of said meeting. If said meeting shall determine to establish a union free school in said districts as aforesaid, it shall be lawful for such meeting thereafter to proceed to the election of a board of education as provided in sections 301 and 302 of this chapter. 2 The school commissioner in whose district the union free school district is thus organized shall designate such district as union free school district number .... of the town of ... and the said board shall have the name and style of the board of education of (adding the designation aforesaid). 3 Copies of said request, notice of meeting, order of the Commissioner of Education directing some inhabitant to call said meeting, if any, and minutes of said meeting, duly certified by the chairman and clerk thereof, shall be transmitted and deposited, immediately after such meeting by one of such officers, one to and with the town clerk, one to and with the school commissioner in whose jurisdiction said districts are located, and one to and with the Commissioner of Education. 4 If at any such meeting, the question as to the establishment of a union free school shall not be decided in the affirmative, as aforesaid, then all further proceedings at such meeting, except a motion to reconsider or adjourn, shall be dispensed with, and no such meeting shall be again called within one year thereafter. 5 When any such meeting shall have established a union free school in said districts, such union free school district shall not be dissolved within the period of one year from the first Tuesday of August next after such meeting. § 146 Meeting to determine regarding reorganization as common school district. In any union free school district established under the laws of this State, and which shall have been established for the period of one year or more, it shall be the duty of the board of education, upon the application of fifteen resident taxpayers of such district, to call a special meeting in the manner prescribed by law, for the purpose of determining whether application shall be made in the manner hereinafter provided, for the dissolution of such union free school district, and for its reorganization as one or more common school districts. § 147 Result of vote for or against reorganization. 1 Whenever, at any such meeting called and held as aforesaid, it shall be determined by a majority vote of the legal voters present and voting, to be ascertained by taking and recording the ayes and noes, not to dissolve such union free school district, no other meeting for a similar purpose shall be held in said district within three years from the time the first meeting was held. 2 Whenever at any such meeting called and held as aforesaid it shall be determined by a two-thirds vote of the legal voters present and voting, to be ascertained by taking and recording the ayes and noes, to dissolve such union free school district, it shall be the duty of the board of education to present to the school commissioner of the commissioner district in which said union free school is situated, a certified copy of the call, notice and proceedings. If such school commissioner shall approve the proceedings of said meeting, he shall certify the same to the board of education. Such approval shall not take effect until the day preceding the first Tuesday of August next succeeding; but after that date such district shall cease to be a union free school district. § 148 Reversion to form of original school districts. If any union free school district dissolved under the foregoing provisions shall have been established by the consolidation of two or more districts, it shall be lawful for such school commissioner to order that its territory be divided into two or more districts, to correspond, so far as practicable, with the districts theretofore consolidated. § 149 School commissioner may require equality of partition. Such school commissioner may make his approval of the proceedings of any such meeting held as aforesaid conditional upon the payment, by the district which has been most greatly benefited by the consolidation in the way of buildings and other improvements to the other districts into which the said union free school district is divided, of such sum of money as he may deem equitable. § 150 Effect of veto by school commissioner regarding subsequent meeting. If such school commissioner shall not approve the proceedings of any such meeting, held as aforesaid, for the purpose of dissolving a union free school district, no other meeting shall be held in such district, for a similar purpose, within three years from the time the first meeting was held. § 151 Report of proceedings to Commissioner of Education. Whenever the proceedings of a meeting, held as aforesaid, for the purpose of dissolving a union free school district, shall have been approved by such school commissioner and shall have been certified by him to the board of education, it shall be the duty of the board of education of the district affected forthwith to file with the Commissioner of Education, copies of the call, notice, proceedings of the meeting, and the action taken by such school commissioner thereon. § 152 Distribution of moneys on dissolution. All moneys remaining in the hands of the treasurer of the union free school district when the order of dissolution shall take effect shall be apportioned equitably among the several districts into which such union free school district is divided, and shall be paid over to the collectors or treasurers of such districts when they shall have been elected and have qualified according to law. § 153 School property exempt from taxation. The grounds, buildings, furniture, books, apparatus and all other property of a school district shall not be subject to taxation for any purpose. § 154 Application of funds obtained from sale of school property. All moneys obtained from the sale of any school property authorized under the provisions of this chapter shall be applied for the benefit of the district as directed by the voters thereof in any annual or special meeting. ARTICLE 6 School Neighborhoods Section 170 Setting off school neighborhoods 171 Neighborhood meetings 172 Duties of neighborhood clerk and trustee § 170 Setting off school neighborhoods. Each school commissioner in respect to the territory within his district shall have power, with the approval of the Commissioner of Education, to set off by itself any neighborhood adjoining any other state of the union, where it shall be found most convenient for the inhabitants to send their children to a school in such adjoining state, and to deliver to the town clerk of the town in which it lies, in whole of in part, a description of each such separate neighborhood. He shall also prepare a notice, describing such neighborhood, and appointing a time and place for the first neighborhood meeting, and deliver such notice to a taxable inhabitant of such neighborhood. It shall be the duty of such inhabitant to notify every other inhabitant of the neighborhood, qualified to vote at the meeting, by reading the notice in his hearing, or, in case of his absence from home, by leaving a copy thereof, or so much thereof as relates to the time, place and object of the meeting, at the place of his abode, at least six days before the time of the meeting. In case such meeting shall not be held, and in the opinion of the school commissioner it shall be necessary to hold such meeting before the time herein fixed for the first annual meeting, he shall deliver another such notice to a taxable inhabitant of the neighborhood, who shall serve it as hereinbefore provided. § 171 Neighborhood meetings. The annual meeting of each neighborhood shall be held on the first Tuesday of August in each year, at the hour and place fixed by the last previous neighborhood meeting; or, if such hour and place has not been so fixed, then at the hour and place of such last meeting; or, if such place be no longer accessible, then at such other place as the trustee, or, if there be no trustee, the clerk, shall in the notices designate. The proceedings of no neighborhood meeting, annual or special shall be held illegal for want of a due notice to all the persons qualified to vote thereat, unless it shall appear that the omission to give such notice was wilful and fraudulent. The inhabitants of any neighborhood, entitled to vote, when assembled in any annual meeting or any special meeting called by the commissioner as above provided, shall have power, by a majority vote of those present, to appoint a chairman for the time being, and to choose a neighborhood clerk and one trustee, and to fill vacancies in office. The provisions of article 7 of this chapter, shall apply to and govern such meeting, so far as the same can in substance be applied to the proceedings; and the provisions of article 8 of this chapter shall apply to and govern the officers of such neighborhood, so far as the same can in substance be applied thereto. § 172 Duties of neighborhood clerk and trustee. The neighborhood clerk shall keep a record of the proceedings of his neighborhood, and of the reports of the trustees, and deliver the same to his successor. In case such neighborhood shall be annexed to a district within this State its records shall be filed in the office of the clerk of such district. The trustee shall, between the twenty-fifth day of July and the first day of August in every year, make his annual report to the school commissioner, and file it in the office of the clerk of the town of which the neighborhood is a part. Such report shall specify the whole amount of public moneys received during the year and from what public officer, and the manner in which it was expended; the whole number of such children as can be included in the district trustees' report residing in the neighborhood on the thirtieth day of August prior to the making of such report; and any other matters which the Commissioner of Education may require. ARTICLE 6-A. (Article added by L. 1913, ch. 176) Temporary School Districts Section 175 Establishment of temporary school districts 176 Organization of district; officers 177 Maintenance of schools; teachers 178 Payment of expenses; gifts and contributions § 175 Establishment of temporary school districts. Temporary school districts may be established outside of cities and union free school districts and public schools shall be maintained therein as hereinafter provided. Such districts may be established whenever any considerable number of persons shall have been congregated in camps or other places of temporary habitation, who are engaged in the construction of public works by, or under contract with, the State, or in the construction of public works or improvements by or under contract with any municipality. Such temporary districts shall be established by order of the district superintendent of schools of the supervisory district within which such camps or other places of temporary habitation are located, subject to the approval of the Commissioner of Education. Such order shall be filed in the State Education Department and if the public works or improvements are being constructed by a municipality, a copy thereof shall be filed in the office of the officer or board of the city under whose direction they are being constructed. When so established such districts shall be entitled to share in the apportionment of public money as in the case of other school districts, except that each district quota shall be one hundred and twenty-five dollars. The money so apportioned shall be paid to the treasurer of the district and be applied in the payment of teachers' salaries. [Added by L. 1913, ch. 176.] § 176 Organization of districts; officers. Each of such districts shall have a trustee who shall be appointed by the |