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

SEC. 245 A school district may by vote raise
n tax on its list to purchase hire lands or
buildings for school purposes, and to build, re-
pair or furnish school-house, or as many school
houses as may be needed for the schools OF the
district
SEC. 246. A school district may elect a special
committee to purchase or hire lands or buildings
for school purposes, or to superintend the build
ing or repairing of a school-house, or to procure
necessary furniture and utensils therefor.
SEC. 247 A prudential committee receiving
a report from the supervisor of schools recon-
mending the repair or furnishing of a school
house, and not complying with the recommend
atiOns in such report, shall cause such articles
to be inserted in the notice of the next meeting
of the district as will enable the district to act
upon such recommendations.
SEC. 2iS. A district taking measures to pro-
vide a building to be occupied as a sehool-hOuse,
as authorized in section two hundred aud forty
five may, at the same meeting, by a two-thrds
vote, determine the location Of the school-house
SEC. 249. If the district fails to agree upon
such location, the selectmen of the town or
towns in which such district is situated may,
upon application of the prudential committee,
determine such location.
SEC. 80. IL the prudential committee neg
lects for five days to apply to the seeetmen three
voters of the district may apply in writing to
such selectmen, stating the neglect Of the pru-
dental committee and petitioning the seleetmen
to fix upon location.
SEC. 25l. The selectmen 80 applied to, shall
forthwith give notice Of hearing, in the same
manner as school district meetings are warned
and shall hear the petitioners and persons inter
ested and if the failure of the district to de-
termine a location and of the prudential com
mittee to apply within the limited time appears
at such hearing, the selectmen shall determine
such location, and shall make return of the ap.
plication and Of their doings thereon to the dis
triet clerk, who shall record the same.
SEC. 252. If district negleots for two years
to provide suitable sehool-house, or neglects for
one year to make the repairs or do the furnish
ing recommended by the supervisor of schools,
application for an order in the matter may be
made by two voters of the district 10 the select
men of the town or towns in which the district
is situated.
SIC 253. Such selectmen shall appoint a
time and place for hearing the applicants and
persons interested, and shall cause the applicants
to give notice 10 such district of such applica-
ton. and Of the time and place Of hearing,
which notice shall be served upon the district
like writ OF summons, at least twenty days be-
fore the time appointed for hearing.
SIC. 254. II it appears on hearing that the
district is guilty of the neglect charged, and
| that the interests of education in the district
require an order in the matter, the seleotmen
shall order the district TO provide school
house, or TO make the repairs or do the furnish
/ ing recommended by the supervisor, as the case
may be, which order shall be served on the dis
/ trict like ordinary process in civil causes.
SEC. 255. If the district fails to comply with
such order within six months after service thereof
the selectmen who made the order, or their sue
cessors in Office, shall provide the school house,
or make the repairs or do the furnishing re-
quired by their order; and when providing a
school-house, they shall provide suitable out
buildings and grounds therefor.
| SEC. 2J6. The selectmen may assess a tax
upon the district list for the amount required
for the purposes aforesaid, and make out a rate
bill therefor and said tax shall be collected by
the collector Of the town in which the school
house is located, in the same manner as town
taxes are collected, and shall be paid TO the Sc
lectmen and be used by them for the purposes
aforesaid.
SIC. 257. The proceedings under the five
preceding sections shall be recorded in the Office
Of the clerk Of the town in which the school
house is located, and copies Of such record, GER
tiled by such clerk, shall be evidence in the
courts.
SEC 25s. When it devolyes upon the select
men 10 locate or build school-house, if a ma
iority Of such selectmen cannot agree upon a lo-
cation therefor, they shall forthwith make re-