Year: 1875

such vote shall be taken Ap,d Brouided fttgther
That the electors of any town or Incorporated
city or village may, at me tme @ appointed TO
such vote shall be taken by ballot; and when such
order shall be thus made the vote shall be taken
by ballot. The vote upon the question OF estab
fishing high schools in towns incorporated vii
lages and cities shall be canyassed and deter
mined in the same manner as now provided by
law for canvassing and determining votes upon
other questions relating to such municipalities,
and sDecial meetings for consideration of this
matter shall be called and held in the same man.
ner as now provided by law for calling and hold
ing special meetings for other purposes.


SEC 2 Two or more adjoining towns may
unite in establishing and main tanning free high
school: and the vote to thus unite shall be taken
in each town separately as heTeinbefere provided.
So long as any town shall declfSsAa vail iselfo
the provisions of this act any s'NS 81 district or
two or more adjoining districts, neither located
wholly in one or in different towns, may establish
and maintain free high school, and thavote upon
the establishment Of such n senool shall be
taken in each district separately at an annual or
special meeting thereof, called and held in the
manner now provided by law for calling and hold
ing annual or special school district meetings:
PfoUided, That no more than two such free high
schools shall be established in any town: And
proUided further, That whenever any school dis
trict or districts, included in towns uniting to
tablish and maintain free high school, shall, by


itself or themselves, establish and maintain a
free high school in any town where no such
school exists, such district shall be exempt from
liability to taxation for the support of the high
schools maintained by the several towns in which
such school district or districts may be included.


SEC B. Towns, cities and villages shall receive
in trust, and faithfully eXpend, donations and be-
quests made to aid in the maintenance of free
high schools, and shall receive State aid in such
cases to the same extent and on The same cOndi-
tions as if such school had been established and
maintained by taxation. Towns, cities and vii
lagos, school districts and counties, in case all
ment of one high school, shall have the power
to levy and collect taxes for the establishment
and maintenance of free high schools in the
same manner they now by law authorized
to levy and collect taxes for other purposes
to determine the length of time such
free high schools shall be maintained
during the year, and the amount that shall be eX-
pended in their establishment, equipment and
management; to authorize the High School
Board hereinafter provided for to locate the free
high school permanently, or to provide that the
terms of said high school be held alternately in
such school districts embraced in the territory
uniting in its support as it may designate; to
authorize the said High School Board to secure
by purchase, lease or otherwise the necessary
buildings, furniture, apparatus and textbooks
for the use of such schools; to hire, and
contract with RToEP,eryGaaliied teachers
port of such high school, and for that
purpose to equalize the assessment of real aid
personal property made by the different town
assessors, and determine the amount to be raised
by each town, village, or school district uniting
in the support Of free high school and certify





it is to assess the tax upon the taxable property
therein.


SEC. 4. Whenever any town or towns, village,
village and town, school district districts
shall determine to establish and maintain free
high school under the provisions of this act, the
immediate supervision and management of such
as the High School Board, which shall be COM
posed of three members chosen by convention
of the district officers of all the school districts
composing the high school district, said conven-
tion and election to be held at such time and
place as may be agreed upon by majority of the
said school officers, notice of which meeting.
signed by said majority, or by some person au-
thorzed by them so to 20, shS!i be given 30 the
Clerk of each school district Interested, whose
duty it shall be to notify the other members ofthe
Board of which he is member: Pf005de0, Ihat
when single school district shall establish a
high school in accordance with the provisions OF
this act the District Board of said district shall
constitute the High School Board. The term OF
office of the members of the High School Board
shall be three years. except that at the first election
of members of such Board they shall be elected
respectively for one, two and three years. Vacan-
cies occurring in the Board shall be filled in the
same manner as now provided by law for filling
vacancies in school district boards: Pr0gtded,
That when two more towns unite to form a
high school district the County Superintendent
of the county in which the high school is located
shall fill any vacancy that may have existed for
more than ten DAYS


which the management of it's schools is commit
ted to Board of Education, shall determine to
tablish and maintain free high school, under the
provisions of this act, the immediate supervision
and management of such high school shall be vest
ed in such Board of Education, and such Board
shall have the same power and authority in rela-
tion to such high school as is vested in High
School Boards created by this act in other
places.


SEC g. The High School Board shall choose
from their own number a President and Sccre-
tary, but when all the members of the Board
shall be agreed thereto the Secretary chosen may
be person not member ofsad Board. When the
high school district shall comprise more than a
single school district the Treasurer of the High
School Board shall not be member thereof, but
the Treasurer of the town wherein the high school
is located shall be e-Qbtcio the Treasurer of the
High School Board.


SEC. z. The High School Boards created by this
act are hereby invested with the same power
and authority in connection with the high
schools herein authorized to be established, as
are now possessed by District Boards in connec-
ton with the public schools of the State, and
the duties of such High School Boards and the
officers thereof shall be the same as are now i'm
posed by law upon said Schoo District Boards
and the officers thereof, so far as the same are
applicable, and they shall be subject to the same
provisions of law for neglect or malleasance,
with such restrictions and additions as pro-
yided for in this act.


SEC. s. 1t shall be the duty OF the High
School Boards herein provided for annually, on
or before the second Monday in July, in all cases
where two or more towns or two or more school
districts constitute the territory uniting in the
support of free high school, or where single
town or school district empowers them so to do,
or where no other provision is made for that pur
pose, to hold meeting and determine upon the
amount necessary to be raised by tax for the sup
port of such high school for the year; and if such
sch Dol is maintained by portions of more than
one town to determine what proportion OF such
amount shall be raised in that part of such high
school district situated in each town; and when
such determination is made the Clerk of said High
School Board shall certify to the Town Clerks or
the towns wherein such territory is situated the
amount to be raised in their several towns respect
lively, designating by school districts the taxable
property upon which such amount is to be as
sessed: and the said Town Clerks shall assess and
the Town Treasurer shall collect the same in the
same manner as school district taxes as
sessed and collected; and such taxes, when col
lected shall be paid upon demand to the Treas
urer of the High School Board entitled to receive
the same and by him be paid out upon orders
drawn by the Secretary of the High School Board,
countersigned by the President thereof, in pursu-
ance of the vote of the said High School Board,
and in no other manner.


SEC 9. The High School Boards shall have
the custody and control OF an the property be-
longing to such high school districts, shall make
all needful rules and regulations for the manage
ment of high schools, determine, with the adj
vice and consent of the State superintendent OF
Public Instruction. the textbooks, course of
study and minimum standard of qualification for
admission to the same and establish rates of
tuition for which non,resldents OF said high
school district may be admitted thereto.


SEC TO- The Secretary of every High School
Board shall annually. at the time now required
by law for Town Clerks to report TO County
intendent of the county district in which
such high school is situated, upon blanks
furnished by the State Superintendent OF
Public Instruction for that purpose, such
facts relating to such high school as
said State Superintendent may require. which
shall include the number of weeks such high
school has been maintained, the whole amount
expended for its support, the amount paid for in
struction therein, the number of pupils attending
the same and also the average attendance. And
the several County and City Superintendents of
the State shall include such reports In their re.
ports to the State superintendent, in such form
as he may require.


SEC IL Free high schools established and


maintained under the provisions of this act shall
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