The Laws of Texas, 1925 [Volume 23] Page: 449 of 822
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SPECIAL LAWS. 437
CREATING AND ESTABLISHING THE BATSON INDEPENDENT
SCHOOL DISTRICT IN HARDIN
COUNTY.
H. B. No. 445.] CHAPTER 150.
An Act to amend Section 3, Chapter 3, Local and Special Laws, Thirtyfifth
Legislature, Fourth Called Session, being entitled "An Act to
create and establish the Batson Independent School District of Hardin
County, Texas, and providing for the election of trustees in certain
contingencies," and declaring an emergency.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Texas:
SECTION 1. That Section 3 of Chapter 3 of the Local and
Special Laws passed at the Fourth Call Session of the Thirtyfifth
Legislature entitled "An Act to create and establish the
Batson Independent School District in Hardin County, Texas",
be and the same is hereby, amended so as to hereafter read as
follows:
Section 3. The control and management of the schools of the
said Batson Independent School District be and is hereby vested
in a board of trustees composed of three persons, resident citizens
and qualified voters in the said district, to be elected and
serve as provided by General Law; provided that the present
board consisting of one or more persons acting as trustees of
the said Batson Independent School District are hereby authorized
to continue in office as trustee or trustees of the district
until the next succeeding election of trustees in independent
school districts, as provided by General Law, and until their
successors shall have been elected and qualified; provided, further
that the three candidates receiving the largest number of
votes at the said next succeeding election held hereunder shall
be entitled to serve as trustees as herein provided; and at all
subsequent trustee elections, the two or one candidates as the
case may be, receiving the largest number of votes shall be
entitled to serve as trustee or trustees for the full term for
which he or they are elected; provided further that the terms
of office for the three trustees chosen at the first election shall
be divided into two classes and the members shall draw for the
different classes, the two members drawing the numbers one
and two shall serve for one year or a part thereof, that is, until
the first May thereafter and until their successors are elected
and qualified; and the one member drawing the number three
shall serve for two years, that is, until the second May thereafter
and until his successor is elected and qualified; and regularly
thereafter, on the first Saturday in May of each year, two
trustees and one trustee, alternately, shall be elected for a term
of two years to succeed the trustees or trustee whose whose term
shall at that time expire.
The said district, as created by this Act, shall have and exercise
and is hereby vested with all the rights, powers, privileges
and duties of independent school districts incorporated under
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Gammel, Hans Peter Mareus Neilsen. The Laws of Texas, 1925 [Volume 23], book, 1925; Austin, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth15499/m1/449/: accessed April 28, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; .