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28 the new district in which it may be situated, the school inspectors of the township in which such school house and site is located, may advertise and sell the same and apportion the proceeds of such sale, as also any moneys belonging to the district thus divided, among the several districts erected in whole or in part from the divided district.

Such proportion is ascertained and determined according to the value of the taxable property of the respective parts of such former district at the time of the division, by the best evidence in the power of the inspectors; and such amount of any debt due from the former district which would have been a charge upon the new had it remained in the former district, is deducted from such proportion: Provided, That no real estate thus set off, which has not been taxed for the purchase or building of such school house, shall be entitled to any portion thereof, nor be taken into account in such division of district property.

Graded Schools.

The term graded school as used in the laws of the state is sometimes confused with those schools which have, by authority of the school board and teacher, adopted a graded course of study according to the manual and course of study published by the Superintendent of Public Instruction. In using the term we refer exclusively to districts organized under the law for graded schools. All such schools are first organized as primary districts, and all graded schools, whether created under special acts or organized under general laws, are subject to the general primary school law, except in so far as the acts creating them or under which they are organized, are inconsistent with it (18 Mich. 400).

Any school district containing more than one hundred children of school age may organize as a graded district.