Education Acts Compilation.

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List of nominations. ibid, sec. 7 Proceedings at ™ e^mg ' flections" 88 at ibid sec. 9

Proceedings at meeting. Ibid. sec. 8

Proceedings at elections. [bid, sec. 9

the purpose of electing not less than five nor more than nine resident householders to forrii the Committee for such district: the hour and place for such meeting to be fixed by the Board. Where the average attendance of any school or schools under the Committee of a school district has not for the last preceding school year exceeded twenty 5 five children, the Board shall call on the electors to nominate and elect a Committee of five members; where the average attendance has exceeded twenty-five and has not exceeded two hundred, the Board shall call for the nomination and election of a Committee of seven members; and where the number of children in average attendance 10 has exceeded two hundred, the Board shall call for the nomination and election of a Committee of nine members. The quorum of such Committee respectively shall be as follows, that is to say : Three for a Committee of five, four for a Committee of seven, and five for a Committee of nine, and no business shall be transacted at any 15 meeting unless there be a quorum present thereat. 106. (1.) In the notice appointing the time and place for holdtne annua l meeting of householders, the Board shall call upon the householders in each district to send in writing, by post or delivery so as to be delivered to the respective Chairmen of the several 20 School Committees not later than eight o'clock in the evening of the third Monday in April, the names of persons, being resident householders, nominated by them for election to serve upon the Committee for the year next ensuing. (2.) Each nomination shall be signed by the proposer and by the 25 candidate, and shall be in the form set forth in the Ninth Schedule hereto or to the effect thereof. 107. The Chairman of every Committee shall cause a list of all candidates so nominated to be displayed upon the outer door of every schoolhouse within the school district under the control of such Com- 30 mittee, on the day next after the third Monday in April, or as soon thereafter as may be. 108. (1.) At each annual meeting a Chairman shall be chosen, and the Committee shall give a full report of its proceedings for the year ending on the thirty-first day of March preceding such annual 35 meeting, and the householders present shall proceed to elect a new Committee for the current year, as hereinafter provided, and may re-elect any of the persons going out of office, if duly qualified and nominated, to be members of such new Committee : Provided that any candidate nominated may withdraw from any contest at any 40 time previous to the ballot being taken, either verbally, or in writing signed by the candidate and witnessed by a householder, and delivered to such Chairman; in either of which cases he shall be deemed in future proceedings at such meeting not to have been nominated. 45 (2.) Art every annual meeting the Chairman shall have a deliberative vote and a casting-vote. 0 Notwithstanding anything contained in section one hundred and six of this Act, any householder present at the annual meeting may at such meeting nominate for election to serve on the 50 Committee any re a id°nt householder; and a resident householder nominated at the meeting, and, by word of mouth or by writing given

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