1 CHAP. XX. OF THE LAWS RELATING TO SCHOOL SECTION I. OF THE DIVISION OF TOWNS INTO SCHOOL DISTRICTS. The statute of July 6, 1827, entitled " an act empowering school districts to build and repair school houses," section 1, enacts, "that the several towns and places within this state be, and they hereby are, respectively empowered, at any legal meeting for that purpose, to divide into school districts, and to define the limits thereof, and the same from time to time to alter in such manner as shall be thought fit and convenient; and a record of such division or alteration, shall be made in the clerk's office of such town, or place, within three months after any such division or alteration shall have been made'; and no person shall have a right to send to, or receive any benefit from, any school in a district in which he is not a resident, without the consent of such district." SECTION II. OF THE MANNER OF CALLING MEETINGS OF SCHOOL DISTRICTS. The statute of July 6, 1827, entitled "an act empowering school districts to build and repair school houses," sec. 5, enacts," that it shall be the duty of the selectmen of the several towns and places, divided into school districts as aforesaid, upon application made to them in writing, by three or more freeholders, resident within any school district in their respective towns, to issue their warrant, directed to any one of the persons making such application, requiring him to warn the inhabitants of such district, qualified to vote in town affairs, to meet at such time and place in the same district, as the selectmen shall in their warrant appoint; and the said warning shall be, by notifying personally every person in the district, qualified to vote in town affairs, or by leaving at their usual places of abode a notification in writing, expressing therein the time, place and purpose of the meeting, ten days, at least, before the time appointed for holding the same; or, notice of said meeting may be given by posting on the door of the school house, and in at least two other public places in such district, a copy of said warrant, certified by the person to whom it may have been directed, at least fifteen days prior thereto; and any vote to raise money, passed by a majority of the inhabitants of any school district present at any district meeting holden pursuant to this act, shall be obligatory on the inhabitants of said district, to be assessed, levied and collected in the manner prescribed in this act." FORM NO. I. Form of an application to selectmen to call a meeting in a school district. To the selectmen of the town of C. GENTLEMEN: The undersigned, being freeholders and residents in school district No. 1. in the said town of C. respectfully request you, to issue a warrant to call a meeting of the said district as soon as may be, to act on the following articles : [Here enumerate the purposes.] A. B. C. D. E. F. C. December 27, 1825. FORM NO. II. Form of a warrant to call a meeting of a school district. STATE OF NEW-HAMPSHIRE. Rockingham, ss. To A. B. of C. in said county. L.. S. GREETING. You are hereby required in the name of the state of New-Hampshire, to notify and warn the inhabitants of said town of C. qualified to vote in town affairs and resident in school district No. 1, in said town, to meet at the school house in said district, on the A. D. 1826, at four of the clock in the afternoon, to act on the following subjects: day of [Here enumerate the purposes of the meeting.] And you are to serve this warrant by notifying personally every resident in said district qualified as aforesaid, or by leaving at their usual places of abode a notification in writing expressing the time and place of said meeting, fourteen-days prior to the said day of A. D. 1826. (Or, And you are to serve ten this warrant by posting up on the door of the school house and in two or more of the most public places in said district fourteen days prior to the said day fifteen of A. D. 1826, an attested copy of this warrant.) Hereof fail not, and make a return of this warrant, with your doings thereon, at the time and place above mentioned. Given under our hands and seal this twenty-seventh day of December, in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and twenty-five. G. H. I. K. Selectmen L. M. of C. FORM NO. III. Form of the return of the warrant. Rockingham, ss. C. January 17, 1826. PURSUANT to the within warrant, I have notified and warned all the inhabitants of the town of C. qualified to vote in town affairs, and resident in school district No. 1, to meet at the time and place within mentioned, by leaving at the usual place of abode of each a written notification, expressing the time and place of said meeting. A. B. FORM NO. IV. Form of the record of the doings of a meeting in a school district. Ar a legal meeting of the inhabitants of the town of C. qualified to vote in town affairs, and resident in school district No.1, in said town, holden at the school house in said district on the seventeenth day of January, A. D. 1826, A. B. was chosen to preside in said meeting, See to toso Voted, to raise the sum of two hundred dollars, to build a new school house in said district. SECTION III. OF THE POWERS OF SCHOOL DISTRICTS AND THE METHOD OF ASAND COLLECTING MONEY VOTED TO BE RAISED BY A SESSING SCHOOL LISTRICT. 66 The statute of July 6, 1827, entitled an act empowering school districts to build and repair school houses," sec. 2, enacts, "that the inhabitants of the several school districts, whose limits are now established, or shall be defined as aforesaid, qualified to vote in town affairs, be, and they hereby are empowered, at any meeting called in the manner hereinafter prescribed, to raise money for the purpose of erecting, repairing, or purchasing a school house, and other buildings connected therewith in their respective districts, and of necessary utensils for the same; to determine in what part of the district to erect said school house, and other necessary buildings; to choose a committee to superintend the building, and repairing of said school house, and other necessary buildings, or for purchasing the same; and to choose a clerk, who shall be sworn to the faithful discharge of the duties of his office, whose duty it shall be, to make a fair record of all the votes passed at any meeting of the district, and to certify the same when required; and the money, raised as aforesaid, shall be assessed and collected in the manner hereinafter provided." "That for the purpose aforesaid, every person shall be taxed in the district in which he lives, for all the estate he holds in the town,being under his own actual improvement, and all other of his real estate in the same town, shall be taxed in the district in which it is included; and all real estate, when the owner thereof lives without the town, shall be taxed in such district or districts, as the selectmen, having regard to the local situation thereof, shall determine; and it shall be the duty of the selectmen, before they assess a tax for any district, to determine in which district such real estate respectively shall be taxed, and to certify in writing their determination to the clerk of the town, who shall record the same; |