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Rh 4. To designate a site or such number of sites as maybe desired for school houses, and to change the same when necessary.

5. To direct the purchasing or leasing of a site or sites, lawfully determined upon; also the building, hiring, or purchasing of a school house or houses, or the enlarging of a site or sites previously established.

6. To vote such tax as the meeting may deem sufficient for purchasing or leasing a site or sites, or for building, or for hiring or purchasing a school house or houses; but the amount of taxes to be raised in any district for the purpose of purchasing or building a school house or houses in the same year that any bonded indebtedness is incurred, shall not exceed, in districts containing less than ten children between the ages of five and twenty years, two hundred and fifty dollars; in districts having between ten and thirty children of like age, it shall not exceed five hundred dollars; and in districts having between thirty and fifty children of like age, it shall not exceed one thousand dollars. (See also Chap. X.)

7. To impose such tax as shall be necessary to keep the school house or houses in repair, and to provide the necessary appendages and school apparatus; in districts having district libraries, to provide for the support of the same, and to pay and discharge any debts or liabilities of the district lawfully incurred, and also to pay for the services of any district officer. The tax herein authorized to be voted shall not exceed one-half the amount which the district is authorized to raise for building school houses. (See also Chap. X.)

8. To authorize and direct the sale of any school house, site, building, or other property belonging to the district, when the same shall no longer be needed for the use of the district.

9. To give such directions and make such provisions as they