In Re School-Law Manual

Chapter 144 of Laws of 1885, entitled “ Joint resolution providing for the appointment of a commissioner to revise, codify, and amend the statute laws of the state relating to schools,” authorized the governor, with the advice of the council, to appoint a commissioner “ to compile the public statutes of this state relating to schools, * * * and frame rules and forms of proceeding in towns under said statutes, which rules and forms, when approved by the supreme court or a majority of the judges thereof, shall be deemed valid and sufficient.” The rules and forms drawn by the commissioner have…