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36 shall deem necessary in relation to the prosecution or defense of any suit or proceeding in which the district may be a party or interested.

10. To appoint, as in their discretion it may be necessary, a building committee to perform such duties in supervising the work of building a school house as they, by vote, may direct.

11. At the first and the annual meetings only, to determine the length of time a school shall be taught in their district during the ensuing year, which shall not be less than nine months in districts having eight hundred children over five and under twenty years of age, and not less than five months in all other districts, on pain of forfeiture of their share of the primary school interest fund (Act 15, 1895). But in case such matters shall not be determined at the first or annual meetings, the district board shall determine the same; and in case the district fails to vote for at least the minimum length required herein, the district board shall make provisions for said minimum length of school.

12. To appropriate any surplus moneys arising from the one mill tax (after having maintained a school in the district at least eight months in the school year), for the purpose of purchasing and enlarging school sites, or for building or repairing school houses, or for purchasing library books, globes, maps, and other school apparatus, or for any incidental expenses of the school (5053).

13. By a two-thirds vote of the qualified electors present at any annual meeting or a special meeting called for that purpose, to borrow money and issue bonds to pay for a school-house site or sites, and to erect and furnish school building (5103).

14. To decide by a two-thirds vote of the tax-paying voters of the district, to use money for some purpose other than that for which it was raised (5063).