School District No. 7 v. Currier

A school district cannot, by vote, deprive the prudential committee of the power to provide board for teachers.

Assumpsit, submitted upon the following agreed statement of facts : At the annual meeting of said district in March, 1862, after the defendant had been elected and qualified as prudential committee for the ensuing year, and while he was taking part in the meeting, and without his dissent, it was voted to put up the board of the teachers for that year at auction, and it was struck off, at ninety-five cents per week, to one Sargent, a citizen of the district, and a responsible and proper person. The defendant hired his own daughter to teach the summer school, and refused to let the teachers board with Sargent, but boarded them himself, and took therefor, from the school money in his hands, one dollar and fifty cents per week. At the annual meeting of the district in March, 1863, the defendant made a report of his expenditures, which report the district refused to accept. This action was brought to recover the money retained by him for the board of the teachers.