provided in section six of chapter eighteen of the Revised Statutes, (§ 21 of this chap.) his property and person shall be taxed, and the taxes thereon shall be collected within and for the use of the district, to which he shall be set as aforesaid, in the same manner as said property and person would be taxable, and the taxes thereon collectable in the said district in the town wherein he resides, in case he had not been set to said other district in an adjoining town. Provided, that said property and person shall be taxable as aforesaid only in the district to which said person shall be set as aforesaid. (No. 34 of 1845.)

SECT. 23. When a school district shall be organized, it shall have all the powers of a corporation, for the purpose of maintaining a school in such district; and any man of the age of twenty-one years, who, at the time, shall reside, and be liable to pay taxes in such district, shall be a legal voter in the same. (Sec. 7 of R. S.) SECT. 24. The several school districts shall be authorized to take and hold any estate, real or personal, conveyed to them for the purpose of supporting schools in such districts, and may take care, dispose of, and appropriate the same for such purpose; and may commence and prosecute any action against any person for the non performance of any contract made with them, or for any damage done to their property, and may be sued for the non performance of any contract made by them. (Sec. 8 of R. S.)

SECT. 25. The officers of each school district shall be a moderator to preside in the meetings, a clerk, a collector of taxes, and a prudential committee, consisting of one or three voters in such district; all which officers may be chosen annually, at any legal meeting warned for that purpose, and shall hold their offices for one year, and until others shall be chosen. (Sec. 9 of R. S.)

SECT. 26. When from any cause, a vacancy shall occur in the offices of clerk, collector of taxes, or prudential committee of any school district in any town in this state, the selectmen shall supply such vacancy until a new election shall be made; and the officers so appointed shall have all the powers, and be subject to all the duties, requirements, and liabilities, as they would be, if chosen by such school district. (No. 37 of 1848.)

SECT. 27. It shall be the duty of the clerk to keep a fair record of all the votes and proceedings of the meetings; to certify the same when required; to ascertain and make a list, annually, of the children which may be in his district, on the first day of January, between the ages of four and eighteen, with the names of the heads of the families, and the number of children in each, and return the same to the town clerk in the month of January, (see $ 29) and also to return to the town clerk his certificate of the number of weeks, in which a school shall have been kept in such district, during the year preceding; and the town clerk shall make an entry or record of such returns. (Sec. 10 of R. S.)

SECT. 28. In the absence or disability of the clerk of any school district, it shall be the duty of the prudential committee of such district, to discharge the duties imposed on clerks of school districts, by section ten of chapter eighteen of the Revised Statutes, (§ 27 of

this chap.) (No. 6 of 1846, with the omission of so much as relates to the repealed act (No. 16) of 1843.)

SECT. 29. It shall be the duty of the district clerks of the several school districts in this state, to make the returns required in section ten of chapter eighteen of the Revised Statutes, (§ 27 of this chap.) between the fifteenth of February and the first day of March, instead of making them in the month of January, as required in said section. (Sec. 2 of No. 24 of 1847.)

SECT. 30. It shall be the duty of each district clerk, in making out the returns specified in said section ten, (§ 27 of this chap.) to annex to the names of the heads of families, the names of the children; to certify the number of weeks a school shall have been taught by male and female teachers, respectively, including any such school, up to the close of the school year, as may have been contracted for in good faith and is expected to be kept; the amount of wages paid to male and female teachers, respectively, including wages to the close of the school year as before specified; the cost of board for teachers during the year, estimated in like manner; and also the cost of fuel, furniture, and other incidental expenses of the school, not including interest on buildings, amount paid for sites, for repairing buildings, or for fencing and improving grounds appurtenant thereto—which return shall be as near as may be in the following form:

Heads of families.

A. B.

G. H.

Names of children.

C. B. H. B. R. B.
F. H. W. H.

No. of weeks school taught by male teachers,

No. by female teachers,

Amount of wages paid male teachers, (exclusive of board,)

Amount paid female teachers,

Cost of board for teachers, for year,

Cost of fuel, furniture and incidentals,

I certify the above to be true returns for district No. quired by law.

Attest,

(Sec. 3 of No. 24 of 1847.)

C. D., District Clerk.

SECT. 31. The school year, for all the purposes contemplated in this act, (§ 29 to 32) shall be taken as commencing on the first day of April in each year, and ending on the last day of March following. (Sec. 1 of No. 24 of 1847.)

SECT. 32. It shall be the duty of the town clerk of each town, annually, in the month of March or on the first day of April, to prepare an abstract of the returns of the several district clerks, and deliver the same to the town superintendent of schools when called for-which abstract shall be as near as may be in the following form:

The foregoing is a true statement of the statistics of the common schools in the town of as obtained by me from the returns of district clerks, made to me in February last, A. D. 18.

Attest, C. D., Town Clerk. (Sec. 6 of No. 24 of 1847, as amended by No. 14 of 1849.)

SECT. 33. It shall be the duty of the town clerk of each town, annually, in the month of April, to forward to the state superintendent of common schools, by mail or otherwise, the abstract of the returns of district clerks which he is required to prepare in accordance with the provisions of section six of an act relating to common schools, approved November 15, 1847, (§ 32 of this chap.) (Sec. 6 of No. 14 of 1849.)

SECT. 34. It shall be the duty of the prudential committee to keep each school house in their district in good order, at the expense of the district; and, in case there shall be no school house, to provide a suitable place for each school, at the expense of the district; to see that fuel and furniture, and all appendages and things necessary for the advantage of the school, be provided; to appoint and agree with a teacher to instruct the school, and remove him, when necessary; and adopt all requisite measures for the inspection, examination and regulation of the school, and for the improvement of the scholars in learning. (Sec. 11 of R. S.)

SECT. 35. The meetings of a school district may be appointed and notified by the clerk, on application to him in writing, by three or more legal voters of the district; and, in case of the absence or neglect of the clerk, one or more of the prudential committee may appoint and notify such meetings on such application; and the meetings shall be notified by posting up notices in one or more of the most public places in the district, specifying the time, place and object of the meeting, at least seven days before the time therein specified for the meeting. (Sec. 12 of R. S.)

SECT. 36. The annual meeting of a school district may be appointed and notified by the clerk of said district, without any application to him therefor by any of the voters of the district, and such annual meeting shall be notified in the manner provided by law for the notification of school district meetings. And in case of the absence or neglect of the clerk, one or more of the prudential committee may appoint and notify such annual meeting as aforesaid, without any application to him therefor by any of the voters of the district. (No. 40 of 1850.)

SECT. 37. The several school districts may, by vote in a legal meeting appointed and notified as required in the preceding section, ($35) raise money by a tax on the lists of the inhabitants of such districts, for the purpose of erecting or repairing a school house, or to purchase or hire a building to be used as a school house, and to purchase land for a school house to stand upon, and for the accommodation of the same, and to support a school in such district, as may be judged necessary or expedient. (Sec. 13 of R. S.)

SECT. 38. Each district may also determine in what place and in what part of the district the school house shall be located, and may choose a committee to superintend the building, repairing or

purchasing of such school house, for procuring the necessary furniture and utensils for the same; and if the voters in any district cannot agree upon the location of the school house, the selectmen of the same town, on application to them by the prudential committee, may fix upon the place for the school house in such district. (Sec. 14 of R. S.) SECT. 39.

When a tax shall be laid, or ordered by vote of any district, for the purposes mentioned in this chapter, all real estate shall be taxed in the district, in which it is situated. (Sec. 15 of R. S.)

SECT. 40. At any meeting of any school district, legally warned, the legal voters in such district may instruct the prudential committee to omit, in making up the tax bill for the support of schools, the names of such persons as are not able to pay their proportion of such tax; two-thirds of the voters present assenting thereto. (No. 6 of 1844.)

SECT. 41. The prudential committee shall, so soon after the vote of the district for that purpose, as the circumstances of the case may require, assess a tax for the amount voted to be raised on the lists of the inhabitants of such district, and on lands in such district belonging to persons living out of it, and make out a rate bill of the same; and any justice of the same county shall, on application for that purpose, make out a warrant in due form of law, directed to the collector of such district, authorizing and requiring him to levy and collect such tax, within the time limited therein, and pay the same to the prudential committee of such district. (Sec. 16 of R. S.)

SECT. 42. When such tax bill and warrant shall be delivered to the collector, it shall be his duty to proceed in levying and collecting such tax in the same manner, and he shall have the same power, as provided by law for collectors in collecting town taxes; and shall, within the time limited, collect and pay the same to the prudential committee, to be applied to the purposes authorized by the vote of the district. (Sec. 17 of R. S.)

SECT. 43. Any district, by vote at a legal meeting, warned as provided in this chapter, shall have power, for the purpose of supporting its school, to raise money by subscription, or by apportioning the same to the scholars who shall attend the school, or otherwise; but shall not assess a tax on account of any scholar, who shall not attend the school in such district; and the prudential committee shall make out a tax bill of such subscriptions or assessments, and shall deliver the same, with a warrant, as provided in the preceding section, to the collector, who shall have the same power, and shall proceed in levying, collecting and paying the same, and be accountable, and the money, when collected, shall be appropriated, in the same manner as provided where the tax is assessed on the lists. (Sec. 18 of R. S.)

SECT: 44. All moneys raised by school districts, for the payment of teachers' wages, shall be raised upon the grand list; and moneys raised by a tax upon the scholars who attend school shall be appropriated only to defray the expenses of fuel and teachers' board. (No. 44 of 1850.)

SECT. 45. The prudential committee of any school district shall have the same authority to enforce the collection and payment of the money voted and assessed by such district, as the treasurer of the town, by law has, for enforcing the payment and collection of (Sec. 19 of R. S.)

town taxes.

SECT. 46. The legal voters in any district, at a legal meeting warned for that purpose, may remit or make abatement on any tax bill made out for the collection of taxes assessed by such district, to an amount not exceeding five per cent. of the same, two-thirds of the voters, present at such meeting, agreeing thereto. (Sec. 20 of R. S.)

SECT. 47. When any school district shall have been formed from territory or inhabitants belonging to two or more towns, the inhabitants of such district, belonging to either town, may, if there shall be sufficient cause for it, procure their union with the other towns to be dissolved; and, for that purpose, three or more of the legal voters may make application to a judge of the county court of the same county, whose duty it shall be to appoint three justices of the same county, not inhabitants of either town in interest, to inquire into the circumstances of the case. (Sec. 21 of R. S.)

SECT. 48. If, in the opinion of such justices, it shall be expedient to dissolve such district, they shall order the same to be dissolved, and shall make a certificate thereof and leave the same in the office of the town clerk of each town interested, to be recorded; and shall thereupon order a distribution of the property belonging to such district, to the inhabitants residing in the several towns, and may order the payment of damages by, or to, the inhabitants of either town, as shall be just and equitable. (Sec. 22 of R. S.)

SECT. 49. The inhabitants of each town, after the separation, shall be deemed a legal school district, and may become organized in the manner provided for the organization of other districts, and may, by vote, assume a corporate name, unless a corporate name shall otherwise have been given to it, and may receive, recover and take care of such damages or property, as may be awarded to it by the justices. (Sec. 23 of R. S.)

SECT. 50. Any school district, heretofore organized according to law, shall remain a legal school district, subject to the provisions of this chapter; and the officers, which shall have been appointed, shall have the same power, perform the same duties, and be subject to the same liabilities, as are provided in this chapter (Sec. 24 of R. S.)

SECT. 51. If any district clerk shall wilfully neglect to make any return of the number of scholars in his district, as is required in this chapter, or shall, knowingly or wilfully, make a false return, he shall forfeit and pay to the treasurer of the town, for the use of schools in such town, a sum equal to the amount of moneys, which his district would be entitled to draw from the treasury of the town, during the year in which the offence shall be committed, to be recovered in an action in the name of the town, with costs. (Sec. 25 of R. S.) SECT. 52. If any district clerk or prudential committee, whose duty it shall be to warn a meeting of any school district, for the