Maintenance of high schools in out the purposes of the trust under Any justice of the peace may, upon P. S. 89:26. Ident within the limits of the dissolved The records of dissolved school dis- P. S. 89:27. continued for any purpose shall be re- 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 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 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 Any offender against such by-laws, P. S. 93:7. 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. 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- The school board of such cities and 112:2, laws 1901. Nothing contained in this act shall 112:3, laws 1901. exempt any person from the require ments of chapter 93 of the Public |