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CHAP. LXXXI.] district meeting, lawfully assembled, shall have power: 1. To appoint a chairman to preside at said meeting in the absence of the director. 2. To adjourn from time to time. 3. To choose a director, clerk, and treasurer, who shall possess the qualifications of voters as prescribed in the next section of this act, at the first and each annual meeting thereafter. 4. To designate by vote a site for a district school-house. 5. To vote a tax annually, not exceeding one half of one per cent. on taxable property in the district, as the meeting shall deem sufficient to purchase or lease a site: Provided, When not included within the limits of an incorporated town or village, said site shall not contain less than one acre, and to build, hire, or purchase such school-house, and to keep in repair and furnish the same, with the necessary fuel and appendages. 6. To vote a district tax annually, not exceeding one fourth of one per cent. on the taxable property in the district for the pay of teachers' wages in the district. 7. To authorize and direct the sale of any school-house, site, or other property belonging to the district, when the same shall no longer be needful for the use of the district. 8. To vote such tax as may be necessary to furnish the school-house with blackboards, outline maps, and apparatus necessary for illustrating the principles of science, or to discharge any debts or liabilities of the district, lawfully incurred: Provided, The said tax shall not exceed one fourth of one per cent. per annum. 9. To give such direction and make such provision as may be deemed necessary in relation to the prosecution or defence of any suit or proceeding in which the district may be a party. 10. To alter or repeal their proceedings from time to time as occasion may require, and to do any other business contemplated in this act.

. 13. The following persons shall be entitled to vote at any district meeting: all persons possessing the qualifications of electors, as defined by the act organizing this territory, and the laws of said territory, and who shall be residents of the district at the time of offering to vote at such election.

. 14. If any person offering to vote at a school-district meeting shall be challenged as unqualified by any legal voter, the chairman presiding shall declare to the person challenged the qualifications of a voter, and if such challenge be not