Year: 1872

cost of each and all .f the public schools in such town for the school year next .,re. ceeding. and ansestimate of the cost oI the schools of the town for the current school year. Said board shall also. on Or before the fifteenth day of octoberin each year, fix the several an ounts which in their judgement will be sufficient fo nay the wages of teachers (including board, fuel, and the incidental expenses of main taining the schools in the various districts within the jurisdiction of such town, for the period, during the current year, that schools are required by law, or by vote oi the town, to be maintained: and said board shall notify the respective districts of the several amounts so fixed.

 Sec. Ill. At the close of each term oi school in any district, and on the certif. cate of the school visitors thai the school or schools of the district for such term having been kept in all respects according to law, the Sc lectmen shall draw an order on the town treasurer in favor of such district for a sum of money sufficient, and no more than is sufficient to pay the expenses incurred by Said district for said term, for the wages of teachers Gnclnding board). fuel, and incidental expenses, if the expenses in- cured by the district for the above name ed purposes, during the school year. does not exceed the amount fixed upon for 1 such district as provided in the preceding section of this act But if such expenses exceed said amount, the joint board of school visitors and selectmen shall meet within fifteen days after the close of the school year, and decide whether or no! the expenditure in excess of the amount l fixed upon was necessary to maintain the school or schools of the district for the 1 time required by law. If said board shall ! decide that such additional expense was necessary, the selectmen shall draw an order on the town treasurer for an amount sufficient to pay the same; but if said | joint board shall decide that such addi- tlonal expense was not necessary, the dis trlct shall pay the. same, unless the town otherwise order.

 Sec. 112. No town which includes a city within it's limits, shall be required to expend for school purposes ln any year a greater sum than would be raised by a tax of one mill on it's grand list. if said city IS organized into one or more school districts, and the district or the several districts of the town have each appropri- l ated for the support of public schools during the year in which such, tax would be payable a sum of money sufficient. with the income derived from other sources, to pay the wages of teachers, the cost of fuel 1 and the incidental expenses of the public schools of said district or districts for at ] least thirty weeks of said year provided, that the said sum shall be paid without abatement, on or before the first day of fNl1 Iho ;oI the town tax shall have become due, to the several school districts in the town, in proportion to the number of children in l each, at the last proceeding enumeration, between the ages of four and sixteen.

 Sec. 113. If any town shall refuse or neglect to provide for the support of it's schools, according to the provisions of the three next proceeding sections, it shall forfeit to the state sum equal to the amount which i. was by said provisions 1 required to raise and appropriate, to be recovered by the treasurer of the state in an action founded upon this statute.

 ! . Sec. 114. Whenever the number of scholars in an district for any term of l school shall be so small that, in the judg- ment of tho district, the maintaining of A separate school by said district for such term is inexpedient, such district may, for such term, by vote unite its school with the school of an adjoining district or dis tricts. Such union of schools shall be made only with the approval of the school visitors of the town in which tEe districts are situated. And if any district shall unite it's school with that of another dis trict or districts, as provided in this sec l tion, such districts shall be deemed to have complied with the law, in the same manner as if it had maintained a separate schoolfor the time required by law.

 Sec. 115. If any district maintains a school of a higher order than IS required by law, and thereby incurs increased ex- pense for its school or if any district shall continue it's school for longer time than is provided for at the expense of the town, according to the twenty-third sec- tion of this act. or if any district shall expend for teachers wages or other pur- poses a sum which the school visitors and selectmen deem unnecessary and nxt1svH- part the cost ot such school, above the sum received by such district from the town treasury, shall be paid by tax laid by said district. Nothing, however, in this act, is to be construed as forbiddine the payment of the additional expense oi of continuing any school longer than the time required by law, by voluntary con- t1ibution, or by tuition charges.

 Sec. 116. No district shall be entitled to receive any money from the state cl town in any year. unless the district com mittee shall have made, on or before the fifteenth day of September, next proceed. ing, the report required by the ninety first section of this act

 Sec. 117. The income from the school kl1 zk H. -.l state appropriation, apportioned to any school district. formed from from parts of two or more towns, shall be paid into the treasury of the town hay ing jurisdiction over such district. under the provisions of section fifty-eight of this act and the expenses of the school in such district shall be paid by said town in thes same manner and on the same con. ditions as if said district lay wholly within it's limits but during the month of Sep. tember. in each year, the school visitors of said town shall ascertain the cost oi maintaining said school for the year end ing on the thirty-first day of the proceed. ing August; and deducted from this amount the sums received by the town fol such district during said year from the school fund and state appropriation, they shall apportion the remainder of the cost of such school among the towns in which such district lies. in proportion to the number of persons between the ages oi four and sixteen years in each, as ascer- tained by the enumeration made In the January proceeding, according to the pro- visions of section ninety-nine of this aci and shall, before the first Monday in Oct. ober. present 8 copy of said apportion. ment to the selectmen of each of said towns and the selecsmen of the town el towns not having jurisdiction over said district shall cause the sums thus appor tioned to their respective towns to be paid from the town treasury to the town having jurisdiction over said district.

 Sec. 11S. In all cases when a school 1T any district has been or shall be kept during portion of the school year. but not according to law, or when for any other cause there has been or shall be a forfeiture of moneys accruing from .the school fund or annual state appropriation that would otherwise have haen maid tr