The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1893-02-14


Judgment necessary, procure the con-
yeyance of said scholars to such other
schools, and pay for the same from the
school moneys of the town.
Sect 4.-The corporate powers of every
school district shall continue under this
act SO far as the same may be necessary
for the meeting of its liabilities and the
enforcing of its rights; and any property
held in trust by any school district by
virtue of a gift, devise or bequest for the
benefit of said district, shall continue to
be held and used according to the terms
thereof.
Sect. 5-The school moneys of every
town shall be so expended as to give as
nearly as practicable the same annual
length of terms in all its schools, and
every town shall make provision for the
maintenance of all its schools for not
less than twenty weeks annually. Any
town failing to maintain its schools as
provided in this section, shall be debar-
red from drawing its state school moneys
till it shall have made suitable provision
for so maintaining them thereafter.
Sect. 6-Adjoining towns, upon the
written recommendation of the
school committee of said
towns, may by concurrent
benefit of parts of said towns in what are
now union school districts, or may estab-
lish such schools, and shall contribute to
their support each in proportion to the
number of scholars in each of said
towns attending such schools. Said
schools shall be under the management
of the school committee of the town in
which their school houses are located.
Sect. THE inhabitants of any section
of town which fails or neglects to pro-
vide for the maintenance of free schools
may organize free high school precinct
in the manner hereinafter provided,
which shall have all the rights conferred
upon school districts in the prov sions of
la relating to free high schools; on
petition of any five voters resident in
said section, reciting the limits of the
precinct proposed, the municipal officers
Of the town shall call meeting of
the voters withih said limits by
causing notices, specifying the time,
place and purposes of said meeting, sew
en- days before the time appointed, to be
posted in two or more conspicuous
places within said limits. Said meeting
shall choose. moderator and atclerk
who shall be sworn, and shall by ma
jority vote of those present and voting,
determine whether said precinct. shall be
organized. 1t shall choose an agent who
shall be duly sworn, whose powers and
duties shall be the same as those of dis
trict agents as defined in the law relating
to free b. gh schools. Such precinct may
continue it's organization from year to
year by the holding of meetings called in
the manner aforesaid, so long as the
town shall neglect or refuse to support
free high schools. Sections of adjoining
towns may organize as herein provided,
and united in the support such schools.
But no more than two such precincts
shall exist at the same time in any town.
Moneys voted by said precincts shall be
assessed and collected in the manner
now provided for assessment and collec-
ton of moneys voted by school districts.
Sect. s. The management of the schools
and tho custody and care of all school
property in every town shall devolve upon
a experimenting schoor committee con-
sisting of thr, Q, five or.seven members IN
each town, as the.town may elect, who
shall be chosen by ballot at the annual
meeting of the town, and shall hold ONCE
for three years; provided, however, that
towns not having such committees when
when this act becomes law, the com
mittees then chosen, at their first meet
ing shall designate by lot member or
members to hold Office for one, two and
three years respectively, in manner as
follows, to wit: If consisting of three,
one for one year, one for two years and
one for three years; if consisting of five,
one for one year, two for two years, and
two for three years, if consisting of
seven, two for one year, two for two
years, and three for three years, and they
shall certify such designation to the
town clerk, to be by him recorded.
r Said committee shall have power to
fill vacancies occurring during the interim
between annual meetings, and shall
annually elect one of it's members super
| visor of schools, who shall be ex-officio
secretary of the committee, shall make
the annual enumeration of scholars re-
ouired by law, and shall examine the
schools and inquire into the regulations
and discipline thereof and the prof
cheney of the scholars, for which pur-
pose he shall visit each school at least
| twice each term. He shall make all
| rrports and returns relating to the schools
of the town which are now or may be
required by law to be made by superin
tending school committees, and perform
| such other duties as said committee shall
direct. Provided further, that in case
| the town SO duIuOIlLc, III leu VI tHO ouP
ervisor herein provided for, a superin
tendent may be elected who may or may
not be member of the committee.
Said committee shall serve without
pay, but the supervisor, or superintend
ent by them elected, shall receive fol
his services such sum as the town shall
annually vote therefor, which sum shall
in no case be less than two dollars pei
| day for every day of actual service.
/ Sect. ALL laws and parts of law
inconsistent herewith, except private ane
special laws authorizing towns and citie
| to choose school committees other thai
those herein provided for, are hereby re
| pealed.
the first day Of March, eighteen hundred
and ninety-four.
The Militia Laws.
/ The commission to revise the militi
laws will probably report two bills, th
one codifying the law relating to tn
m ovement of the militia, and the othe
re lating to organization. The first will
be simpler than the present law givinl
the Governor the power to make from
| time to time suitable regulations to carr,
| ont it's provisions What organization