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Rh and no two or more districts can be consolidated without the consent of a majority of the resident taxpayers of each district (5041).

The inspectors have the right to detach such territory as they see fit (except as stated above), unless such action would practically destroy the district (67 Mich. 601); but they have no authority to divide up the district and destroy it without the consent of a majority of the resident taxpayers; nor can they destroy it by cutting it up into pieces, and attaching all the territory to other districts without such consent (71 Mich. 87).

The inspectors may attach to a school district any person residing in a township and not in any organized district, at his request; and, for all district purposes, except raising a tax for building a school house, such person is considered as residing in such district; but when set off to a new district, no sum is raised for such person as his proportion of the district property (5042).

In all cases where an alteration of the boundaries of a school district is made, the township clerk is required within ten days to deliver to the director of each district affected by the alteration, a notice in writing, setting forth the action of the inspectors and defining the alterations that have been made (5043).

When a new district is formed in whole or in part, from one or more districts possessed of a school house or entitled to other property, the inspectors, at the time of forming such new district or as soon thereafter as may be, ascertain and determine the amount justly due to such new district from any district out of which it may have been in whole or in part formed, as the proportion of such new district, of the value of the school house and other property belonging to the former district at the time of such division; and whenever, by the division of any district, the school house or site thereof is no longer conveniently located for school purposes and is not desired for use by