Page:1889 North Dakota Session Laws.pdf/182

 in each county which, at the taking effect of this act, is organized for school purposes under the district system, shall meet on the first Monday in May, 1890, at the place where the meetings of such commissioners are usually held, and shall re-arrange and establish the boundaries of the several school districts of the county as herein provided, to-wit:

1. Every civil township in the county, no part of which is included in a school district already organized, shall be formed into a single school district.

2. Every congressional township in the county, no part of which is included in a civil township, or in an organized school district, if it contains twelve or more persons of school age, shall be formed into a single school district.

3. All territory in a county situate in a civil township, part of which is organized into a school district or districts, or situate in a congressional township not included in a civil township, and a part of which is organized into a school district or districts, shall be annexed to and form a part of an organized school district or districts !ying wholly or in part in such civil or congressional township.

4. Each school district now organızed which has less than ten persons of school age residing therein, shall be annexed to and form a part of such adjacent school district or districts as shall be most convenient for such persons of 3chool age, when in the judgment of such commissioners and superintendent such annexation can be made without detriment to the schools or to the pupils residing in such districts.

5. The boundary lines of each school district which lies partly within two or more civil townships shall be so changed that such school district shall 1lie wholly within one civil township, so far as in the judgment of such commissioners and superintendent such change or changes can be made without detriment to the schools or to the pupils therein.

6. Such commissioners ,and superintendent shall make such changes generally in the boundary lines of the school districts of the county, not in their judgment detrimental to the interests of the schools of the county, as will reduce the number of school districts in the county, and form school districts not extending beyond the boundaries of the civil township.

§ 45. BOUNDARIES, HOW CHANGED IN FUTURE.] After the boundary lines of the several school districts in any of the said counties are rearranged and established as provided for in the last preceding section of this article, such boundary so established may be changed by the county commissioners and superintendent of schools of such county at any regular session of such commissioners upon a petition for such change signed by one-third of the voters residing in each district, whose boundaries will be affected by such change, if in the judgment of the commissioners and superintendent such change is for the best interests of the schools;