Maintenance of high schools in

out the purposes of the trust under
which the funds are held.

Any justice of the peace may, upon P. S. 89:26.
application of three or more voters, resi-

Ident within the limits of the dissolved
district, call a meeting thereof in the
same manner as other school district
meetings are called, at which a moder-
ator, clerk, and agents may be chosen,
and any other business transacted for
the purposes mentioned in section 24 of
this chapter.

The records of dissolved school dis- P. S. 89:27.
tricts whose corporate existence is not

continued for any purpose shall be re-
turned by the clerks of such districts to
the town clerk's office for preservation
with the public records of the town.

Whenever any school district organ- 64:1, laws 1891. dissolved special ized under a special act of the legisla

districts.

ture shall vote to abolish such district
and to unite with the town district, if
Isaid town district shall vote to receive
said special district, if said special dis-
trict has for the five years next preced-
ing such vote maintained a high school,
it shall be incumbent on the town district
with which it unites to thereafter keep
and maintain within the limits of said
special district a high school for at least
thirty-four weeks in each year, and of
equal grade to that which had been pre-
viously maintained therein by such spe-
cial district, said high school to be open
to all scholars in the town district, of
suitable age and qualifications.

It shall be the duty of said town dis- 64:2, laws 1891. trict to raise and appropriate each year

Annexation of territory situate in one district to another district

for school purposes.

thereafter sufficient money in addition
to the school money which the town in
which it is situated may raise, to prop-
erly maintain such high school, or schools,
as may be established under the pre-
ceding section.

Any person interested in severing part 72:1, laws 1893. of any town therefrom and annexing it to another town, or school district therein, for school purposes, may apply therefor by petition to the selectmen of the town from which it is proposed to sever such territory, and to the selectmen of the town to which it is proposed to annex the

same.

It shall be the duty of said selectmen, 72:2, laws 1893. upon notice to such petitioners and to the school boards of the respective towns and school districts interested in the proposed transfer, to hear the parties, and determine whether the reasonable accommodation of such petitioners or others requires such transfer, and to make return of their findings to the clerks of their respective towns in writing within thirty days.

If a majority of each of said boards 72:3 laws 1898, of selectmen report in favor of such transfer, they shall sign a certificate of that fact, describing such territory, and stating that it is annexed to such adjoining town, or district therein for school purposes, which certificate shall be recorded by the town clerk of each town.

Any territory now or hereafter annexed 72:4, laws 1893. for school purposes to an adjoining town or school district therein, may, upon proceedings such as have been prescribed in

the foregoing sections of this act, be restored to the town or district from which

it has been severed.

The annexation of territory under this 72:5, laws 1893. act shall have the same force and validity

as if made by a special act of the legis

lature.

The selectmen and collector of any 72:6, laws 1893. town to which part of any other town is now or may hereafter be annexed for school purposes shall have the same powers and duties in respect to such annexed territory, of furnishing blank inventories and of assessing and collecting taxes for school purposes, and the inhabitants and owners thereof shall for such purposes be subject to the same liabilities, as if such territory were in the town to which it is or may be annexed.

laws 1897.

Section 6 of chapter 72 of the Ses 72:6, laws 1893, sion Laws of 1893 shall not apply to spe- as amended by 26, cial districts, but only to town districts, and all special taxes voted by said districts shall be assessed and collected in the same manner as they were assessed and collected prior to the enactment of said chapter 72.

The selectmen of any town, and the 72:7, laws 1893, school board of any high school or other as amended by 75, laws 1895. special district in the same town, may, upon petition of persons interested, after notice to the school board of the town school district of such town, and after hearing the parties, unite parts of either district to the other, a majority of the board of selectmen and a majority of the school board of such special district, and

Offense against by-laws.

District high school.

a majority of the school board of the
town school district concurring therein,
and their decision in writing being re-
corded on the town records.

Any offender against such by-laws, P. S. 93:7.
upon conviction, may be sentenced to
pay a fine and to be committed to the
Industrial School until it is paid or
he is otherwise discharged, or he may be
sentenced to the Industrial School for
a term not exceeding one year.

The court or justice imposing a fine P. S. 93:8. upon any such offender may remit it upon proof that he is unable to pay it, and has no parent, guardian, or person chargeable with his support, able to pay it, and may discharge him from the Industrial School if he has been committed there for nonpayment thereof.

Any such offender so convicted may P. S. 93:9. give bond to the district in the penal sum of twenty-five dollars, with sufficient sureties, approved by the court or justice before whom he was convicted, conditioned to attend regularly some school kept in the district for one term next ensuing, to comply with the regulations thereof, and to be obedient and respectful to the teacher; and his fine may thereupon be remitted by such court or justice upon payment of the costs.

Any school district may, by vote or P. S. 89:9. by-law, establish and maintain a high school in which the higher English branches of education and the Latin, Greek, and modern languages may be taught.

Joint schools of two or more districts.

Evening schools.

Two or more adjoining districts in P. S. 89:10.
the same or different towns may make
contracts with each other for establishing
and maintaining jointly a high or other
public school for the benefit of their
scholars, and may raise and appropriate
money to carry the contracts into effect;
and their school boards, acting jointly or
otherwise, shall have such authority and
perform such duties in relation to
schools so maintained as may be pro-
vided for in the contracts.

Upon petition of five per cent. of the 112:1, laws 1901. legal voters of any city or town having

more than five thousand inhabitants, ac-
cording to the latest United States cen-
sus, said city or town shall establish and
maintain, in addition to the schools re-
quired by the law to be maintained there-
in, evening schools for the instruction of
persons over fourteen years of age in
such branches of learning and art as the
school board shall deem expedient.

The school board of such cities and 112:2, laws 1901.
towns shall have the same superintend-
ence over such evening schools as they
have over other schools, and may de-
termine the term or terms of time in each
year and the hours of the evening dur-
ing which such schools shall be kept, and
may make such regulations as to attend-
ance at such schools as they may deem
expedient.

Nothing contained in this act shall 112:3, laws 1901. exempt any person from the require

ments of chapter 93 of the Public
Statutes.