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ORGANIZATION OF SCHOOL DISTRICTS.

Primary Schools. The original and fundamental school organization in Michigan is the district, which is established by authority of the township board of school inspectors. After a township has been organized, its territory shall be divided into school districts which shall not exceed nine sections of land in size and which may be altered from time to time in the discretion of the inspectors.

The statute directs that the territory of each district must be in as compact form as may be (5033). It is not essential that the territory of the maximum school district shall contain exactly nine full sections of land, but it must not contain more than 5,760 acres (75 Mich. 143).

After an organization has been effected by the inspectors, it is the duty of the clerk to deliver to a taxable inhabitant of the district a notice in writing of the formation of such district, describing its boundaries and specifying the time and place of the first meeting, which notice, with the fact of such delivery, is entered upon record by the clerk. The notice also directs such inhabitant to notify every qualified voter of such district, either personally or by leaving a written notice at his place of residence, of the time and place of said meeting, at least five days before the time appointed therefor; and it is the duty of such inhabitant to notify the qualified voters of said district accordingly: