be given by the clerk of the meeting by posting notices thereof in five public places in the district at least five days before the time appointed for the adjournment.

[Con. School Law, tit. VII, § 34, sub. 3, rewritten without change, except that by present law it is the duty of the district clerk to give notice of an adjourned meeting. We propose that the notice shall be given by the clerk of the meeting.]

(Page 43, § 34, sub. 3.)

§ 111. Special meetings.—A trustee may call a special meeting at any time; and shall call such meeting whenever requested in writing by five qualified voters. If the office of trustee is vacant, or if he neglects or refuses to act, or call such meeting within five days after a written request therefor is presented to him, the clerk possesses all his powers and is subject to all his duties under this section. If both offices are vacant, the school commissioner may call a special meeting. A special meeting shall be held at the time and place specified in the notice. The notice of a special meeting must state the purpose thereof, and no other business can be there transacted.

[Con. School Law, tit. VII, §§ 4, 6, and Con. School Law, tit. VII, § 47, sub. 1, rewritten and changed as follows: The provisions requiring a trustee to call a special meeting when requested in writing by five qualified voters, and authorizing the clerk to call a special meeting in case of the refusal or neglect by the trustee are new.]

(Pages 31, 47, §§ 4, 6, 47, sub. 1.)

If the

§ 112. Special meeting in default of annual meeting. annual meeting is not held, a special meeting shall be called within twenty days thereafter by the trustee or clerk for the pur

pose of transacting the business of the annual meeting. If such special meeting is not so called, the commissioner or the superintendent may direct a qualified voter of the district to give notice of a special meeting. The district officers shall make to such meeting the reports required to be made at the annual meeting, subject to the same penalty in case of neglect. The officers elected at such meeting shall hold their respective offices during the remainder of the current school year.

[Con. School Law, tit. VII, § 9, rewritten without change, except that the provision as to holding over until their successors are elected and have qualified is omitted here, but is included in § 731 of the revision.]

(Page 32, § 9.)

§ 113. Notice of special meeting; how served. The qualified voters at an annual meeting may, by resolution, prescribe the method of giving notice of a special meeting. Such method shall be observed until changed in the same manner. If a special method is not so prescribed, such a notice must be served by reading it in the hearing of each qualified voter, or by delivering a copy to him, or by leaving a copy at his abode, at least six days before the meeting. Notice of a special meeting must be served by the trustee or clerk, or by any other qualified voter designated by the trustee for that purpose.

[Con. School Law, tit. VII, §§ 2, 6, 34, subs. 3 and 47, sub. 2, rewritten and condensed without intended change of substance.] (Pages 30, 31, 43, 47, §§ 2, 6, 34, subs. 3 and 47 sub. 2.)

§ 114. Powers of district meeting.-A district meeting has power:

1. To appoint a chairman.

2. To appoint a clerk of the meeting, if the district clerk be

absent.

3. To adjourn from time to time.

4. To elect district officers.

5. To fix the amount of the official bonds of the treasurer and

collector.

6. To vote a tax for establishing or maintaining a school library and for the purchase of a bookcase.

7. To vote a tax to supply a deficiency in any former tax.

8. To authorize the trustee to cause the schoolhouse and its appendages and the furniture and school apparatus to be in

sured.

9. To alter, repeal and modify its proceedings.

10. To vote a tax to replace moneys of the district lost or embezzled by district officers; and to pay the reasonable expenses incurred by district officers in defending suits or appeals brought against them for their official acts, or in prosecuting suits or appeals by direction of the district against other parties.

11. To designate a site for a schoolhouse. Such designation can only be made at a special meeting, and by a resolution describing the site by metes and bounds.

12. To provide for the transportation of pupils to a school and raise by taxation the funds necessary therefor.

13. To vote all taxes which may be necessary and proper for the maintenance of the school and the acquisition of property therefor; but a failure to vote a tax does not prevent the trustee from incurring any obligation or contracting any indebtedness necessary for the purposes mentioned in this subdivision, and within the powers conferred on him by law.

[Con. School Law, tit. VII, § 14, subs. 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, 10, 11,

12, 13, 15, 16, 17 and 19, rewritten and condensed without intentional change. The remainder of this section is included in §§ 50, 64 and 116 of revision.]

(Page 33, § 14.)

§ 115. Election to be by ballot.-All district officers shall be elected by ballot, and the trustee shall provide a suitable ballotbox for that purpose. Two inspectors of election shall be appointed by the meeting, who shall receive the votes cast, canvass the same and announce the result to the chairman. A poll-list containing the name of every person whose vote shall be received, shall be kept by the clerk of the meeting. The ballots shall be written or printed, or partly written and partly printed, containing the name of the office and the candidate. The chairman shall declare to the meeting the result of each ballot as announced to him by the inspectors, and the persons having the highest number of. votes respectively for the several offices shall be elected.

[Con. School Law, tit. VII, § 14, sub. 4, Con. School Law, tit. VII, § 15, and Con. School Law, tit. VIII, § 14, rewritten and condensed without intended change of substance.

(Pages 33, 36, 72, §§ 14, 15, 14.)

§ 116. Votes on propositions to be by ballot.-All propositions submitted at a district meeting, involving the expenditure of money, the levy of a tax, or the purchase, sale or lease of property, shall be by ballot. A poll-list containing the name of every person whose vote shall be received, under this section, shall be kept by the clerk of the meeting.

[Con. School Law, tit. VII, § 14, sub. 18, and Con. School Law, tit. VIII, part of § 10, rewritten and consolidated without change,

except that the provision now contained in tit. VII, § 14, sub. 18, permitting the vote to be taken by ayes and noes, is omitted.]

(Pages 33, 73, §§ 12, 14.)

§ 117. Challenges. If a person who offers to vote at a district meeting is challenged as unqualified, the chairman shall not permit him to vote unless he makes the following declaration: "I do declare and affirm that I am and have been for the thirty days last past, an actual resident of this school district, and that I am qualified to vote at this meeting." The person making such declaration has all the rights of a qualified voter.

[Con. School Law, tit. VII, §§ 12, 15, and Con. School Law, tit. VIII, § 14, rewritten and condensed without intended change of substance.]

(Pages 33, 73, §§ 12, 15, 14.)

§ 118. Penalty for illegal voting.-A person not qualified who votes at a district meeting thereby forfeits ten dollars, to be recov ered in an action by the trustee for the benefit of the district. A person who willfully makes a false declaration after being challenged is guilty of a misdemeanor.

[Con. School Law, tit. VII, §§ 13, 14, and Con. School Law, tit. VIII, § 14, rewritten without intended change of substance.]

(Pages 33, 36, 72, §§ 13, 14, 14.)

§ 119. Chairman must receive vote.—A chairman who refuses to receive the ballot of a person entitled to vote at a district meeting or election, forfeits twenty-five dollars for the benefit of the district.

[Con. School Law, tit. VII, § 15, and Con. School Law, tit. VIII, § 14, rewritten without change of substance.]

(Pages 36, 72, § 15, 14.)