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SPECIAL LAWS. 19
plied in accordance with the terms of this Act and the laws of the
State of Texas applicable thereto.
SEC. 8. That the several schools now located in the proposed district
be maintained at their present standards until such time as
the citizens in said districts vote to change them. And further that
the proposed district assume the outstanding bonded indebtedness of
the included districts.
SEC. 9. The fact that there exists an urgent necessity for the creation,
organization, control and maintenance of a public high school in
said 'Tehuacana Independent School District, the importance of this
Act to the people of the territory affected, who desire to organize
and equip said high school for the next scholastic year, and the
crowded condition of the calendar creates an imperative public necessity
and emergency requiring the constitutional rule that bills be
read on three several days in each House be suspended; and the said
rule is therefore suspended and that this Act take effect and be in
force from and after its passage, and it is so enacted.
[NOTE.-The enrolled bill shows that the foregoing Act passed the
Senate, yeas 27, nays 0; and passed the House, yeas 114, nays 0.]
Approved August 13, 1921.
Effective August 13, 1921.
CREATING MEXIA INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT IN
LIMESTONE COUNTY; DEFINING ITS BOUNDARIES.
S. B. No. 33.] CHAPTER 5.
An Act creating the Mexia Independent School District in Limestone
County, Texas; defining its boundaries; divesting the city of Mexia of
the control of its public schools and of its school property and vesting
the same in said independent School district and its board of trustees;
conferring upon said district and its board of trustees all the rights,
powers, privileges and duties now conferred and imposed by the General
Laws of Texas upon independent school districts and the board
of trustees thereof; authorizing the board of trustees of said district
to employ the city assessor and collector of the city of Mexia to assess
and collect any and all taxes that may be levied in said district; providing
for changes in the boundary lines of said district; declaring
that all taxes or bonds heretofore authorized by any former school district
included within the bounds thereof shall remain in full force and
effect; validating a bond election heretofore held within and for the
Mexia Independent School District; and declaring an emergency.
Be it enacted by the Legislatuire of the State of Texas:
SECTION 1. 'That the Mexia Independent School District is hereby
created and established in Limestone County, Texas, containing within
its limits the following described territory, to-wit:
Beginning at a point on the south line of the P. Varela Survey
in Limestone County, Texas, said line being the north line of the A.
Varela Survey, and said point being the S .W. corner of the Murphy
tract of land now owned by A. E. Humphreys; thence N. 35
W. 940 vrs. to the S. E. corner of R. Steel tract of land; thence
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Gammel, Hans Peter Mareus Neilsen. The Laws of Texas, 1921 [Volume 21], book, 1921; Austin, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth14933/m1/423/: accessed May 21, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; .