office of the regents, shall declare their office vacant. Thereafter such academy shall be the academic department of the union school; and the board of education shall have the right to oc cupy, manage and control such academy, its site and appurtenances, for the purposes of an academic department, but not other. wise.

[Con. School Law, tit. VIII, § 27, rewritten and condensed with the following change. The provision in § 27 as to the lease of academies by the board is omitted.]

(Page 81, § 27.)

§ 90. Academy as academic department.-The board of educa tion of a union school district, with the approval of the regents and the superintendent, may adopt an academy as the academic department thereof, and contract for the instruction therein of pupils of academic grade residing in the district. The academy thereupon becomes the academic department of the union school, and the district is entitled to the same rights and privileges, is subject to the same duties, and the apportionment and distribution of state school money shall be made to it, as if an academic department had been established in such school.

[New.]

§ 91. Visitation of academic department.-An academic department in a union school is under the visitation of the regents, and is subject to the regulations made by them in regard to academies, as to its course of education and all matters pertaining thereto, except as to the buildings in which the school is conducted. In such a department the qualifications for the entrance of a pupil shall be as high as those established by the regents

for participation in the literature fund of an academy under

their supervision.

[Con. School Law, tit. VIII, § 26, rewritten without intended change of substance.]

(Page 81, § 26.)

§ 92. Limitation on dissolution.-A union school district shall not be dissolved within one year from the first day of July next fol. lowing its establishment. A district may be dissolved at any other time on the affirmative vote of two-thirds of all the qualified voters of the district, with the written approval of the commissioner. Such approval shall be by an order of the commissioner, filed in the office of the clerk of the town in which the principal schoolhouse of the district is located, and a duplicate copy of such order shall be delivered to the clerk of the board of education, who shall forthwith deliver to the superintendent copies of the call, notice, proceedings of the meeting and the order of the commissioner. A dissolution, if approved, shall take effect on the next succeeding thirtieth day of June. The question of a dissolution can be considered only at a special meeting. Such meeting shall be called by the board of education on the written request of fifteen qualified voters. If a proposition to dissolve a district be determined in the negative, or in the affirmative and is not approved by the commissioner, a like proposition shall not be again considered within three years from the first meeting.

[Con. School Law, tit. VIII, part of § 5 and §§ 32, 33 and part of § 40, rewritten and condensed with the following change: By present law, tit. VIII, § 5, when a district has been established it shall not be changed within one year from the following first Tuesday in August. This we have changed to the first of July,