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state for the instruction therein of children who reside in his district. Such contract shall be in writing and a copy thereof shall be filed with the district clerk and also with the superintendent. Upon the execution of such contract, children in such district may attend a school in another state, and such attendance shall be separately reported by the trustee in the same manner and with the same effect, as if such children had attended the school in the district where they reside. The agreed compensation for such instruction is a charge upon the district.

Such district shall by reason of such contract be deemed to have employed a qualified teacher, and is entitled to receive each year on account thereof during the continuance of the contract, the amounts contracted to be paid for the conveyance and education of such pupils, not exceeding, however, one district quota, if it appears that a free school has been maintained in such adjoining district for the period during the last school year, herein required in a common school district.

[New. This section is a substitute for L. 1897, chap. 293.]

§ 66. Code of public instruction.-The trustee is the custodian of the code of public instruction belonging to the district, and is liable for its loss by his fault or negligence. If so lost, he shall immediately at his own expense procure a copy of the latest edition of the code. Upon the expiration of his term he shall deliver the code to his successor. The trustee who violates this provi

sion forfeits twenty-five dollars for the benefit of the school

library, and such penalty shall be recovered by the supervisor.

[Con. School Law, tit. 15, §§ 12, 13, rewritten and condensed without intended change in substance.]

(Page 100, §§ 12, 13.)

§ 67. When action does not abate.-An action against a district. officer to recover a penalty or forfeiture does not abate by the termination of his office, except on the special order of the court in which the action is pending.

[New substitute for Con. School Law, tit. VII, last sentence of § 33.1

(Page 42, § 33.)

§ 68. Water closets and privies.-The trustee of each school district shall provide at its expense a suitable and convenient water closet or privy for each sex at each of the schools under his charge. Such closets or privies shall be entirely separate from each other with separate means of access; and the approaches thereto shall also be separated by a substantial close fence, not less than seven feet in height.

The trustee shall keep each closet and privy in a clean and wholesome condition, and a failure to comply with the foregoing provisions on the part of a trustee shall be sufficient ground for his removal from office, and from withholding from the district any share of the public moneys of the state.

[Con. School Laws, tit. VII, § 48, and Con. School Law, tit. VIII, § 15, sub. 14, rewritten and consolidated without intended change in substance.]

(Pages 50, 77, §§ 48, 15.)

ARTICLE IV.

UNION SCHOOLS.

Section 75. Union school district; how established.

76. Effect of adverse action.

77. Board a corporation; designation of district.

78. Officers.

79. Expenses; how paid.

80. Filing papers.

81. Powers and duties of boards of education.

82. Visitation and supervision by superintendent.

83. Powers of district.

84. Power of meeting to vote taxes.

85. Municipal authorities to raise school moneys.

86. Increase and reduction of board.

87. Member of board not to be interested in contracts.

88. Moneys; how paid by the board of education.

89. Adoption of academy.

90. Academy as academic department.

91. Visitation of academic department.

92. Limitation on dissolution.

93. Dissolution; distribution of property.

94. Re-transfer of academies.

95. Notice of proposed tax for school buildings and sites.

96. Continuance and election of boards of education.

[General note.-The law relating to union schools has been rewritten for this article. It is much condensed, and many provis ions that are also applicable to common school districts are omitted and applied by other provisions. It is thought that a simple, practicable scheme of government is here provided for schools of this grade.]

§ 75. Union school district; how established.-Union schools may be established as herein provided:

1. Fifteen qualified voters of a common school district may present to the trustee a request, signed by them, for a district meeting to determine whether a union school district shall be established therein. The trustee, within ten days after receiving such request, shall give notice that a meeting for that purpose will be held at the schoolhouse or other more suitable place in the district, at the time and place therein specified, not less than twenty nor more than thirty days after the service or posting of such notice. The notice shall be served either personally in the same manner as for a special meeting, or by posting the same in at least ten conspicuous places in the district. The notice shall also be published in each newspaper actually printed in the district, for at least once in each of two consecutive weeks next preceding the meeting. If the trus tee shall not give such notice within twenty days, the commissioner or superintendent shall authorize and direct a qualified voter of the district to give the same.

2. Fifteen qualified voters from each of two or more adjoining common school districts may unite in a request for a meeting of

the qualified voters thereof to determine whether they shall be consolidated by the establishment of a union school district therein. The trustees or a majority of them on receiving such request shall give the notice provided by the foregoing subdivision, except that the place for holding the meeting shall be as central as may be, and the notice shall be posted in at least five public places in each district. The commissioner or superintendent may order such meeting under the conditions and in the manner prescribed in the foregoing subdivision.

3. The meeting shall be organized by the election of a chairman and secretary, and may be adjourned for not more than ten days. A proposition to establish a union school district cannot be considered, unless in the case of a single district fifteen qualified voters thereof, and in the case of two or more districts the same number from each district, are present at the meeting.

4. A meeting may, by resolution, determine to establish a union school district in accordance with the request. If such resolution be adopted, the meeting may establish a board of education, which shall always consist of an odd number, and shall be composed of not less than three nor more than nine trustees, who by the order of the meeting shall be divided into three classes as follows: The first class shall hold until one year, the second until two years, and the third until three years from the first day of July next following. Thereafter trustees shall be elected at each annual district meeting, or charter election, to supply the places of those

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