The Laws of Texas, 1925 [Volume 23] Page: 467 of 822

                                
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days after the day of the election, and the result thereof shall
be recorded by said trustees in a well bound book kept for that
purpose.
SEC. 11. The assessor and collector of taxes of the district
shall have the same power and shall perform the same duties,
with reference to the assessment and collection of taxes for free
school purposes that are now conferred by law upon the city marshal
of an incorporated town or village, and he shall receive such
compensation for his services as the board of trustees shall allow,
not to exceed four per centum of the whole amount of taxes received
by him, and he shall give bond, to be approved by said
board of trustees, in double the estimated amount of the taxes
coming annually into his hands, payable to the president of the
board of trustees, and his successors in office, conditioned for the
faithful discharge of his duties, and the payment of the amount
of taxes received by him to the treasurer of said Hunter Independent
School District.
SEC. 12. When a majority of the board of trustees of said district
prefer to have the taxes of their district assessed by the
county assessor and collected by the county collector, the same
shall be assessed and collected by the said county officers and
turned over to the treasurer of this district for which such taxes
have been collected; provided that the property of this district,
when assessed by the county tax assessor, shall not be assessed
at a greater valuation than that assessed for county and State
purposes; provided further that when the county assessor and
county collector are required to assess and collect the taxes of
this district, they shall respectively receive one per centum for
assessing and collecting the same.
SEC. 13. Property valuations in said Hunter Independent
School District shall be the same as fixed by the board of trustees
of said district; and the said board of trustees in said Hunter
Independent School District is hereby given all power and authority
now conferred by law upon the commissioners' courts
when sitting as boards of equalization, fixing property values in
said independent school district.
SEC. 14. It is hereby expressly provided that any and all outstanding
indebtedness and obligations of said Common School
District No. 12 of Terry County, Texas, be and the same are hereby
validated, and all such indebtedness and obligations outstanding
in said Common School District No. 12 shall be assumed by
and are hereby made binding obligations on the said Hunter Independent
School District.
SEC. 15. The local maintenance tax heretofore voted by the
qualified voters of said Common School District No. 12, in Terry
County, Texas, and now in force, is hereby validated and continued
in the independent school district hereby created, until
such time as a majority of the qualified property tax paying voters
of this district shall see proper to increase, diminish, or abolish
the same as provided in the General Statutes of this State.
SEC. 16. The title to all property vested in said Common