PHILIP F. THOMAS, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

1849.

said sum of two hundred dollars to aid in defraying the
expense and cost thereof, each district: school house shall
he located as near the centre of the district as the con-
venience of the scholars, and other circumstances, will
admit, and when once located, no school house shall be
removed or abandoned, unless, at a stated meeting of
the school voters, when they assemble to elect trustees
and other officers, two thirds of the said school voters
shrill so determine, and the hoard of education approve,
and each school district shall forever after keep its school
house, furniture and fixtures in good repair, at its own
proper cost and charge, and the trustees of each of said
school districts, and their successors, shall have charge
of said school buildings and fixtures, and shall from
time to time, order and direct such repairs as are ne-
cessary.

CHAP. 221.

SEC. 10. And be it enacted, That the trustees of the
said several school districts, and their successors, shall
he and they are hereby created, made and constituted
bodies politic and corporate, with power to prosecute
and defend in actions at law, to take and hold in fee
simple, or otherwise, property, real or personal, for the
use and support, of the schools of their respective dis-
tricts, with power also to levy and collect taxes for
school purposes within their respective districts, and to
appoint such officers and perform all such acts as are
necessary to carry such powers into execution.

Corporate
powers of dis-
trict trustees.

SEC. 11. And be it enacted, That at the first stated
meeting, in each school district, when the voters assem-
ble to choose trustees and other school officers, and at
every such meeting in the month of March, annually
thereafter, they shall determine what sum they will
raise in the district that year for school purposes, and
the chairman and secretary of the said meeting shall
immediately report the same to the board of education;

Voters of each
district to de-
termine what
sum they will
annually raise
for school pur-
poses.

provided, that it shall be necessary for each school dis-
trict to raise within itself at least the sum of fifty dollars
before it will be entitled to receive any contribution from
the board of education for the payment of its teacher
and for the purpose of raising the said sum of fifty dol-
lars, or such additional sum as for the purpose of en-
hancing the character and usefulness of their school
they may determine upon, by taxation if necessary, the
trustees of each of the said school districts may cause to
be made an assessment of all the real and personal pro-
perty in the said districts respectively, or, they may ob-
tain from the office of the commissioners of the said
county, a transcript of all the assessable property within
their respective district, and shall cause a record there-

Provisoes.