The Laws of Texas, 1923-1925 [Volume 22] Page: 434 of 1,648
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424 SPECIAL LAWS.
SEC. 2. The management and control of the public free schools
of Frost Independent Schcol District as created by this Act is hereby
vested in a board of trustees that shall be composed of seven
persons, who are resident citizens and qualified voters in said
district, and each member of said board of trustees shall before
entering upon the discharge of his duties as such, subscribe to the
official oath provided by the General Statutes of the State of
Texas. Immediately upon taking effect of this Act, the county
judge of Navarro County, Texas, shall order an election for the
purpose of electing seven trustees to serve as trustees of said Frost
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 for the different classes; the four drawing
the numbers 1, 2, 3 and 4 shall serve for one year, or part thereof,
that is until the next succeeding regular election of trustees of independent
school districts and until their successors shall have been
duly elected and qualified; and the three members drawing the
numbers 5. 6 and 7 shall serve for two years, or part thereof, that
is, until the second succeeding regular election of trustees of independent
school districts, 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 expire at
that time.
SEC. 3. The Frost Independent School District, as created by
this Act shall have and exercise, and is hereby vested with all the
rights, powers, privileges and duties of a town or village incorporated
under the General Laws of the State for free school purposes
only and the board of trustees of said Frost Independent
School District shall have and exercise and are hereby vested and
charged with all of the rights, powers, privileges and duties conferred
and imposed by the General Laws of this State upon the
trustees of independent school districts incorporated under the
General Laws of Texas for free school purposes only.
SEC. 4. All maintenance tax and outstanding bonded indebtedness
heretofore voted, in said Frost Common School District No.
60 shall remain in full force and effect and shall be chargeable
against the Frost Independent School District, said district being
identical in boundaries with said, original Common School District
No. 60.
SEC. 5. The board of trustees shall have power to and may
appoint a tax assessor and collector and board of equalization for
said district.
SEC. 6. The unsatisfactory condition of the schools in said district
creates an emergency and an imperative public necessity that
the constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
davs be susupended. and the same is hereby suspended, and that
this Act take effect and be in force from and after its passage, and
it is so enacted.
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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/m1/434/: accessed May 9, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; .