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Rh and said inhabitant, when he has notified the qualified voters, indorses thereon a return, showing such notification with the date or dates thereof, and delivers such notice and return to the chairman of the meeting, to be by him delivered to the director chosen at such meeting, and by said director recorded at length as a part of the records of the district (5034).

A school district created by special legislative enactment, cannot be dissolved or changed by the school inspectors (17 Mich. 223).

In case the inhabitants of the district fail to organize as above indicated, the clerk shall give a new notice and the residents of the district shall proceed in the same manner as in case of first notice (5035).

Fractional districts are districts formed from territory taken from two or more adjoining townships. Such districts are formed by joint action of the township boards of inspectors of the townships interested. They are organized in the same manner as other primary school districts, and the officers report to the clerk of the township in which the school house is situated. The inspectors assign a number to each school district thus established (5036).

Any unorganized territory cannot be included in a school district and taxed for school purposes (45 Mich. TERRITORY, 559), unless at the request of the owner (5042).

The proceedings in the organization of school districts are many times informal and irregular. The statute and the courts have wisely declared that, however awkward and improper may have been such proceedings, a school district is deemed duly organized when any two of the officers elected at the first meeting have filed their acceptances in writing with the director, and the same have been recorded in the minutes of such first meeting. Every school district is presumed to be legally organized when it has exercised the franchises and privileges of a district for the term of