Cowgill v. Long

The 82d section of the “ Act to establish and maintain common schools,” approved February 12, 1849, provides : “ On the first Saturday of May next, and on the first Saturday of May annually thereafter, the inhabitants, legal voters of any school district in this State, may meet together at some convenient place in the district, for the purpose of voting for or against levying a tax for the support of common schools, for building and repairing school-houses, or for other school purposes.” It further provides, “ that if five of said inhabitants request it, the school directors shall call such…