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district lies, may alter or dissolve it. Either commissioner may separately institute a proceeding for that purpose, in respect to the territory within his own district, by serving on the other commissioners a notice to the effect that he proposes the alteration or dissolution of such district. If an alteration is proposed the notice shall contain a description of the territory to be taken from or added to the district. Such notice shall require the other commissioners to attend a joint meeting at a specified time and place for the purpose of considering the question of such alteration or dissolution. If a majority of the commissioners do not attend, or if they attend and do not consent to the alteration as proposed by the notice, either commissioner may call a special meeting of the qualified voters of such district for the purpose of deciding whether it shall be dissolved. The determination by the meeting has the same effect as an order by the commissioners. If the district be dissolved, its territory shall be included in a new district or annexed to adjoining districts by the commissioner in whose district such territory is situated.

[Con. School Law, tit. VI, §§ 7, 8, rewritten and condensed without intended change in substance, except that the last sentence is new.]

(Page 29, §§ 7, 8.)

§ 38. Annexing district to union school district.-A commissioner with the consent of the district affected, expressed by a resolution adopted at a district meeting, may dissolve a district

adjoining a union school district not conterminous with a city or village, and annex its territory to such district.

[Con. School Law, tit. VI, first sentence of § 6, rewritten and changed as follows: The present law provides that a commissioner with the written consent of the trustees may alter a district. We provide that the alteration can only take place after a district meeting has adopted a resolution consenting to such alteration.] (Page 28, § 6.)

§ 39. Consolidation of districts.-Two or more districts may be consolidated by the commissioner on his own motion, or on the request of the districts affected. The districts may, at a district meeting, adopt a proposition for consolidation, and on presentation of a copy thereof, certified by the clerk of the meeting, the commissioner shall forthwith determine whether such consolidation should be effected. If his decision is adverse to consolidation, it shall be filed with the clerk of each district affected. If it is in favor of consolidation, it shall be served on the trustee or president of the board of education and filed in the office of the town clerk. The consolidation takes effect

on the filing of an order by the commissioner. He may, by the order, determine that the consolidated district shall be known as a new district, and that officers shall be elected accordingly; or that the other districts shall be deemed annexed to and consolidated with one named. When two or more districts shall be consolidated into one, the new district shall succeed to all the rights of property possessed by the dissolved districts, and shall

be liable for all their debts. On the entry of the order of consolidation, the districts so consolidated shall be deemed abolished.

[New. Except the provision as to the succession of property which is now found in Con. School Law, tit. VI, last part of § 9 with the addition of making a district which receives property from a dissolved district liable for the debts of such district.] (Page 29, § 6.)

§ 40. Alteration of a bonded district.-A school district which has an existing bonded indebtedness shall not be divided; nor shall such district be altered by the addition of territory, except from a dissolved district, without the written consent of a majority of the persons residing in such territory, qualified to vote at a school meeting, and also of the owners of a majority in value of the property therein, assessed on the last preceding town assessment-roll. Such consents must be filed in the office of the town clerk, and shall be in addition to any other consent herein required.

[Based upon Con. School Law, tit. VI, § 6, and Con. School Law, tit. VIII, § 30, but mostly new.]

(Pages 28, 82, §§ 6, 30.)

§ 41. Continuance of dissolved districts.-Though a district be dissolved, it shall continue to exist in law for the purpose of providing for and paying all its just debts; and to that end all officers shall continue in office, and the inhabitants may hold special meetings, elect officers to supply vacancies, and vote taxes; and all other acts necessary to raise money and pay such debts shall

be done by the inhabitants and officers of the district.

[Con. School Law, tit. 6, § 12, unchanged in substance.] (Page 30, § 12.)

§ 42. First meeting in new district.-When a school district is formed, the commissioner shall deliver to a qualified voter a notice describing the district and appointing the time and place for the first district meeting. Such voter shall serve the notice in the same manner as for a special meeting under this chapter, and for his refusal or neglect shall forfeit five dollars for the benefit of the district. If such meeting is not held, the commissioner may call another meeting in the same manner.

[Con. School Law, tit. VII, §§ 1, 2, 3, 5, rewritten and condensed without intended change of substance. The manner in which the notice must be served is prescribed by § 113 of the revision.] (Page 30, §§ 1, 2, 3, 5.)

ARTICLE III.

DISTRICT OFFICERS.

Section 50. District officers.

51. Qualification of officers.

52. Eligibility to office.

53. Term of office.

54. Terms in new district.

55. Vacancy; how created.

56. Vacancy; how filled.

57. Resignation of district officers.

58. Notice to persons elected.

59. Penalty for refusal to serve.

60. General duties of trustee.

61. Report of trustee to commissioner

Section 62. District in two or more counties.

63. Duties of clerk.

64. Contracts with other districts.

65. Contracts with schools without the state.

66. Code of public instruction.

67. When action does not abate.

68. Water closets and privies.

[General note. This article makes few changes in the former law, but the subject is rearranged and rewritten. The neighborhood schools provided by chapter two hundred and ninety-five of the laws of eighteen hundred and ninety-seven are abolished and permission is given the trustee to make contracts with districts outside the state, for the instruction of children residing therein.] § 50. District officers.-Each common school district shall have one trustee, a clerk, a collector, and a treasurer.

[New. The present law does not separately enumerate the district officers. It provides, by tit. VII, § 14, sub. 4, that one or three trustees, a clerk and collector shall be elected, and where a district meeting has so determined, a treasurer. We provide that each common school district shall have but one trustee, and every district a treasurer. By § 52 of the revision we provide that the collector may also hold the office of treasurer.]

(Page 33, § 14, sub. 4.)

§ 51. Qualification of officers.-Every district officer must be a resident and qualified voter of the district, and able to read and

write. }

[Con. School Law, tit. VII, § 23, and Con. School Law, tit. VIII, § 8, rewritten and condensed without intended change of substance.

(Page 41, § 23.)

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