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Rh The vote may be taken at any school meeting properly called, and a two-thirds vote of the qualified voters is required (5132). The district voting to organize as a graded district, elects at such meeting aboard of trustees, and the time from the date of the meeting to the date of the next annual school meeting is reckoned as one year.

The authority to make changes in the boundaries of graded districts, is given to the board of inspectors with the following limitations:

No alteration can be made in the boundaries of any graded school district, without the consent of a majority of the trustees of said district, which consent must be spread upon the records of the district and placed on file in the office of the clerk of the board of school inspectors of the township or city to which the reports of said district are made (97 Mich. 127). Graded school districts are not restricted to nine sections of land (5135).

Whenever two or more contiguous districts having together more than one hundred children of school age, have published in the notices of the annual meetings of each district the intention to take such action and have, by a vote of two-thirds of the qualified voters attending the annual meetings in said districts, determined to unite for the purpose of establishing a graded school district, the school inspectors of the township or townships in which such districts may be situated are required, on being properly notified of such vote, to unite such districts and to appoint a time and place for a meeting of the new district. Three notices of the same must be posted in each of the districts so united at least five days before the time of such meeting. At this meeting the district elects a board of trustees and transacts the usual business of an annual school meeting (5135a).