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456 withdrawn, the chairman, who is hereby authorized, shall tender to the person offering to vote, the following oath or affirmation: "You do solemnly swear (or affirm) that you are an actual resident of this school district, and that you are qualified by law to vote at this meeting." Any person, taking such oath or affirmation, shall be entitled to vote on all questions voted upon at such meeting.

. 15. Every school district shall be deemed duly organized when the officers constituting the district board shall be elected; they shall signify their acceptance to the county superintendent, in writing, which he shall file in his office. Every person duly elected to the office of director, clerk, or treasurer of any school district, who shall refuse or neglect, without sufficient cause, to accept of such office and serve therein, or who, having entered upon the duties of his office, shall neglect or refuse to perform any duty required of him by the provisions of this act, shall forfeit the sum of ten dollars.

. 16. The officers of each school district shall be a director, clerk, and treasurer, who shall constitute the district board, and who shall hold their respective offices until the annual meeting next following their election or appointment, and until their successors are elected and qualified.

. 17. Every school district, organized in pursuance of this act, shall be a body corporate, and shall possess the usual powers of a corporation for public purposes, by the name and style of school district No. (such a number as may be designated by the county commissioners), county (the name of the county in which the district is situated), Territory of Dakota, and in that name may sue and be sued, and be capable of contracting and being contracted with, and holding such real or personal estate as it may come in possession of by will or otherwise, or as is authorized to be purchased by the provisions of this act.

. 18. An annual meeting of each school district shall be held on the last Saturday of September of each year, at such hour as the board of directors shall name. Special meetings may be called by any member of the district board, or by any five legal voters, but notice of such special meeting, stating the purposes for which it is called, shall be posted in