Saloons and schoolhouses.

Districts may tablish high schools.

Town must maintain.

Discontinuance such schools.

No license shall be granted for the 95:9, laws 1903. traffic in liquor in any building which shall be on the same street or avenue within two hundred feet of a building occupied exclusively as a church or schoolhouse, the measurements to be taken in a straight line from the center of the nearest entrance to the building used for such church or school, to the center of the nearest entrance to the place in which the traffic in liquor is desired to be carried on, or in any location where the traffic shall be deemed by said board of license commissioners detrimental to the public welfare, provided, that this restriction shall not apply to hotels or drug stores used as such on the first day of January, 1903.

X.

HIGH SCHOOLS.

es- 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.

of

It shall be the duty of any town in 72, laws 1905. which there is a high school, established

by vote of the town, to raise and appro-
priate each year sufficient money to prop-
erly maintain such school.

No high school established by a vote 20, laws 1905.
of a town shall be discontinued, or the
location thereof be changed, except by
the superior court, on petition of the

Adjoining districts may make contracts for estab

school.

school board of the town district in which
it is located, after such notice as the
court may order, if it shall appear that
the educational interests of the town
district require such discontinuance or
change.

Two or more adjoining districts in the P. S. 89:10.
same or different towns may make con-
lishing joint high tracts 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.

Any school district may contract with P. S. 89:11, as amended by chapan academy, seminary, or other literary ter 137, laws of institution located within its limits or 1911.

in its immediate vicinity, for furnishing
instruction to its scholars; and the school
money may be used to carry the contract
into effect; provided, however, that the
superintendent of public instruction shall
have full power and authority to termi-
nate such contracts whenever in his judg
ment the educational interests of the
districts so require.

Whenever any school district organized 64:1, laws 1891.
under a special act of the legislature
shall vote to abolish such district and to
unite with the town district, if said town
district shall vote to receive said special
district, if said special district has for the
five years next preceding such vote main-
tained a high school, it shall be incum-

Towns must main

bent 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 previously main-
tained therein by such special 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. tain such schools. trict to raise and appropriate each year thereafter sufficient money in addition

Discontinuance of such schools.

Penalty.

Towns not maintaining high schools must pay tuition.

to the school money which the town in
which it is situated may raise, to properly
maintain such high school, or schools, as
may be established under the preceding
section.

Any high school hereby established may 64:3, laws 1891.
be discontinued, or the location thereof
changed, by the supreme court, on peti-
tion of the school board of the town dis-
trict in which it is located, after such
notice as the court may order, if it shall
appear that the educational interests of
the town district require such discon-
tinuance or change.

Any town district failing to comply 64:4, laws 1891. with the provisions of this act, or any

of them, shall be fined for such neglect.

118, laws 1903.

Any town not maintaining a high 96:1, laws 1901, school or school of corresponding grade as amended by shall pay for the tuition of any child who with parents or guardian resides in said town and who attends a high school or academy in the same or another town or city in this state, and the parent or guardian of such child shall notify the

Liability for tuition.

Rebate from state

school board of the district in which he
resides of the high school or academy
which he has determined to attend; pro-
vided, however, that no town shall be
liable for tuition of a child in any school,
in excess of the average cost per child
of instruction for the regularly employed
teachers of that school and the cost of
text-books, supplies, and apparatus dur-
ing the school year preceding, nor in
any case, shall the town be liable for
tuition for any child in excess of forty
dollars per year.

If any town in which a high school or
school of corresponding grade is not
maintained neglects or refuses to pay for

tuition as provided in the preceding sec- 96:2, laws 1901.
tion, such town shall be liable therefor
to the parent or guardian of the child
furnished with such tuition, if the parent
or guardian has paid the same, or to the
town or city furnishing the same in an
action of contract.

[Such sum as may be needed] shall 96:3, laws 1901, in certain cases. be appropriated annually from the state as amended by 89,

treasury for the payment of tuition in
high schools and academies, to be paid
by the state treasurer in the month of
December of each year to the treasurers
of such towns as are entitled, and in
such manner as is hereinafter provided,
upon a sworn certificate of the superin-
tendent of public instruction of the sums
due.

Towns whose rate of taxation for
school purposes in any year is $3.50 or
more on $1,000, and whose average rate
of taxation for all purposes for five

laws 1905.

Definition of high school.

years next preceding is $16.50 or more
on $1,000, shall receive a share of said
appropriation as follows:

If the tax rate is from $16.50 to
$17.49, one tenth of the tuition paid.

If the tax rate is from $17.50 to $18.49, two tenths of the tuition paid.

If the tax rate is from $18.50 to
$19.49, three tenths of the tuition paid.

If the tax rate is from $19.50 to
$20.49, four tenths of the tuition paid.
If the tax rate is from $20.50 to
$21.49, five tenths of the tuition paid.

If the tax rate is from $21.50 to
$22.49, six tenths of the tuition paid.

If the tax rate is from $22.50 to $23.49, seven tenths of the tuition paid.

If the tax rate is from $23.50 to $24.49, eight tenths of the tuition paid. If the tax rate is from $24.50 to $25.49, nine tenths of the tuition paid.

and 118, laws

Over $25.49, the whole of such tuition. By the term "high school" or "acad- 96:4, laws 1901, emy,'' as used in this act, is understood as amended by 31 a school having at least one course of not 1903, and 19, less than four years, properly equipped laws 1905. and teaching such subjects as are required for admission to college, technical school, and normal school, including reasonable instruction in the constitution of the United States and in the constitution of New Hampshire, such high school or academy to be approved by the state superintendent of public instruction as complying with the requirements of this section. And said superintendent is auApproval by su- thorized to approve a school maintaining perintendent of public instruction. any part of such course for the part so

maintained.