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XLVII. In case the said Board shall order,‘debtor.,by one of the} Trusteesaor some party a new election of Trustees, a day, hour and‘autliorizcd by a majority of said Trustees in place shall be named in such order for that writing, to collect thc.same, and produced to

urpose,’and a copy thereof shall be posted on'the debtor, then and in every such case, the the schoolhouse of' the District, at least sir; said Trustees or any one or. more of them, or days before the day so named, and the inhabl- such other person as the majority of them may tants, who shall thereupon assemble, shall appoint, and in the name of any one or more then and there electthe' necessary number of I of the said Trustees, may sue the debtor before Trustees,who, on beingeonfirmed by the Board any Court for the recovery of small debts, of Education, shall be deemed to be in office or Justice of the Peace, by summons or other- until the first day Of J 1113‘ next, after the dflte ; wise, under such regulations as may at the time Of $11911 Election, 01' until some DOW election'be by law prescribed for the recovery of small duly authorized shall take place. debts. And it shall be lawful at the hearing - ' ' . of such cases for the defendant, if he shall see

.- _ i. ‘ r _ _ , . . e give notice 0 s in en ion so 0 o in wri - $0.1”th .l nftue; Of éhe Lends 138$??? 11} ing, to the Trustee or Trustees, or other person £13610: .elca Eeéfo *8 glpfouvue 133133631, in whose name the summons shall have been b11ij C ’1_ncani.t $311)”? 1 or ,hD’t‘ taken out, within twenty-four hours after the

8 Ole an} . om ’ u .u‘m ’ 01 persom “ a :0 serving of the same ; and if he shall so plead, mm" a certificate Stating the fads 0f well am. then it shall be lawful for the said Court for the Egnfigfitt’ggniigfi fig: secggctlargnodf recovery of small de ‘ts, or Justice of the Peace ‘ . ‘ . “fl. * “a g, . . 7‘ . ' before whom the summons shall be returnable, to prune facze evidence of such appomtment in 5 p ., . . , . _ hear such ev idence as may be adduced by either all matters and questions touching the School - -

.fi ,. ‘ . i . v ; 1 party, and to yary the amount of rate, and make District or the School, iespectinor when such . ..

. a _r - ’5’ . . , an order for such amount of payment as Justice appomtment shall have been made, or in anym I. refine Prod 10 d m _Orth 1 H H t.f a manner in which such appointments shall come a) > L1 ' ,. L' 1‘ e e”°’ ‘m 1 19 in question. " ‘ defendant making sucii piea,_sliall haye at any

gtime tlieretofore acquiesced 1n , the Justice or

XLIX. Every Board of Trustees of School lequality of such rate, by having on occasion of Districts, appointed under, or by virtue of the fany former assessment, paid [his proportion or Laws heretofore in force, or to be appointedgquota thereto,.0r any part thereof at a similar under this Act, shall keep a book or record in rate or proportion, then such Small Debt Court which their proceedings shall be entered, andlor Justice 0f the Peace, Shall not permit the

the minutes of each appointment hereafter to be made of Trustees in any District after their election as aforesaid, and their names shall be entered and signed by the chairman of the meeting of inhabitants at which such Trustees shall have been elected. In such book or re- cord, which shall afterwards be 'so kept by the Trustees as aforesaid, and when so signed, such appointment shall be held and be deemed 'to

same to be heard, or any evidence connected therewith to be adduced, but shall order the reasonable} costs incurred by the plaintiff or plaintiffs, to be paid by the defendant.

L. The book or record to be kept by the Trustees of the several school districts consti- tuted under the several laws. heretofore in force,—-or this act-and signed by the persons

be good and valid, and minutes of future meet- ings and proceedings,elections and re-elections,

and in manner mentioned, and set forth in the last preceding section, shall be good and

shall be entered therein signed by any three of prime facz'e evidence‘of the truth of all state- the Trustees for the time being, and the par-gments, minutes, matters, and things therein ticulars of all assessments made by any such 1 contained and set forth in anv Courtrof Law or Trustees, shall be also duly entered and signed gEquity. or before any Court. tribunal, or per- by any three of them, and the said book ortsons whatsoever, 'whether such statements. register shall be open to the inspection of alliminutes,» matters. or things, shall relate to resident householders of the District, and theémeetings of the inhabitants, the appointment school Visitor of the County, and if any such or election of Trustees, or re-elections thereof: assessment shall not be paid by any party liable assessments upon the Inhabitants, or other to pay the same within ten days after ademand;proceedings whatsoever of such Trustees. and thereof made upon. or at the residence of the'of the regularity and correctness of all acts,