The Laws of Texas, 1925 [Volume 23] Page: 480 of 822
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468 SPECIAL LAWS.
School District, shall be the same as fixed by the board of trustees
of said district; and the said board of trustees in said Willow
Wells Independent School District is hereby given all power and
authority now conferred by law upon commissioners' court when
sitting as a board 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. 14 of Terry County, Texas, be, and the same are,
hereby validated and all such indebtedness and obligations outstanding
of said Common School District No. 14 shall be assummed
by and are hereby made binding obligations of the said
Willow Wells Independent School District as the same is created
by this Act.
SEC. 15. The local maintenance tax heretofore voted by the
qualified voters of said Common School District No. 14 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 taxpaying 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
School District No. 14 in Terry County shall be and is hereby
vested in said Willow Wells Independent School District.
SEC. 17. In all matters not provided for in this Act, the said
board of trustees of said Willow Wells Independent School District
shall be governed by the General Laws of the State of
Texas, applicable to independent school districts.
SEC. 18. That fact that the educational facilities of the territory,
within the said Willow Wells Independent School District
are insufficient for want of adequate school buildings and insufficiency
of funds, to provide school buildings and adequately maintain
the schools creates an emergency and an imperative public
necessity, necessitating fhe suspension of the constitutional rule
requiring bills to be read on three successive days in each House,
and said rule is hereby suspended; that this Act shall take effect
and be in full force from and after its passage, and it is so enacted.
[NOTE.-The enrolled bill shows that the foregoing Act passed
the House, 112 yeas, 0 nays; passed the Senate, 27 yeas, 0 nays.]
Approved March 17, 1925.
Effective March 17, 1925.
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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/m1/480/: accessed April 27, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; .