Litchfield enquirer., 1872-09-26


 snch school house and real estate, shall. set such schaOl-house and raal estate to one part, and award that the other paFt or paFts shall receive, from the part to which such school-house and Te1 estate are set, such sum of money as shah m the judgement of such selectmen be just and ri06t. and such award shall be binding upon the several parts of said district. Sec. 57. All associations under the act of 1841. allowing any two or more adjoln- ing school districts to associate together and form a union district, entered into be- ! fore the repeal of said act, shall continue to be managed and regulated according to the provisions of said act, any law or usage to the contrary notwithstanding; unless the town shall abolish or consoli- date all the school districts within its iIn- it's n.e- ,..,.ts 1 Sec. 58. The schools in every school district formed from parts of two or more towns shall be under the charge and direction of the towns in which the sehoel-h house is situated; unless the 1 towns shall make some other agreement ] regarding the jurisdiction over such ] school. G l Sec. 59. Every school district Shall hold an annual meeting, on such day in the month of June, July, August, or Septem- 1 Der in each year, as the committee, or clerk of the district, in the notice thereof, may desi gnate, for the choice of officers, and for the transaction of any other busi- ness relating to schools in said district; ! and shall also hold Q special meeting whenever the same shall be duly called; but nothing in this section shall prevent school districts by previous vote from fixing the time of annual meetings within | the months above named.
 l Sec. 60. District meetings shsll be held | at the district school-hOuse; but If there I be no. suitable school house, the com mittee shall determine the place of meet ing if there be no committe, the clerk shall determine the same; if there be no I committee and no clerk y8he selectmen of the town, te which said district belongs, shall determine. the place of meeting; which shall, in all cases, be within the limits of the district.
 Sec. 61. Notice of the time, place, and object of every annual and special meet ing of the district, shall be given, at least five days inclusive, previous to holding the same. The district committee, or, if there be no such committee, the clerk, or if there be no committee and no clerk, the selectmen of the town shall give notice of district meeting, either by publishing the same in newspaper printed in the district, or by posting a notice on the district school-house, or on the sign-post 1 within the district, or in some other mode previously designated by the district; but l If there be no such newspaper, school house, or sign-post, or other mode so des- ignated, the selectmen of the town, to which said district belongs, shall deter mine how and where the notice shall be given. The person or persons giving such notice, shall, on the day of giving the mo- tice, leave duplicate of the same with the clerk of the district, who shall pre- serve 1t on file.
 l Sec. 62. Every person, residing in the district, qualified to vote in town meeting, may vote in district meetings; and every meeting may choose its own moderator, and may adjourn from time to time to meet at the same or some other place within the district. Every person, who shall vote illegally in any school district meeting, shall forfeit the sum of thirty dollars to the town in which the offence is committed; and the states attorneys in the several counties, and grand jurors in the several towns, shall make presentment of every such offence.
 Sec. 63. Each school district shall choose, by ballot, ut the annnal meeting A com- mittee of not more than three persons, clerk. who shall be sworn, and treasurer and collector; who shall hold their respect i've offices until the next annual meeting, and until others are chosen and qualified: and any resident of the district so chosen, who shall refuse or neglect to perform the duties of the office, shall pay five dollars to the treasurer of the district, for the use l of said district; but any new district may choose its officers at its first, or at any subsequent meeting, called by the select men of the town; who shall hold their offices till the annnal meeting of such school district. The members of the district committee shall be residents of the district; but the other offices may be filled by any inhabitants of the town to which said district belongs. 1
 Sec. GA. If any district, at the time for the annual meeting, shall fail, or neglect, to appoint all, or any, of the officers re- quired by this act; or if any vacancy shall occur by death, removal from the district, or otherwise; the school visitors of the town, to which such district belongs, shall make such appointment, and fill such va- cancy, on receiving written notice thereof from any three members of the district, and shall lodge the name or names of such officers, so appointed, with the dis trict clerk. .t
 Sec. 65. The clerk, treasurer, and col lector, of each school district, shall exer- else the same powers, and perform the same duties, in their respective districts, as the clerks, treasurers, and collectors of towns do in their respective towns.
 Sec. 66. The inhabitants of each dis trict, in lawful meeting, shall have the power to require that the treasurer and collector shall respectively give bonds to the district, for the faithful discharge of the duties of their respective offices; which bonds shall be approved by the district committee, before the treasurer or collect or shall enter on the duties of his office.
 Sec. 66. In case of the refusal or neg lect, at any time of any district to employ a teacher and keep open school during the usual portion of the year, the school visitors of the town having jurisdiction over such district may, if they deem 1t expedient, employ one or more teachers, and keep open 8 public school in the school-house of said district for the period for which the town would be obliged during that schoolyear to main- tain a school in such district; but the whole expense of any school thus opened shall be paid by the town on the order of the selectmen, upon their receiving A cer- thcate of the amount thereof from the school visitors. And in any such case, the town shall be entitled to receive the same payments from the Connecticut school fund and State appropriation, as if such school had been kept open by such district in the usual manner.
 Sec. 68. No district shall be entitled to receive any money from the state, or from the town in which it lies, unless such dis trict shall be supplied with school house, and out buildings pertaining there to, which shall be satisfactory to the board of school visitors.
 Sec. 69. Whenever district shall have voted to erect a new school house. the same shall be built according to plan approved by the board of school visitors, and by the building committee of such district; but such officers shall not have