Litchfield enquirer., 1839-07-11

na m ck disr;cs o parta ofdstEiclR or accordinr a the amount of attendance for period ct six months schooling in such districts er parls ol disSis s1all bear the whole amount of attendance ID a she dls tricts for the same period.
 Sect. IS. Whenever the expense ofkeeping com mon school by teacher or teacher! duly quaI!ncd, shall exceed tho amount Of all monies appropriated by law to defray the expense of such school. the com mittee in such district iOr the time being, may exam inc, adjust, and allow all bills of expensa incurred Tor the support of said school and assess the same upon the parents guardians, and masters of such children as attend the same, according to the number and time sent by each. any school district arising from repairs of school house or its appendages books, costs damages any other source shall not exceed the sum Ot twenty dollars m one year. the may be included in the above tax
 Sect. i7. Any school district, in lawful meeting warned for this purpose, hereby authorized to lay tax, not exceeding thirty dollars the hrst year, or ten dollars any subsequent year, on the district. tor the purposes of establishing and maintaining Common School Library and apparatus for the use ot the ch dren of such district under such rules and regulations as said district may adopt; and any sum of money thus raised. sha be assessed and collected in the same manner as other district taxes.
 Sect 18 Any two or more aC ming school dlstncts may associate together and form n1lCn % h, r ,be benefit of the older and more advanced cnnren ot such associated districts, if the inhabitants ot each of such districts. shall at legal meetings called tor that purpose, agree to form such union by vote oi two thirds of the legal voters. present.
 Sect l9 Any union district thus formed shal! have the corporate powers of school districts and snalI hold it's first meeting such notice, and at such tune and place as may be agreed upon by the associated districts respectively by vote ot tue same at the | time of forming the union.
 shall be held at such time and place, and upon such notice as the district may at its first meeting prescribe -and notice of all special or adjourned meetings shall D? given as provided ior in the case oi scno0s oS-
 Sect 2l The legal voters of such union district shall have power to designate, and purchase or ease to build hire, or purchase building tor such school house, and to keep in repair and furnish the same with fue furniture and other necessary articles tor the use of said schooand to assess and collect tax for the above purpose in the same manner as is pre- scrbed by law for other school districts-and in case the district shall not be able unanimously to agree on the location of the union school house, the school soc ety committee shall on application determine the same. g34
 Sect g. The committees of the respective districts forming the union district, shall constitute the school committee of said district, with power to appoint their clerk, treasurer, and colectOr-and said officers shall have all the poers and discharge all the duties in reference 10 such district, as the same officers have in case of school districts
 Sect 23 The committee aforesaid shall also deter mine the ages and qualifications of the children o the sc M "o may he uen mo books and discipline of the school subject to the ap probation of the visitors the school society in which said union district may be located, and to any votes PSSS0N VI trct.
 Sect 24 Such union school shall receive such pro portion o all money accrung to the use ot each of the associated districts the children between the ages ot four and sixteen attending the union school from each Of said districts bear to the number attending the district schools in each-and the expense of ss. taining the school beyond the amount thus received shall be borne by the union district, in such manner as the legal voters of the same shall prescribe and tax for this purpose shall be assessed and col lected n the same manner as Tn the case of any other schoOl district
 Sect 25. The visitors or overseers of schools shall have the same power and perform the same duties in relation to such union schools, as are prescribed to, them in relation to other district schools.
 Sect 26. No child shall be excluded from any school supported m all or in part ot any money appropriated or raised by law tor this purpose m the dlstrct to which such child belongs on account ot the inability o the parent guardian, or master of the same to pay his or her tax assessment for any school purpose whatever and the school committee of such district and the selectmen, majority of the eane, of the town towns in which such district shall be lOcafed shall constitute Board with power to abate the taxes assessments of such persons as are unable to pay the same in all or in part, and said seiectmen shall draw order for the amount of such abaements upon the treasurer of tho town in which such persons reside, in favor of said district. society and school districts, shall hold their respective offices until the annual meeting of such society and district next following the time of their appointment, and until others shall be duly elected in their places
 Sect. 2S In case any district shall fail or neglect to appoint any all of the officers authorized and di rected to be appointed by this Act at the annual
 he ss S ss e any the committee of the school society in which such dis tct may be located, to make such appointment, and
 o src s@d ode the name or names of such officers so appointed, with the district clerk.
 Sect. %. The Governor is hereby authorized to fill any vacancy in the Board of Commissioners of Com mon Schools occasoned by death, resignation or oth- erwise.
 Sect. 30. An acts or parts of acts relating to school societies or schools inconsistent with the provisions of this act, are hereby repealed.
 VIM. w. ELLSWORTH. An Act in addition to an act for the regulation of
 School Societies, and for the support of Schools"
 Be it enacted by the Senate and House cf RepreseE f1ttUes sn General Assembly c0nvened, That whenever the committee and clerk of any school district shall omit to return to the committee of the school society, the enumeration of children in their respective dis the duty of one of the committee of such school soci ety to make such enumeraton before the 18th day of September following, and lodge the same with the comprollers, shall indorse certificate thereof ac- cording to the following form, viz:
 Whereas no return of the number of children be- ed from the committee or clerk of the school dis trct m said society, therefore of the commit tee ot sad school society, have enumerated said ch dren and do hnd that on the lst Monday of August A. R. there were residing, within said district and belonging thereto, the number of persons between the ages aforesaid, none of which are con l tained in the within return,
 A. B. school society committee" | Sworn 10 this day of A. DIS be. fore me, c. D. justice of the peace.
 | And tor making such enumeration, said committee shall be entitled to receive five cents for each child ao enumerated to be paid from the next dividend belong
 ing to said school district, which may thereafter Dc received from the town depositc fund. And the emu. meration and return made, shall be eeciual to aintens, as 1t made in the form heretofore prescnb ed by law. Approved, June 5. 1899. | VIM. w. ELLSWORTH
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