2028

KENT COUNTY.

time and place for the said district meeting, notifying the white
male inhabitants, subject in any manner by this or other laws
to school tax or charge, residing in such district as aforesaid,
by public advertisement to be set up in at least three of the
most public places of said district, at least six days before the
time of such meeting, and in case such notice shall not be
given as aforesaid, or the inhabitants of such district when so

On failure
to renew.

notified, shall neglect or refuse to assemble, or form a district
meeting in pursuance of such notice, or in case any district
having been formed or organized in pursuance of such notice,
shall in the opinion of the trustees or trustee be dissolved by
adjournment without day, or from any other cause whatever, it
shall and may be lawful for the trustees aforesaid, or any one
of them at any time thereafter, to renew such notice, and when
so assembled in district meeting, it shall and may be lawful for
them, or a majority of such of them, as shall be present at such

Power to
adjourn.

meeting, to adjourn to any other time or place, and at any such
district meeting, it shall and may lawful for them, or a majority
of such of them, as may be present as aforesaid, to adjourn from
time to time as occasion may require, to fix on a time and place
for holding their future annual meetings, which meetings they
are hereby authorized and required to hold, to choose one dis-

Choose
clerk.
Trustees.
District
collector.
Site of
school-
house.
Tax.

trict clerk to keep the records and proceedings of such meet-
ings, also three trustees to manage the concerns of such dis-
trict, and one district collector, also to designate a site for their
school-house, to vote a tax on the taxable inhabitants, residents
and non-residents of such district, as they or a majority of such
of them, as shall be present as aforesaid, shall deem sufficient to
purchase a suitable site for the school-house, and to build and
keep in repair such school-house, and to purchase books, sta-
tionery, fuel and other appendages, and to repeal, alter, regu-
late and modify all such proceedings, or any part thereof, from
time to time as occasion may require, and it shall and may be

Power to
call special
meetings.
Notice.

lawful for the trustees of any school districts or any one of
them, to call special meetings of the said inhabitants of such
districts whenever it may be deemed necessary, notice thereof
being given, at least six days before said meeting, and the pro-

Informal
proceed-
ings.

ceedings of any meeting called by the trustee or trustees, or
taxable inhabitants, shall not be set aside or deemed illegal for
want of notice, or for want of regular and formal adjournment
in the proceedings of any primary or other meeting of said in-
habitants or trustees, unless it plainly appears that by such
defect or informality, some undue advantage was intended to be
taken of the white male taxable voters of the district.

Eligibility
of voters.

SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That all white male taxable in-
habitants residing in the county, and owning real or personal
estate in more school districts than one, shall be permitted to