1887 public laws – Ch.424 Sec.3

If this act shall be ratified at the election authorized to be held under it, the school committee of said district shall consist of six members instead of three, as required by the general school law of the state, to be appointed by the county board of education: at their next meeting held after the election provided for in this act. The said school committee shall be divided by the said county board of education at the time of their appointment into three classes of two each. The term of office of the first class shall expire at the end of two years from the first Monday of September, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, and the term of office of the second class shall expire at the end of four years from the first Monday of September, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, and the term of office of the third class shall expire at the end of six years from the first Monday of September, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven. Whenever the term of office of any class shall expire as above provided their successors shall be appointed for a term of six years by the said county board of education. Whenever any vaeancy occurs in said committee except by expiration of the terms of office, the vacancy for the unexpired term of the member or members shall be filled by the said committee.