whose terms will expire at the end of the current school year. All terms shall begin on the first day of July. The trustees first elected shall enter at once on the duties of their office, and the office of an existing trustee in such common school district shall thereupon cease, except for the purposes herein provided in case

of a dissolved district.

[Con. School Law, tit. VIII, §§ 1, 2, 4, 5, rewritten and condensed without change, except that the time for commencement of the terms of the board of education is changed from August to the first day of July. This is necessary by reason of the change in the school year. See § 8 of revision as to school year.] (Page 63, §§ 1, 2, 4, 5.)

§ 76. Effect of adverse action.-If at such a meeting, a proposi tion for the establishment of a union school district is rejected, no other proceedings shall be taken, except to reconsider or adjourn, and another meeting for the same purpose shall not be called within one year thereafter.

[Con. School Law, tit. VIII, part of § 5, rewritten without intended change in substance.]

(Page 64, part of § 5.)

§ 77. Board a corporation; designation of district.—The trustees and their successors shall constitute the board of education of such union school district, and as such they are a body corpor

ate. The commissioner shall designate such district as "Union

school district number

of the town of

" which

shall be the name and style of the board.

[Con. School Law, tit. VIII, §§ 5, 7, rewritten without intended change in substance.]

(Pages 64, 66, parts of §§ 5, 7.)

§ 78. Officers.-The board of education at its first meeting, and at each annual meeting thereafter, shall elect one of its members president. In a district not conterminous with a city the board shall appoint a clerk, who may be one of its own number, or any other qualified voter except a teacher employed in the district. A person so appointed shall be clerk of the board of education and of the district, and shall perform all the clerical and other duties pertaining to his office. He is entitled to receive such compensation as may be fixed by an annual district meeting, and if provision is not so made for his compensation, the board of education may fix the same. The board shall also annually appoint a district treasurer and a collector who must be taxable voters in the

district. The treasurer is entitled to receive such compensation as may be fixed by the board.

[Con. School Law, tit. VIII, § 7, rewritten and changed as follows: The provision as to the bond of the treasurer and collector is omitted for the reason that it is sufficiently covered by §§ 182, 183 of the revision. The provision as to filling vacancies is included in § 56 of the revision.]

(Page 66, § 7.)

§ 79. Expenses, how paid.--The reasonable expenses of the necessary proceedings on the organization of a union school district, as herein prescribed, are a charge against the district so organized. If a union school district is not organized, the persons who signed the request for a meeting are jointly and severally liable for such expenses.

[Con. School Law, tit. VIII, § 3, and part of § 4, rewritten and consolidated without intended change in substance.]

(Page 64, §§ 3, 4.)

§ 80. Filing papers.-Copies of the request, notice of meeting, order of the commissioner or superintendent, directing the call of the meeting, if any, and of the minutes of the meeting, duly certified by the chairman and secretary thereof, shall be by them or either of them transmitted to and filed with the town clerk, commissioner and superintendent.

[Con. School Law, tit. VIII, part of § 5, rewritten without intended change in substance.]

(Page 65, part of § 5.)

§ 81. Powers and duties of boards of education. Each board

of education of a union school district has power, and it is its

duty:

1. To adopt such rules for its government as it shall deem proper for the discharge of the duties required under this chapter.

2. To establish such rules concerning the order and discipline of the school in the several departments thereof as it may deem necessary to secure the best educational results.

3. To prescribe the course of study by which the pupils of the schools shall be graded and classified, and to regulate the admis sion of pupils and their transfer from one class or department to another as their scholarship shall warrant.

4. To have the superintendence, management and control of such schools and to establish in the same an academic department, whenever in its judgment the same is warranted by the demand for such instruction. Whenever an academic depart

ment shall be established, the board of education shall possess all the privileges and enjoy all the immunities now possessed by

the trustees of academies.

5. To fill any vacancy which may occur in the board, other wise than by expiration of term. The person so appointed shall hold his office during the remainder of the term. If the vacancy

is not so filled within thirty days, it may be filled by the com

missioner.

6. To hold a regular meeting at least once in each quarter, and at such meeting to appoint one or more committees to visit every school or department under the supervision of the board. Such committee shall visit such school at least twice in each quarter, and report its condition at the next regular meeting of the board. Meetings of the board shall be open to the public, except that it may hold executive sessions, at which only its members or persons invited shall be present.

7. To purchase real property for the use of the district and erect schoolhouses or additions thereto as may be determined by a district meeting.

8. The board of education in a village or district which contains a population of five thousand may appoint a superintendent of schools. Such superintendent shall be under the direction of the board of education, which shall prescribe his powers and

duties.

9. To present at each annual district meeting, besides any other report or statement required by law, a detailed statement in writ ing of the amount of money which it is estimated will be required for the ensuing year for school purposes, exclusive of state school moneys, specifying the several purposes for which it will be required, and the amount for each. Such a statement may also be presented by the board at a special meeting called for that purpose and a supplementary or amended statement or estimate may be presented at any time.

10. To publish once in each year, at least twenty days before the annual district meeting, in a newspaper printed in the dis trict, if any, an itemized account of all moneys received by the board or the treasurer for the district, and the disbursement thereof. If a newspaper is not published in the district, the account shall be posted in five public places therein.

11. To report to the superintendent on any matter required by him in such form and with such authentication as he may pre

scribe.

12. To take and hold for the use of the schools or of any department thereof, any real estate transferred to it by gift, grant, or devise, or any gift, legacy or annuity, of whatever kind, given or bequeathed to the said board, and apply the same, or the interest or proceeds thereof, according to the directions of

the donor or testator.

[Con. School Law, tit. VIII, §§ 15, 16, 17, 18, 22, 23, 27, rewritten and condensed without intended change of substance. (Pages 74-81, §§ 15, 16, 17, 18, 22, 23, 27.)