Jason Elmer Hammond

“ The statute and the courts have wisely declared that, however awkward and improper may have been such proceedings, a school district is deemed duly organized when any two of the officers elected at the first meeting have filed their acceptances in writing with the director, and the same have been recorded in the minutes of such first meeting. Every school district is presumed to be legally organized when it has exercised the franchises and privileges of a district for the term of two years ”

“ When a new district is formed in whole or in part, from one or more districts possessed of a school house or entitled to other property, the inspectors, at the time of forming such new district or as soon thereafter as may be, ascertain and determine the amount justly due to such new district from any district out of which it may have been in whole or in part formed, as the proportion of such new district, of the value of the school house and other property belonging to the former district at the time of such division ”

“ TRICTS more than one hundred children of school age, have published in the notices of the annual meetings of each district the intention to take such action and have, by a vote of two-thirds of the qualified voters attending the annual meetings in said districts, determined to unite for the purpose of establishing a graded school district, the school inspectors of the township or townships in which such districts may be situated are required, on being properly notified of such vote, to unite such districts and to appoint a time and place for a meeting of the new district. ”