The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1888-12-13

school district system under the provisions Of
this chapter may, at its annual town meeting
| in March, 1889, and at any fifth annual town
meeting thereafter abolish its town system OF
schools by vote of a majority of the legal yOt-
| ers present and the selectmen Of such town shall
insert an article for that purpose in the warning
for any fifth annual town meeting after such
! town has abolished its school district system.
upon the application in writing Of ten legal
voters in such town.
SEC. l43. When a town abolishes, or has
abolished. its town system OF schools, the town
shall be divided into the same number of school
districts, with the same limits and boundaries,
and the districts shall be designated by the same
numbers, and shall have the same powers, and
be subject to the same duties and liabilities as
before they were abolished by said town.
SEC. IA. When a town votes to abolish the
town system of schools, the sehoOl-houses and
other property formerly belonging to the school
districts shall become the property OF the same
school districts respectively
SEC 145. And there shall be paid to and by
the different districts such sum as will equalze
the school properties, that when so restored to
the district system, each district shall own its
own school property as before the adoption of
the town system and the selectmen and the
prudential committees of the several districts
may agree upon the amounts TO be so paid. and
shall file a written statement thereof by them
subscribed in the town clerks office.
SEC. l46. If the selectmen and the pruden-
tial committees of the various districts cannot
agree upon the valuation and equalization of the
school property, the assistant Judges of the
county court shall, upon application in writing
of a majority of the selectmen. or any one of the
committee, appoint three commissioners, not
residents OF or taxpayers in the town, who shall
apprase the various school properties upon the
same scale of values the former appraisal,
and shall determine what sum shall be paid by
or to the several districts TO equalize said school
properties, and shall determine any and all ques-
tons between the town and the districts, or be-
tween the several districts growing out of the
adoption and adjustment of the town system.
Sic. l47. Such commissioners shall give to
one or more OF the selectmen of the town, and
TO the several prudential committees at least ten
days notice OF the time when they will appraise
such school properties, and OF the time when and
the place where they will determine the amounts
to be paid received by the different school
districts, and any other question which shall be
submitted to them; and they shall make and
file in the town clerk Office report of all their
dOings and findings, which shall be final and CON
elusive upon all parties.
SEC. AS. When the seectmen and pruden-
tial committees have agreed upon the amounts
to be paid received by the several dis
tricts, and have filed in the town clerks Office
a written statement by them subscribed or when
the commissioners shall have filed their report
III this respect, the selectmen of the town shall
ASSESS u TAX upon the grand llstS Oh tine ustrlcts
from which such sums are due, sufficient to
cover such sums, and shall cause the same to be
collected and paid into the town treasury, like
town taxes, and shall pay out of the town treas
ury to the several districts such sums as they
are entitled to receive and the town may vote,
at the meeting at which the town system is
abolished, to distribute the process of equaliza-
ton equally over two, three or four years.
SEC. l49. At the annual town meeting, at
which the town system of schools is abolished,
the voters shall elect a clerk for each school dis
trict, who shall be a voter in such district. And
such clerk shall call the first meeting of said
school district, which shall be held ON the last
Tuesday of June next succeeding said town
meeting, by posting up notice as provided by
law for holding the annual meetings in school
dttricts and said school district may at this
meeting elect officers for the year ensuing, and
do any business that school districts may do at
their annual meetings.