The Laws of Texas, 1925 [Volume 23] Page: 465 of 822
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SPECIAL LAWS. 453
School District shall be and is hereby made a body politic and
corporate in law, and as such shall have power to contract and
be contracted with, to sue and be sued, to plead and be impleaded
in any court of this State of proper jurisdiction, and may receive
.any gifts, grants, donations, or devises made to or for the use of
the public free schools of said district.
SEC. 5. Immediately upon the taking effect of this Act, the
,county judge of Terry County shall order an election for the purpose
of electing seven trustees to serve as trustees of said Hunter
Independent School District, whose terms of office shall be as follows:
The terms of office of the seven trustees chosen at the
first election under this Act shall be divided into two classes and
the members shall draw the different classes, the four drawing
the numbers one, two, three and four, shall serve for one year,
,or part thereof, that is, until the next succeeding regular election
,of trustees of said Hunter Independent School District, and until
their successors shall have been duly elected and qualified; and
the three members drawing the numbers five, six and seven shall
serve for two years; that is, until the second succeeding election
,of trustees of said Hunter Independent School District, and until
their successors shall have been duly elected and qualified, and
regularly thereafter each year four trustees and three trustees
.alternately shall be elected for a term of two years to succeed the
trustees whose terms shall at that time expire.
SEC. 6. Before any trustee enters upon the discharge of his
office he shall qualify by taking and subscribing the oath of office
provided by the Constitution of this State, which oath after
the first election shall be filed with the county judge of Terry
County, Texas, and after all subsequent elections with the president
or chairman of the board of trustees of said Hunter Independent
School District.
SEC. 7. The trustees chosen under this Act shall meet within
ten days after the election or as soon thereafter as may be practical
for the purpose of organizing, a majority of said board of
trustees shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of any business,
except levying taxes, and ordering bond elections, when
two-thirds of the trustees shall constitute a quorum; and they
shall choose from their number a president, a secretary, a treasurer,
and assessor and collector of taxes, and other necessary
officers and committees.
SEC. 8. The trustees of said Hunter Independent School District
shall have power to levy and collect an annual ad valorem
tax, of and not exceeding the limit as is now or may hereafter be
adopted for the maintenance of the public free schools therein,
and a tax of and not exceeding fifty ($0.50) cents on the one
hundred ($100.00) dollars of taxable property within said district,
for the purpose of erecting, constructing, repairing and
equipping, or either, of public free school buildings within the
limits of said Hunter Independent School District, and of purchasing
sites therefor; provided however, that the amount of
maintenance tax, together with the bond tax of said district shall
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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/m1/465/: accessed April 28, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; .