The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1839-04-09
ron TIE cALRDoNIAN.
SCHOOL DISTRICTS.

sebool meeting in such district, the said select
men shall notify the same, by posting ahotihcailon
in writing for such meeting, in one or more OF The
most public places in said District therein specify
ing The business TO be done, and the tme ana place
Of holding said meeting, which notification shall be
posted up, at least days before the ihoreln
| specified time. And il shall be The daty Of said
! seleci,nen some OF them, Ia preside at such
meeting, until n n,odera and clerk are chosen,
when said district shall be deemed and holden to
be legally organized and every organized district,
at any legal cetng warned for that purpose, shall
have power TO choose moderator to govern SAID
meeting a collector of rates district clerk and
| It shall he The duty of said clerk make n fair
record Of all votes passed nj any meeting Of said dis
| trict. "-"And anv clerk of any school district,
ieqaiiy chosen Aforesaid, shall have the
power of warning school meetng upon appica-
! lion in rriting OF three OF more legal voters in
such school district, as is herein before given to
the selectmen.'
| What is legal meeting of the legal voters ola
school district? After being organized, there must
be district clerk legally chosen and if he would
warn meeting OF The legal voters of the district,
there must be previous application to him q" 'or't-
ing by three, or more of said voters, requesting
him TO warn said meeting and in The application
the business to be done at the meeting should be
named. Afterireceiving such application, and not
before, the clerk has power to warn the NEE citing,
In drafting the warning the clerk should STATE said
business mentioned in the application, And the
warning should be posted up by the clerk in one
or more of the public places in the district at
least seven days before the therein specified time
TO make the days the day of the meet
ing is not to be counted one of them but the
day of posting mp may be counted as one OF the
seven. Soon after the meeting the clerk should
make record of all the proceedings; that is, of
the application to him for the meeting; the warn
ing and when and where II was posted up; the
holding of the meeting, and all the business that
was transacted tbereat. Such n record would show
legal meeting, if the clerk legally elected be-
fore he warned it, To ascertain this fact he record
Of the meeting at which he was chosen should be
examined ifthc record shows it was legal meet
ing then he was legally choSen but if the record
shows no such thing then we have not evidence
that he legally chosen, and could legally warn
| a subsequent meeting. These remarks are made
for the benefit ofschool districts in general and
particularly for the benefit OF school District No.
in *""#"#. does not appear by the records ofthis
school District, that for years past, there has
been single meeting warned by the clerk upon
previous application TN ,oritings Of three
legal voters in said school District that any
warning in writing for any meeting of the legal vo-
ters OF said school District has ever been posted UP
in one, or of the most public places in said
District for any number of days whatever before
the meeting. These such defects TN the record,
THAT il is impossible TO decide that the meetings of
this school District have, from year to year, been
legally warned that the meetings have been
u IegaAy holden. In some Of the warnings there
have been only five days between tho date Of the
warning and the time specified for holding tbs
/ meeting. We cannot suppose that these warnings
were posted up at least seven days as the law re-
: required. AT some of these meetings district
clerk prudential committee, and collector of rates
III .I,n haa
:, warned subsequent meetings which must be illegal,
because the clerk was not legally chosen. On
y parot application of three legal of said Dis
i trct to the clerk to warn meeting Of the legal vo-
: ,ers of said District TO chose officers, the clerk
d made his warning dated 25th Of February 1889 to
y warn meeting on the 4th of MalrlI then next -
II and the Goth of said February the clerk posted
up This warning at of the most public places in
: said District. This wrong, because the clerk
had po,oer to warn The meeting unless the appli-
cation for the same IN soriting. Moreover
there were only si1 days notice including the day
> of posting before the time specified in the warning
for the meeting. Notwithstanding these defects,
the meeting was holden, and district clerk pru-
dental committee, and collector of rates were eho-
SEN Ii is obvious, that of these officers were
legally chosen, because the meeting illegally
] learned. After the meeting there applIca-
ton TO the clerk, who was WegdHy chosen on SAID
4h of March, to warn another meeting to be hold
en- on the 9th of said March choose officers Of
said District, and il was warned accordingly For
this meeting there was application in ,cr,ting,
: and the warning was posted up for more than sew
en- days; the law satisfied as to the applica-
: ton and posting up the warning. But in this case,
there is this difficulty the clerk not legally
chosen the first meeting therefore he could not
{ legally warn the second meeting, any than a
: private individual. Sill the meeting was holden,
and other men were chosen to be clerk prudential
committee, and collector Of rites So we see that
school District No in ****t* have had two Illegal
meetings in March 1885, and have appointed two
sets of officers both illegally chosen, and hold
their Offices for the ensuing year, aud until others