Year: 1867

to which such district may be entitled, of all mon- cys appropriated by law for the benefit support and encouragement of common schools as is pro- vided in respect to towns; treasurer of the state annually, and upon the like conditions as are now by law prescribed for school districts for the pur- poses of school libraries, sum not exceeding the aggregate amount which the former districts of said town might have received in like circumstan- cess

 Sec. c. The annual meeting of said Union dis. tricts for the election of officers receiving the re- port or the committee laying the tax, and transac- ting other school business, shall be held on the tnlrd Monday of September, at place to be desig- nate by the school committee, or the town may by vote provide that any or all of such business shall De transacted at the annual town meeting: Spe- clal meetings of the district may be called by the scnool committee at any time, and shall be called at the request of twenty voters

 Sec. '. The necessary funds for the maintenance and local funds, shall be provided by tax to be levied on the grand list of the town by vote of the school district in lawful meeting convened.

 Sec. 8. Any town which shall have assumed the control of it's common schools in pursuance of this act or of the act to which this is an amendment may at its second annual meeting thereafter, but not previously, and at any subsequent annual meeting, abandon such control and re-establish the several school districts therein as they were before salo acton; and the property and funds, or the revenue or proceeds thereof belonging to said Un- ion district shall be distributed by the selectmen of the town as is provided in section seyenty-one and seventy-two, chapter Ill.,, title XVI, of the general statutes in case of division of districts; prorSded, mereheless that all local funds former y the property of said town and of the original dis tricts, shall be first returned made good to said district respectively.

 Sec. g. Ali provisions of the act concerning edu- cation, inconsistent with the foregoing provisions are hereby repealed

 Approved, July 18th, 1867.

 CHAPTER LXxxIv.

 An Act in addition to (" An Act concerning High

 and Rrjd0aS

 Be it enacted by the Senate and House ofRepre- sentatives in General Assembly convened:

 Sec. 1. The selectmen of the respective towns, and proper authorities of any city or borough, shall have power to estimate and assess, or cause to be estimated and assessed, the benefits accru- ing to any person or persons by the laying out, opening or alteration of any public highway with in their respective towns in the same manner as is by law provided for the estimate and assessment of damages sustained by such lay outs or altera- tions upon giving due notice to the parties to be benefited and such estimate and assessment of benefits may be had and made at the same time, and by the same tribunal which shall assess the damages as aforesaid pTorided, that the whole amount of benefits so assessed for any particular lay out, shall not exceed the damages so assessed therefor.

 Sec. 9 The selectmen, or proper authorities of any city or borough, shall order the benefits so as- sessed to be paid by the parties assessed respec- lively, into the treasury of the towns within such time as they shall limit and appoint and in default of payment, they may be collected in the same manner as town taxes are collected.

 Sec. B. If any person shall claim to aggreved by such estimate and assessment of benefits, he may, within thirty days after notice in writing of such estimate and assessment. apply to the superior court in the county in which such way is laid out for relief; and the same proceedings may be had in court upon such application, as provided for upon application for relief, from the estimate of damages by the act to which this is in addition.

 Sec. 4. "An Act in addition to An Act concern ing Highways and Bridges, for the town of Fair field, approved June 3Oth, 1s66 is hereby repealed.

 Approved, July 18th 1867.