The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1839-05-07

slae,t that the meeting iscalled 'to organize the
district by choosing moderator and cierk," and
u should state other business to be transacted.
The statute says choosing these two officers.
'the district shall be deemed and holden be Ie.
gally organized.'s sUnderthe act Of 1897 as we'll
as under the act of 1897, the seIectmen warn
the meeting only for The purpose of organizing the
district; III their warning goes further, and calls
on the legal voters to transact other 6usineSs not
necessary for the organization Of the district, we
may De sure, that the selecmen have exceeded their
power IN posting up such n warning and if this
oner business De transacted al the meeting it will
be done without legul w,rnng, and NOT binding
upon tho Inhabitants of the district After the dis
riot is organized and while i.Ietains its oroanza
on all its meetings 10 transact business must be
warned BY their clerk, or prudential committee.
or of them, and never by the selectmen Blu,
will consider this further . The act of 1927.
where it says, every organized district al any le.
! gal meeting warned for that purpose, shall have
power 10 choose a moderator TO govern said meet.
ing collector OF rates /; a district clerk" &c As
! above quoted means that the district, when tho
warning is posted up, is an organized district If
! so, then the warning must be made by the district
clerk, and not by the selectmen, choose the dis
rict officers. AS the selectmen have power to
warn a meeting of the legal voters an unorgan.
lied district TO organize it is commended by. some,
"that the selectmen may insert in their warning
for such meeting other business to be done thereat,
after the district is organized, and this will be
sufficient warning for transacling this other bust
ness" Is not this mistaken view of the law -
Suppose the selectmen post up their warning for
the legal voters of an unorganized district to NEE,
at a certain time and place transact the follow.
ing business s.f a,. Na.1.
To organize the district by choosing moder.
ator, and clerk"
II. "When suid district is organized to choose
moderat Il collector of rates a district clerk
aud a prudential committee"
Is this second article proper TO be inserted in a
warning by the select men for meeting to organ.
re an unorganzeed school district If the sec.
ond article be legally in its place, then it would be
legal standing alone without the first article and
il this be true, then the electmen warn meet.
ing OF the Legal voters OF an organized district to
choose all their district officers. But the law con.
ers no such power upon the selectmen and the
reason why the law gives them the power to warn
n meeting in an unorganized district is, because
such district has no officer of its own to warn its
first meeting. But evrry organized district has of
6cers oil its own, whose duty it is to warn all its
meetings Hence conclude, that the second arti.
Gle could not be legally acted upon at a meeting
legally warned for the purpose mentioned in the
first article if acted upon, and all the district
officers chosen. they chosen without a suf.
hcont warming or the meeting Again. by the
two articles being united in the warning, the legal
voters of an unorganized district are called on by
the selectmen to choose two moderators, and two
clerks at the same meeting one moderate and
one clerk 10 organize the district and then anoh-
er moderator and clerk aft er the district sis organic
ed The absurdity Of such proceeding is enough
to satisfy any person; that this could not be the in.
tention of the legislature in passing the 9TH sec of
the act aforesaid
In a former communication I mentioned, that
school district No in ---- had two sets of dis.
rint officers both illegally chosen-one set chosen
a; a meeting on the 4h day of March 1889 and
The other set chosen the 9th day Eof the same
month. And have now 20 state, shat the friends
Of the I'd meeting. that they might legalize the
choice of their officers applied the selectmen
warn a third meeting of the legal voters of said
district 10 choose moderator, clerk and other dis
rict officers, and to transact some other business
Wherenpon the selectmen warned said meeting to
be holden on the 22d day of April 1880. In the
warming there was mention made that the meet
ng was TO organize the district; but from the cir.
that the warning was signed by two
II the selectmen, and one of them presided
ne meeting unt'l moderator and clerk were cho5-
m, it was natural TO suppose, that object Of the
meeting was to organize The district anew, which
vas legally organized forty years ago! After the
moderator, and clerk chosen, the moderator
ook the chair and the friends of the second meet
ng proceeded, and re elected all the district Off
'ers, who chosen at the second meeting
This proceeding may conform to the statute of
1877 which is repeatedly but it does not conform at
Ill to the act of 1897, which is in Force fear that
hese proceedings have sunk the district so deep in
he mud, that it will require more than the strength
Samson to left it out asrls.4 -a,it i.e19 .4
A FRIEND OF COMMON SCHOOLS.
April 25, 1889. tt'"t
The Boundary.-Tho NJ. Y@Evening Post has
hunted up the following verses taken from DR..
Franklin's Almanac, published VI 1884, year
,fter the conclusion of the Treaty Of Peace, de-
cribing the position of the Northeastern Boundary
Is it understood at that time. 1t will BIO