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Timestamp: 2019-09-21 18:34:32
Document Index: 152640239

Matched Legal Cases: ['§ 3', '§ 4', '§ 5', '§ 7', '§ 10', '§ 11', '§ 12', '§ 13', '§ 3', '§ 4', '§ 5', '§ 6', '§ 7', '§ 8', '§ 9', '§ 10', '§ 11', '§ 12', '§ 13', '§ 14']

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VU LAWS OF
number, and by its metes and bounds, or'by other sufficient description by
which the boundaries may be known, and shall fix the day and place for the
first meeting of the inhabitants thereof.
§ 3. The officers of each township organized for school purposes shall be
§ 4. The commissioner and inspectors of common schools shall, by virtue
of their respective offices, be school directors of the township.
§ 5. Whenever any county court shall make an order for the organization
of a school township, they shall appoint a commissioner and two inspectors of
common schools therein, who shall be school directors, and shall continue in
office until their successors shall be chosen and qualified, as hereinafter provided.
§ 7. It shall be the duty of the school directors to meet at such time and
for the meeting of therinhabitants.
who shall continue in such office and perform the duties thereof, until a successor shall be elected and qualified.
out and deliver to each person so appointed a copy of the order of the court
describing the township, and appointing the time and place of the first meeting
§ 10. It shall be the duty of every person so appointed to notify every inhabitant of the section or neighborhood assigned to him, qualified t» vote at
township meetings, by reading the copy of the order in the hearing of each
such inhabitant, or in case of his absence from home, by leaving a copy thereof,
or of so much thereof, as relates to the time and place of meeting, at his place
of abode, at least six days before the time of meeting.
§ 11. In case such notice shall not be given, or the inhabitants of the township shall refuse or neglect to assemble or form a township meeting when so
notified, the directors shall appoint some'other dayTor the meeting, and cause
notices to be renewed in the manner above prescribed.
§ 12. All vacancies which shall happen in the office of commissioner or inspector, before the first general meeting of the inhabitants, shall be supplied by
the county court; and if any township after having been formed and organized
shall be dissolved, so that no competent authority shall exist therein to call township meetings, the county court of the county may make an order for the reorganization thereof, and proceed as in case of an original organization.
§ 13. Every person, who shall be appointed to serve notices of a township-
the age of twenty-one years, and shall at the time reside within the township
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Transcript VU LAWS OF number, and by its metes and bounds, or'by other sufficient description by which the boundaries may be known, and shall fix the day and place for the first meeting of the inhabitants thereof. § 3. The officers of each township organized for school purposes shall be one commissioner of common schools, not less than two nor more than four inspectors of common schools, and a township clerk; each of whom shall possess the qualifications of a voter in the township. § 4. The commissioner and inspectors of common schools shall, by virtue of their respective offices, be school directors of the township. § 5. Whenever any county court shall make an order for the organization of a school township, they shall appoint a commissioner and two inspectors of common schools therein, who shall be school directors, and shall continue in office until their successors shall be chosen and qualified, as hereinafter provided. § 6. Three copies of every order for the organization of a school township shall be made and certified by the clerk of the court, and delivered to the sheriff, whose duty it shall be to deliver one of them to each school director of the township. § 7. It shall be the duty of the school directors to meet at such time and place, as may be agreed upon by them, or any two of them, which time shall not be less than twenty days before the day appointed in the order of the court for the meeting of therinhabitants. § 8. The school directors, when so assembled, shall appoint a township clerk, who shall continue in such office and perform the duties thereof, until a successor shall be elected and qualified. § 9. At such meeting the directors shall appoint one or more persons within the township to give notice to the inhabitants of the township, of the time and place of the first general meeting, and assign to them the sections and neighborhoods in which their duties are to be performed; and the clerk shall make out and deliver to each person so appointed a copy of the order of the court describing the township, and appointing the time and place of the first meeting of the inhabitants. § 10. It shall be the duty of every person so appointed to notify every inhabitant of the section or neighborhood assigned to him, qualified t» vote at township meetings, by reading the copy of the order in the hearing of each such inhabitant, or in case of his absence from home, by leaving a copy thereof, or of so much thereof, as relates to the time and place of meeting, at his place of abode, at least six days before the time of meeting. § 11. In case such notice shall not be given, or the inhabitants of the township shall refuse or neglect to assemble or form a township meeting when so notified, the directors shall appoint some'other dayTor the meeting, and cause notices to be renewed in the manner above prescribed. § 12. All vacancies which shall happen in the office of commissioner or inspector, before the first general meeting of the inhabitants, shall be supplied by the county court; and if any township after having been formed and organized shall be dissolved, so that no competent authority shall exist therein to call township meetings, the county court of the county may make an order for the reorganization thereof, and proceed as in case of an original organization. § 13. Every person, who shall be appointed to serve notices of a township- meeting as above provided, and shall fail or neglect to serve notices in the manner above provided, after having been furnished with a copy of the order of the court, shall for every such offence forfeit a sum not exceeding three dollars. § 14. No person shall vote at any school township meeting, or for the election of any officer of the township, unless he be a free white male person above the age of twenty-one years, and shall at the time reside within the township and shall also be either a free-holder or house-holder therein; or shall have been