"that a tax of 1 cent on the dollar on the list of 1829 be laid to defray the expense of repairs on said school."

    The collector of the school bills for that year, Bennet Tenny, was excused, and N. J. Wilcoxson was appointed to collect the tax. Wilcoxson had been a teacher in the first district school, but at the time of this meeting was the owner of a private school in that district
    However, by 1832, the school house needed more repairs and the committee voted another tax of one cent on the dollar. The measure appears to have met with some opposition, as a few weeks later, a subsequent meeting rescinded the vote which imposed the tax, and then voted to raise the tax to five cents on the dollar.
    From the minutes, it becomes apparent that the school committee encountered its share of difficulties. In 1834 a special committee of Nathan J. Wilcoxson, Nathan Mansfield and Normand A. Bidwell was appointed to investigate the cause or causes of an incident where vandals, "overturned the back house."
    By 1837, the school committee appears to have been in financial straits, as it was voted that the bills now due would be added to the cost of building or repairing the schoolhouse. But later that year, the committee decided that they could only afford to repair the existing building.
    A committee of repairs was appointed, with the specific instructions to "build a necessary or back house with two apartments."
    When the work on school repairs and the necessary was completed, it was voted to lay a tax of ten cents on the dollar to pay for the costs. However, it appears from subsequent records that the work was not done, and for years the district annually voted to repair the school and lay a tax, and every year, shortly after the vote was taken, another meeting was held and the original vote rescinded. It was some time before the school was suitably repaired.
    In 1853, the district committee voted,

"that in the Warning of the Annual Meeting of the Oxford School Society the committee make suggestions of an arrangement by which scholars from any district in said society may attend the school of higher order and yet have the benefit of the public money. Such suggestion to be voted upon at the Annual meeting."

    If the above suggestion was made in reference to an existing school is not indicated from the school committee minutes, but a year later that First District voted to establish a high school.
    Voted,