Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1885-02-23
THE TOWN SYSTEM OF
SCHOOLS.


relating to the s'town SYSTEM"
a town may at its annual meeting abol-
ish the school district system in such
town. When town so votes the school
districts therein shall, after the first day
of the next April, cease to exist except
for the purpose of settling their pecunia-
ry affairs.
The school-houses and the property be-
longing to such districts shall be apprais-
ed by three persons, to be appointed by
the assistant judges Of the county court
for the county, and the amount of such
appraisal shall stand to the credit of the
several school districts respectively; and
such school-houses and other property,
shall become the property of such town.
When a town, which contains frac-
tional part of district formed of parts
of two or more towns, adopts the town
system, such town shall, if the school
house of such district is situated in such
town, take possession thereof and of the
school apparatus, land and other proper
ty of the district; and the selectmen of
the towns in which the district is located
shall forthwith appraise such property,
and determine what proportion is owned
by the inhabitants of towns other than
that in which the school-house is sit
uated.
The town taking property of fractional
districts shall, within sixty days after
such appraisal of the selectmen, or the
report or the commissioners, pay to the
treasurers of adjoining towns the amount
apportioned to the inhabitants of such
towns.
If a town votes to abolish the district
system it shall, at the same meeting,
elect board of three or six school di-
rectors, citizens of such town, one-third
of whom shall be elected for one year,
one-third for two years, and one-third for
three years from the close of the school
year. At each annual town meeting there
after the town shall elect successors to
those directors whose term of office ex-
pires that year, and the term of Office OF
directors so chosen shall commence at
the close of the school year and continue
for three years.
The board of school directors shall
on or before the first day of April in each
| year, elect one of their number chairman
who shall have the powers and be sub,
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The board of school directors shall be
sworn, and shall have the care of prop
erty belonging to the public schools Of
! the town, shall prescribe the number OF
schools, employ teachers and fix theil
compensation, have the management Of
the public schools, examine and allow
claims arising therefrom, and draw war
rants for the payment of such claims up
on the town treasurer, and in genera
shall have the powers and perform the
duties of the prudential committee ant
clerk of a school district. They may es
tablish graded schools and provide fol
the instruction of scholars in the higher
branches, and may make regulations, no
consistent with law, for carrying the pow
ers granted them into effect.
The board of school directors may re
ceive students from other towns into thu
schools upon such terms as they deem
proper, and moneys received from sucl
students shall be paid into the schoo
fund of the town.
The selectmen of town using tn
town system shall annually appropriate
for the use of schools in such town sun
not exceeding one-half nor less than one
fourth of the grand list of such town, ant
shall assess a tax annually to defray sue
appropriations.
The treasurer of such town shall kee
a separate account of the moneys appro
priated or given for the use of schools
and shall pay, out of such moneys, wal
rants drawn by the board of school d
rectors for the use of schools.
Such town shall provide and maintai
suitable school-houses, and the location
construction and sale of the same sha
be under the control of the board {
school directors.
The foregoing provisions of this chal
ter shall not apply to graded school di
tricts that have been incorporated by az
of the legislature, unless accepted by
vote of two-thirds of the voters therein
2 nor to district formed by the concu
rent votes of two or more adjoining town
f without the concurring votes of each
said towns consenting thereto.
A town having abolished it's school di
trict system in pursuance of law may
any fifth annual town meeting thereaft
D abolish its town system of schools by
e vote of majority of the legal vote
present.
At the last session of the legislature
law was passed making it compulsory
each town to vote in the matter of adop
> ing or rejecting the town system as fC
: lows:
e Each town in which the school distri
Y system exists, shall, at the annual NEE
O ing of the town, in the years 1885 al
1886, vote upon the question of abolis
ing the district system and adopting t
town system.
The vote prescribed in the precedil
/ section shall be taken previous to t
g election of town superintendent, and sh;
# be by ballot; the question to be vot
upon shall be announced by the moderat
Of the meeting, who shall give opportu
ity FOR discussion of the same, upon co
g clusion of which he shall require all w
J, favor abolishing the district system a
d adopting the town system to write up
n their ballots the word "Yes,' and
r. who oppose the same to write upon t
ballot the word 'sNo, and upon being {
posted in the usual manner of voting
i ballot, the ballots shall be counted a
the result Of the vote, certified to by t
J. clerk of the town, shall be sent to the
N fee of the secretary of the state, and sh
rs be for the use and information of the stt
Il superintendent of education.
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