The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1827-03-28

Attest,
-Schooi Committee
Sec. 10. Be At further enacted, That the
inhabitants of the several school districts.
within any town which hath already. or
which shall hereafter define the limits of
such districts, qualified to vote i'll town af-
fairs, be, and they hereby are empowered,
at any meeting called in the manner here
matter provided, to raise money for erect
ing or repairing school house in their re-
spectlve districts, or to purchase or hire
any house or building, to he used as
school house, and also to purchase land for
a schoo. house to stand upon, and for the
accommodation Of the same; to determine
in Whatpart of said district such school
house slall stand; to choose a Committee
to supenntond the building, repairing, or
purchasing of such school house; to choose
a clerk, who shall be sworn faithfully to
discharge the duties Of his Office, and
whose dity it shall be to make fair rec
ord of Ill votes passed at any meeting of
said district, and to certify the same when
required, and shall hold such Office until
another person shall be chosen and sworn
IN his room; also to raise money at any
such meeting to procure necessary uten-
sis foItheir respective school houses to
be cetlhed as aforesaid, and assessed in
mannsr as is hereinafter provided. Pro
0lded,h0igeger, that any town may carry in
to effect the provisions of this section, in
their corporate capacity, and at the expense
OF thetOWG, and may, at any legal meeting.
RAISE and assess taxes, and adopt all neces-
sary and proper measures for providing
schoo houses and sites thereof, for the sew
eral school districts in such town.
.SRQ.rll. Be 1t further enacted, That,
] for the purposes aforesaid, every person
! shall be taxed m tfe-SI;etPiet-in which he
lives for all the estate lie 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 inwhich
it is included and all lands, where the
owner thereof lives without the town, shall
be taxed in such district as the assessors,
having regard to the local situation there
of, shall appoint; and it shall be the duty
of the assessors, before they assess a tax
for any district, to determine in which dis
trlct such lands respectively shall be taxed,
and to certify IN writing their determine
tion to the clerk of the towns, who shall
record the same; and such land, while
owned by any person residing without the
limits of the town, shall be taxed in such
districts until the town shall be Distracted
anew. Provided, ho,CeUer, that all the lands,
within any town owned by the same person
not living therein, shall be taxed in one
and the same district; and the assessors
shall assess in the same manner as town
taxes are assessed, on the polls and estates
of the inhabitants comprising any school
districts defined as aforesaid, and on lands
in said town belonging to persons living
out of the same, which the assessors shall
have directed to be taxed in such district,
all monies voted to be raised by the inhab-
itants Of such district for the purposes a
! foresaid, in thirty days after the clerk of
! the district shall certify to said assessors
| the sum voted by the district to he raised
as aforesaid; and it shall be the duty OF
said assessors to make. a warrant in due
! form of law, directed to one of the collec-
tors Of the town to which such district, be-
longs, requiring and empowering said col
lector to levy and collect the tax so assess
ell, and to pay the same within a time to
! be limited in said warrant, to the treasurer
| of the town, to whom a certificate of the
assessment shall be made by the assessors,
and the money, so collected and paid, shall
be at the disposal of the Committee of the
district, to be by them applied to the build
| ing or repairing of q school house, or to
| the purchase of house or building to be
used as a school house, or to the purchase
of land for the site of a school house, as
herein provided for, in the district to which
such Committee shall belong and such
collector, in collecting such tax, shall have
the same powers, and lie holden to proceed
in the same manner, as is by law provided
in collecting town taxes.
SEC. l2. BE Il further enacted, That
the treasurer of any town to whom certiti-
cate OF the assessment of district tax shall
be transmitted as aforesaid, shall have the
same authority to enforce the collection
and payment of the money so assessed and
certified, as if the same had been voted to
be raised by the town for the towns use !;
and the treasurer and collector shall be
paid the same commissions on the money
collected and paid for the use of school
district aforesaid; and the assessors for
assessing said tax shall be allowed by the
district the same sum for each and every
day while employed in assessing the same,
as is allowed and paid by the town for sim
liar purposes.
SEC. ID. BE It further enacted, That
the assessors of the several towns and dis
tricts in this Commonwealth be, and they
are hereby vested with the same powers to
remit sums of money assessed on the in