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SPECIAL LAWS. 283
qualified; and regularly thereafter each year four trustees and
three trustees 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 Lynn County,
Texas, and after all subsequent elections with the president or
chairman of the board of trustees of said independent school districts.
SEC. 7. The board of trustees chosen under this Act shall meet
within ten days after election, or as soon thereafter as may be
practicable, for the purpose of organizing. A majority of said
board shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of any business,
except levying taxes and ordering bond elections, when twothirds
of the trustees shall constitute a quorum; and they shall
choose from their number a president; and they shall choose a
secretary, a treasurer, and an assessor and collector of taxes and
other necessary officers and committees.
SEC. 8. The trustees of said district shall have power to levy
and collect an annual ad valorem tax of and not exceeding the
limit as now provided by law or as may hereafter be adopted, for
the maintenance of the public free schools therein, and a tax of
and not exceeding the limit as now fixed by law or as may hereafter
be adopted on all the taxable property in said district for the purpose
of erect;ng, constructing, repairing and equipping, or either,
of public free school buildings within the limits of said district,
and of purchasing sites therefor, provided, however, that the
amount of maintenance tax together with the bond tax of said district,
shall never exceed the constitutional limit as now fixed or
as may hereafter be adopted. Said trustees shall have power to
issue coupon bonds of said district for building purposes, and to
equip such buldings, which bonds shall be payable not exceeding
forty years from their date, in such sums as they shall deem expedient,
and to bear interest not to exceed five per cent per annum;
provided, however, that when such buildings are to be constructed
of wooden materials, the bonds herein provided for shall not run
for a longer period than twenty years; provided, that the aggregate
amount of bonds for the above named purposes shall never
reach such amount that the tax permitted by law to be voted for
such purposes on the taxable property within said independent
school district shall not be sufficient to pay the current interest
and create a sinking fund sufficient to pay the principal at maturity;
and provided further, that no such tax shall be levied and
no such bounds shall be issued until after an election shall have
been held within said district wherein a majority of the property
tax paying voters voting at an election to be held for that purpose
shall have voted in favor of the levying of the tax or the issuance
of such bonds, or both, as the case may be; provided, that the specific
rate of tax need not be determined at said election.
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Gammel, Hans Peter Mareus Neilsen. The Laws of Texas, 1923-1925 [Volume 22], book, 1925; Austin, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth15500/m1/293/: accessed April 26, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; .