Litchfield enquirer., 1872-09-26


 ucatia may call for. The secretary of the q of school visitors, and all other .seh ffcers, shall preserve with care all s and documents which may be of per- lhent value pertaining to schools, and which come into their hands by vir. .tue of their offices, and shall transmit the same to their successors.
 : Sec. 45. The secretary and other acting school visitors shall be paid from the town treasury, for the time actually employed in the performance of their duty, three dollars each per day, and in like propor- tion for parts of days.
 CHAPTER VI.
 Of school districts.
 Sec 46. Each town shall have power except as is hereinafter provided, to form, unite, alter and dissolve school districts and parts of school districts within its limits; and any two or more towns may form school districts of adjoining portions of their respective towns; but no new dis triet shall be formed, nor any district so. divided, that it shaIR contain less, an forty persons between the ages of four and sixteen years.
 Sec. AT. Every school district shall be a body corporate, and shall have power to sue and be sued, to purchase, receive, hold and convey, real and person. al property for school purposes to build, purchase hire, and repair school houses, and to supply the same with fuel, furni- ture, and other appendages and accom- modat1ons to establish schools of diff ferent grades; to purchase globes, maps, blackboards, and other school apparatus; to establish and maintain a school libra ry; to employ teachers, except for such time as the town may direct the school visitors to employ the teachers, and shall be holden to pay the wages of such teach CTS as are employed by the committee of such district in conformity to law; to lay tax esf for all the foregoing purposes: to borrow money for any purpose for which it may lay tax; and to make all lawful agree ments and regulations for establishing and conducting schools, not inconsistent with the regulations of the town having jurisdiction of the schools in such district.
 Sec. AS. The name or number and Him. it's of every school district shall be enter ed on the records of such district, and on the records of the town or towns to which such district belongs.
 Sec. 49. Whenever the boundary lines
 
 selectmen of the town in which said dis trict is situated shall settle and define the same; they shall also settle and describe the boundary lines of any new district 1; and whenever said selectmen cannot agree in settling and defining said boundary lines, the town to which such district be- longs may appoint three indifferent per sons for that purpose, who shall have the same authority therein as is herein cofer- ed upon said selectmen; and said bound- ary lines may in either case, when neces- sary, be defined by actual survey; and when parts of such districts lie in two or more towns, the selectmen of the towns in which any such part is situated, or in case of disagreement, indifferent persons ap- pointed as aforesaid, shall settle and de- fine the boundary lines of such part.
 Sec. 50. Whenever it is proposed to form, alter, unite, or dissolve any school district or districts, notice that such change is proposed shall either be posted on the school house in each school dis trict to be, affected, or, if there be no school house in any such districts, then at the usual place for posting warnings for meetings of such districts; or printed in newspaper published in the town to which such districts or any one of them may belong; and copy of the same left with the clerk of each of said districts at least fifteen days before the town is called to act upon the proposition.
 Sec. 51. Whenever application shall be made to town to form, alter, or dissolve, school district, or to unite two or more school districts, any district agrieved by the action of the town, in the premises, may appeal from such action or neglect of action of the town to the superior court of the county in which such town is sit uated,
 Sec. B. Such appeal may be taken to either of the next two terms succeeding the action or neglect appealed from; and shall be made by brief statement, that such an appeal is taken, by whom, and the subject matter of such appeal signed by the proper agent or attorney of the ap- pellants, to which shall be annexed ci- tation, signed by proper authority, noti- flying the appellees to appear at the court to which such appeal is taKen; and ser vice thereof shall be made by some prop CT officer by leaving true and attested copy of such appeal and citation with the town clerk, or one of the selectmen, of such town, and with the clerk, or one of the district committee, of any other dis trict interested, at least twelve days be- fore the session of the court to which the same IS made returnable.
 Sec. B. Said court shall hear the par ties, and shall have the same powers to act upon said application that said town by law had; and if said court sees fit, it may appoint committee to report the facts and their opinion thereon: and the final decree of the court in said premises shall be recorded in the records of said town, and said court shall have full power as to the allowance and taxation of costs including the fees for the surveys, and copies and recording of such decree.
 Sec. 54 Unless the town shall abolish all the school districts and parts of dis tricts within it's limits, no alteration of the lines, so fixed by such decree, shall be made, except by the superior court of such county; and such court shall have original jurisdiction of any application for the purpose, made by any district in- terested.
 Sec. 55. When any two or more dis tricts shall be consolidated into one, the new district shall own all the corporate property of the several districts and when district shall be divided, the funds and property, or the income and proceeds thereof, belonging to such district. shall be distributed among the several parts, in proportion to the nnmber of persons between the ages of four and sixteen years in each; and in case the distribution shall not be made before the district is divided, and the several parts cannot agree, the selectmen of the town, or if the district lies in two or more towns, the selectmen of the several towns shall distribute the same. st..sr ef4gs
 Sec. 56. Whenever, on any such divis- ion of any such school district, the only or principal property of said district shall consist of Q school house and real estate connected therewith, which cannot be di- vided between the several parts of said district without great inconvenience, the