The Laws of Texas, 1925 [Volume 23] Page: 375 of 822

                                
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CREATING AND INCORPORATING COMMON SCHOOL
DISTRICT NO. 16, OF JEFFERSON COUNTY.
H. B. No. 5.]            CHAPTER 123.
An Act creating and incorporating Common School District No. 16, of
Jefferson County, Texas; defining and determining the boundaries
of said school district; prescribing the manner of changing and modifying
the boundaries of said school district; conferring upon said
school district, except as otherwise provided in this Act, all the rights,
powers, privileges and duties as are conferred and imposed by the
General Laws of this State upon common school districts; providing
for a board of district trustees and prescribing the qualifications for
members thereof; continuing in office the district trustees of the previously
existing common school district until the expiration of their
respective terms of office and until their successors are elected and
qualified under the General Laws of this State; vesting the board
of district trustees, except as otherwise provided in this Act, with all
the rights, powers, privileges and duties that are conferred and imposed
by the General Laws of this State upon district trustees of
common school districts; vesting the management and control of the
public free schools in said school district in a board of district trustees
consisting of three members; providing that the board of district
trustees shall be a body politic and corporate in law, may contract
and be contracted with, may sue and be sued, may plead and
be impleaded, and may receive any gift, grant, donation or devise for
the use and benefit of the public free schools in said school district;
vesting in said school district, its board of district trustees and their
successors in office, with absolute title to all property and school
funds heretofore vested in and belonging to the previously existing
common school district; validating all maintenance taxes heretofore
voted and levied in said previously existing common school district
and continuing the same in full force and effect until modified as
provided in this Act; validating all bonds issued and all bond taxes
levied for and on behalf of said previously existing common school
district; authorizing the issuance of bonds and limiting the rate of
maintenance tax and the rate of bond tax that may be voted, levied,
assessed and collected in said school district; prescribing the purposes
for which maintenance taxes and bond taxes are authorized by
this Act and the disposition of the funds derived from said taxes;
providing that this Act shall not impair or invalidate any bonds, contracts,
obligations and debts of the previously existing common school
district; providing that all the bonds, contracts, obligations and debts
of said previously existing common school district shall constitute
valid and binding obligations upon said school district as created by
this Act; providing that said school district shall assume, pay off and
discharge all bonds, contracts, obligations and debts of said previously
existing common school district; providing that this Act shall,
except as herein otherwise provided, be cumulative of all General
Laws of this State applicable to common school districts, and that in
case of conflict the provisions of this Act will control; repealing all
laws and parts of laws in so far as they are or may be in conflict with
this Act; providing that in case any clause, section or sections of this
Act shall be held by the courts to be ineffective or unconstitutional,
such decision by the courts shall not affect or invalidate the remaining
sections and provisions of this Act; and declaring an emergency.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Texas:
SECTION 1. That Common School District No.16, of Jefferson
County, Texas, be and the same is hereby created and incorporated
a common school district in Jefferson County, Texas, to