IV.  To make out all district taxes and issue a warrant for their collection, etc., etc.

Clerk.

I. To record the proceedings of the district.

II.  To give notice according to law of annual and special meetings.

III.  To notify each person elected or appointed to office, and also to report their names and post-office address to the town clerk.

IV.  To notify the trustees of every resignation accepted by the supervisor.

V. To keep and preserve all books, records and papers belonging to his office, and to deliver the same to his successor, etc, etc,

Collector.

I. To collect all district taxes made out by trustees and placed in his hands.

II To pay out the money as directed by their order.

Librarian.

To have charge and supervision of the school district library.

Q. What is the salary of these officers and how paid?

A. The collector only is entitled to pay; he receives one per cent. on all moneys collected during the first fourteen days after advertising; after that time five per cent.

Q. How shall we find hereafter that officers are paid?

A. Some are paid a salary; some by the day; some by a fee; some by a per cent.

Q. What is meant by a salary? a fee? a per cent?

Q. How can a school district having three trustees change to one trustee?

Q. Can a district having a sole trustee change back and legally elect three?

[Note—­All questions unanswered here, should be studied by teachers very carefully, and the correct answers obtained. they should also introduce many others that will be suggested by the lesson.]

III.—­THE TOWN.

Q. What is a town?

Q. How many towns in your county?

Q. How many towns in New York State?

Q. What are the names of the officers in a town, the number of officials in each, and their terms of office?

A. I. One supervisor, elected for one year.

II.  One town clerk, elected for one year.

III.  Four justices of the peace, elected for four years.

IV.  Three assessors, elected for three years.

V. One or three highway commissioners, as the electors may determine; if one be elected, the term is one year; if three, the term is three years.

VI.  One or two overseers of the poor, as the electors may determine; term one year.

VII.  One collector, elected for one year.

VIII.  Constables, not to exceed five; term one year.

IX.  One game constable; term one year.

X. Three town-auditors; term one year.

XI.  Three excise commissioners; term three years.

XII.  Three inspectors of election; term one year; and in some villages and cities a sealer of weights and measures.