such regulations, it shall nevertheless be lawful that all school district meetings be hereafter called and warned in the manner prescribed by the forty-sixth and forty-seventh sections of the twenty-third chapter of the Revised Statutes. Stat. 1850, c. 213.

75. A school district passed the following vote or bylaw. The annual meetings of the district shall be called by the prudential committee, and warned by the clerk, who shall cause a copy of the warrant to be published in a certain newspaper printed in the town, and shall also post a copy of the same in four different public places within the limits of the district, and the prudential committee shall call the annual meeting of the district, on the Saturday evening following the annual town meeting in March. The clerk signed and issued a warrant not under seal for an annual district meeting on the Saturday evening designated in said vote or by-law by order of the prudential committee (which order was oral) and made thereon the following return. In pursuance of the above warrant I have warned the legal voters of the district (naming it) as prescribed by the by-laws to attend and act upon the business therein named J. A. G. district clerk. Held that the warrant for the meeting and the warning of the meeting were valid. 12 Met. 99.

76. The records of a school district showed that the district voted to authorize their clerk to call and warn their annual meetings. Held that the clerk was not thereby authorized to call and warn any other than the annual meetings, and that other meetings must be called by the selectmen or prudential committee according to the provisions of the Rev. Stat. c. 23, § 46. Held also that parol evidence was inadmissible to prove that the real vote of the district was to authorize the clerk to call and warn all district meetings. 12 Met. 105.

77. If the inhabitants of a school district, in pursuance

of the authority conferred upon them by the Rev. Stat. c. 23, § 48, prescribe the mode of warning future meetings, the mode so prescribed must be pursued so long as the vote therefor remains unrescinded, and meetings cannot afterwards be called in the manner specified in §§ 46 and 47 even though the officers of the district refuse or neglect to pursue the mode prescribed. 2 Cush. 419.

78. The clerk of a school district under a vote that future meetings be notified by posting up notices thereof at certain specified places, and " that the clerk warn all future meetings in said district," has no authority to call a meeting, but only to notify and warn a meeting called by competent authority. 8 Cush. 592.

1. Any two or more contiguous school districts may associate together and form a union district, for the purpose of maintaining a union school to be kept for the benefit of the older children of such associated districts, if the inhabitants of each of said districts shall, at legal meetings called for that purpose, agree to form such union by a vote of two thirds of the legal voters of each district present and voting therein. Stat. 1839, c. 56, § 2.

2. Every union district thus formed shall be a body corporate, with the corporate powers of other school districts. in relation to prosecuting and defending suits at law, and holding real and personal property, and shall be called by

such name as said district at its first meeting shall determine. Stat. 1838, c. 189, § 2.

3. The first meeting of such union district shall be called in such manner, and at such time and place, as may be agreed upon by the associated districts respectively, by a vote of the same, at the time of forming the union; and the union district may, from time to time thereafter, prescribe the mode of calling and warning the meetings thereof, in like manner as other school districts may do, and may also determine at what time its annual meetings shall be held. Ib. § 3.

4. Such union district, at the first meeting thereof, shall choose, by ballot, a clerk, who shall be sworn in the same manner and shall perform the same duties as are prescribed in relation to the clerks of other school districts, and shall hold his office until another shall be chosen in his stead. Ib. § 4.

5. Such union district may, at any legal meeting called for that purpose, raise money for erecting, purchasing, renting and repairing any building to be used as a school house for the union school aforesaid, and purchasing.or renting land for the use and accommodation thereof; also, for purchasing fuel, furniture, and other necessary articles for the use of said school, and in assessing and collecting a tax or taxes for the above purposes, the like proceedings shall be had as are prescribed by law for other school districts; said district may also determine where said school house shall stand, and in case the location thereof should not be so determined by said district, the same shall be referred to the selectmen of the town, in the same manner as is provided in the case of other districts; said district may choose any committee to carry into effect the provisions aforesaid. 1b. § 5.

6. The prudential committees of the respective districts, forming the union district, shall, together, constitute the

prudential committee of said district, who shall have all the powers, and discharge all the duties, in relation to said school and the school house of said district, as are prescribed to other prudential committees in relation to the schools and school houses in their respective districts. Ib. § 6.

7. The prudential committee of the union district shall also determine the ages and qualifications of the children of the associated districts, who may attend the union school, and shall also determine what proportion of the money, raised and appropriated by the town for each of the districts composing the union district, shall be appropriated and expended in paying the instructor or instructors of the union school; subject, however, in both the above cases, and in all other matters relating to said school, to any vote, of said union district that may be passed at any legal meeting thereof; provided, however, that the schools in each of the associated districts shall continue to be maintained in the same manner as if this act had not been passed. Ib. § 7.

8. The school committee of the town in which such union district may be located, shall have the same powers, and perform the same duties, in relation to such union school, as are prescribed to them in relation to other district schools. Ib. § 8.

VI. HIGH SCHOOL DISTRICTS.

1. Adjacent towns may unite to form a high school district.

2. School committees from such towns to elect one from each board to form the committee for such school

3. Such committee to determine the location of the school-house, &c. 4. Towns to be assessed for penses according to their proportion of the county tax.

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1. Any two adjacent towns, not having more than two thousand inhabitants each, may form one high school district for establishing such a school as is contemplated in

the fifth section of the twenty-third chapter of the revised statutes, whenever a majority of the citizens of each town, in meetings called for that purpose shall so determine. Stat. 1848, c. 279, § 1.

2. The school committees of the two towns so united, shall elect one from each of their respective boards, and the two so elected shall form the committee for the management and control of such school, with all the powers conferred upon school committees and prudential committees. 1b. § 2.

3. The committee provided for in the foregoing section, shall determine the location of such school house as shall be authorized to be built by the towns forming such district, or authorize the location of such school alternately in the two towns, whenever the towns shall not determine to erect a house for its permanent location. Ib. § 3.

4. In the erection of any schoolhouse, for the permanent location of such school, and in the support and maintenance of the same, and in all incidental expenses attending the same, the proportions to be paid by each town, unless otherwise agreed upon, shall be according to the proportions of such towns in the county tax. Ib. § 4.

VII. CONTIGUOUS SCHOOL DISTRICTS IN ADJOINING

TOWNS.

1. Contiguous districts of adjoining towns, may unite themselves into one. 2. No such union to be formed without consent of the districts and towns.

3. United districts may again be separated.

4. First and other meetings of united districts, how called.

6. Moneys raised, to be in proportion, &c.

7. Moneys to be assessed by assessors of respective towns.

8. School committee of adjoining towns, to officiate alternately, &c.

9. Children living far from school in town of residence may attend school in adjoining town, on such

5. Prudential committee to be chosen. terms, &c.

1. Where two or more contiguous school districts, in adjoining towns, are too small to maintain schools advantageously in each, such districts may, if they see fit, unite and