ACADEMY.

See Children, 6.

ACCOUNTS.

147

2. An alien cannot be an officer
of a school district,
ALTERATIONS IN SCHOOL
DISTRICTS.

1. If trustees consent verbally to
an alteration in their school
district, the proceedings will
not be set aside for want of a
written assent,.....
2. Persons attached to a school dis-
trict without the consent of
the trustees, may within three
months be set off again with-
out the consent of such trus-
tees,
3. Alterations ought not to be made
in school districts when the
effect is to give particular in-
dividuals unjust advantages in
respect to others,

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.......

4. Improper alterations in school
districts will not be sanctioned
for the purpose of quieting
controversies,..

5. An inhabitant being set off from
a school district, it is an alter-
ed district, and the site of the

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75

104

7. Persons set off from a school
district without the consent of
the trustees, do not cease to
belong to it until three months
after notice in writing to the
trustees,
212
8. If an alteration is made in a
school district, without the
consent of the trustees, and
without the knowledge of the
parties interested, an appeal
to the Superintendent will be
allowed after three months,.. 227
9. If a school district is altered,
the site of the school-house
may be changed by a majority
of votes, and without the con-
sent of the commissioners of
272
common schools,

10. An alteration in a school dis-
trict, made without evidence
of the consent of the trus-
tees, or notice to them, will
be held not valid, if all con-
cerned have for five years act-
ed as though it had not been
made,....
11. Trustees of school districts
should not give a general con-
sent before hand to alterations
to be made in their school dis-
tricts, but such consent should
be limited to specific altera-
tions,

....

See Commissioners of Common
Schools, 8.

Joint School Districts, 1,

2, 3.

Notice, 3, 6, 16, 19.

Records, 2, 5.

275

320

See School District, 6, 9, 13, 14.
Superintendent, 6.

ANNUAL TOWN MEETING.
See Commissioners of Common
Schools, 20.

ANNUAL REPORTS OF TRUS
TEES.

9

1. If the annual report of the trus
tees of a school district is
furnished before the public
moneys are apportioned by the
commissioners, it is in time,
2. The annual report of school dis-
tricts should be made out by
the 1st of March, ..... 155
3. If trustees neglect, without
good cause, to make their an-
nual report before the appor-
tionment of the school mo-
neys, they are without reme-
dy,.
4. If the annual report of a school
district includes part of two
years, it is a false report,.... 213
5. If the annual report of a school

district is lost, and the district
does not receive the public
money, application must be
made to the Superintendent
of Common Schools, to have
the deficiency supplied out of
the moneys to be distributed

the next year,·
6. If the annual report of a school
district is received by the com-
missioners before the public
moneys are distributed, it is
in time, and the district should
be included in the apportion-
ment,.
7. If the annual report of a school
district is signed by to trus-
tees, the commissioners can
look no further, and the dis-
trict must receive its share of
the public money if the report
is otherwise sufficient,

See Children, 6, 10.

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Errors and Omissions, 3, 5.
Indian Children.
Poor-Houses, 1.

Public or School Moneys, 1,
11.

Trustees of School Districts,
22.

ANNUAL MEETINGS.
1. If an annual meeting in a school
district is neglected, the trus-
tees hold over until the next
annual meeting, and until oth-

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ers shall be elected in their
places,
2. If an annual meeting is held at
the time and place appointed
at the annual meeting of the
preceding year, it is valid, al-
though the clerk of the district
may have neglected to give
the notice required by law,.. 70
3. If the time for the annual meet-
ing is unknown, application
should be made to the Super-
intendent to fix a day for hold-
ing it,....

4. If the annual meeting is void,
the persons in office hold over;
but the commissioners of com-
mon schools cannot, in such a
case, call a meeting or appoint
officers,

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114

129

129

296

327

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9. If the annual meeting in a school
district is neglected, the dis-
trict officers hold over until the
next annual meeting,..
10. If an annual meeting is regu-
larly called and attended by
only four persons, who, with-
out organizing, agree to meet
again in a week, the second
meeting is not valid,
11. If an annual meeting is regu-
larly called and attended by
four persons, who organize,
and without transacting any
other business adjourn for a
week, the proceedings are va-
lid, and the annual election
may be held at the adjourned
meeting,.

12. Annual meetings need not be
precisely one year apart to a
day,

See Notice, 17.

Taxation and Taxes, 20.

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241

271

271

289

APPARATUS.

See Taxation and Taxes, 54.
APPEALS.

1. An appeal to the Superinten.
dent will not be entertained
when the point at issue has
been settled by an adjudica-
tion upon the same case in a
court of competent jurisdic-
tion,

....

2. Appeals must be made by per-
sons aggrieved,
3. The regulation of the Superin-
tendent requiring an appeal to
be made within thirty days af
ter the proceeding complain.
ed of, is not to be enforced
against an aggrieved party hav-
no knowledge of such proceed-
ing,
4. If within thirty days after pro-
ceedings complained of, notice
of appeal is served and the pa-
pers transmitted to the Super-
intendent, it is a sufficient
compliance with the regula-
tion, and ten days will be al-
lowed to the respondents to
answer, after the service of
such notice,

See Alterations in School Dis-

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343

96

administer an oath when a re-
duction is claimed...........
2. If the assessment of a tax is de-
layed by an appeal, the time
is not to be computed as part
of the month within which the
tax list must be made out,... 304
See Assessment Roll of Town.
Notice, 4, 5.

Taxation and Taxes.

ASSESSMENT ROLL OF TOWN.
1. The assessment roll kept by the
town clerk is the one to be
followed in assessing taxes,.. 154
2. If an individual acquires or parts
with property after the last as-
sessment roll of the town is
made out, the roll must not be
followed in making out a tax

235

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292

87

1. If the collector refuses to give a
bond, his office becomes va-
cated, and the trustees may
make a new appointment,... 19
2. Collectors are entitled to five
per cent on all sums actually
collected and paid over by
them; but not on sums paid
to teachers for tuition,
3. Collectors are allowed the usual
fees of distress and sale, in
addition to five cents on each
dollar, when they take and sell
the property of delinquents,.. 111
4. Any goods and chattels lawful-

ly in possession of a person as-
sessed to pay a tax, may be
taken by the collector of a
school district,.

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212

5. A collector has thirty days from
the delivery of a tax list and
warrant to collect a tax,...
6. If a collector takes and sells pro-
perty to pay a tax, and the
owner refuses to receive the
excess, the collector must re-
tain the amount in his hands, 217
7. A collector is not bound to take

any particular article of pro-
perty at the request of the
owner; but if he does so it
will be an answer to the charge
of taking an excessive distress, 218
8. Trustees may require a bond of
the collector whenever a war-
rant is delivered to him for
collection,...

9. If the trustees do not require a
bond of the collector he may
execute a warrant without
giving one,

2. Commissioners cannot be com-
pelled to pay interest on mo-
neys withheld from school dis-
tricts in the discharge of their
duties.......

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