**OFFICE OF**  **THE ATTORNEY**  **GENRRAL OF**  **TRXAS AU8llN** 

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### by Cbwral Irrr, nt whioh tim8 th8 dit8triOt shall eleot a board of **58ven** trwt6u6, whos8 ~JWSX-~, duti8a and tdnn6 of oifio8 shall be in aomrdan~ 

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### ArtS.018 2BC6,R.C.B., **1%?6, $rOVid68,**  **in** 

### pert, **a8 follcw6t** 

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### aotmty school tzusta8n at 

### Its next siasting after 

### suoh ooneolid&lon art 8ol:Qol district*I.8

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appoiat a bo%rd of s%v%n truH%aa for the ooafmlidetad **distriot,** ***** ***** **+ T&6**  **t8m8 &Yf**  **OSiiOS Of**  **thBS0** of th% trust%e8 so a2paintad aball exptre UIS the fisst %ay of Muy a8xt iollowing l$lslTa$- paintant, end 

### th8 tera6 d' offi & the 

### other **iQW tru8t888**  **6hll 6X&?8**  **On t&U**  **ifist day**  of **Kakap**

**Of th8**  **6IMOe84~** ySar, 66 tho88 110
**e pointed**  s&all d8t‘S%4iM 

### by lot. Smah y'eal' t er8aftor 

### dtumetely three tru6toeaeaa fear Ii **truetesa 8hati**  **b8 8l8Otd**  by tba ;Ina2~fiM vote6 of the distrfot on the first **&aturbry** of **april 3n%**  **txuateeil 8a**  **eleotud ehall**  **8nt8s ugon**  the cI@O&W$U **Of** thofr duttaa on **th8** firfit **day** of ?asji:&&t 

### forluaiagan6 serva for a tarm of 

### two yea*6 

### theresftex. * * * *
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### R.C.B., 1925,r6sd8 3s follcut88

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ar the high sc?ioolof the district. doti% in. collaboration aith tha distriot su9arlntendent, the board of trustees shall employ taaahars for the several elamantor$- aohools of tba dlstriot, or for the 

### departments of the hi@ school, which teaohers shall be eleotcd for ona yaar Or tm year8 as tha truataos decide, and they @hall serve under the &:reotion end supani~ian of the dlmtrlot eu9arintandsnt. Contraot8 **between** tb trustees and the dlatriot rsuperictandent and teaohars shall be in writing and mbjaat to tha approval o? tha oounty superintendent of the ommty whmwin auoh dietrict ia 

### sltu6tsd.a Acts 1930, 41st Lag., 5th C.S., Q. Zl.9 oh. 66, **soo. a,**  **(Art. ET74a,**  **sco. 3,**  

### Vernon'0**Tetae Ciril**  

### Statutaa) raad8, in part, as follaast

**‘ seea.**  **3.** Ths board of county mhOol trustees at it6 naxt meatin& after the oormol.- 

### idstionof sohool districti 

### is deolamd ahall appoint a board of saten truetaaa fas thiso~ll

### eolidateddistrict. + * + Those elaotad at the rlrat 

## eleehn shall detaraine by lot the term for whioh they are to aarva. The three maxbsra drawing rmbsrr, 0116,two and 

## three ahall aam r0r on0 yeas, the two menbaro 

### drawin(E, znaJ!abers r0ur **find** rfve eball aarve r0r tu0 

## yeers end**th8** two embers drawing numbers six and uvon ahall 

### 8erve for thme ymm, or and until their moeaH0~8 are sleated 

### and qualiflad; and regularly thareerter on tba rmt Saturdag in hprfl or aaoh +a three tnmtaeB or two truetaoa Shell 

### be aleotad for a term of thras years to **auooesd the**  trustees whose.term shall.

### at that time exph. **aI*

Acta 1937, Oh. 367, 9. 541, raad6, in part, a8 follOwa:

"Art. 275Oa. (Vernon*s Term Civil 

### Statut.88)

That trustees Or any ao~llllon sahool dlstriot or coneolidotad cmzmon eohool district shall have authrjrltyto mke contracts r0r a period of tine not in 8x0898 Of two **(2)** year0 With princlpalI3, superintendents, and teschers or said oomaon school districts, provided tlmt such 

### oontraatsshall ba

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approved **by** 

### the CeuntySuperintendent. * * * * Artiole89808 and 9609were orl&mlly **enacted** 

### au seotlans3 and 5 reapeot$Yely or x3.8.

Ho. 148, oh. SS, ~0t.a 1919 ~2ndC.S.,p, 167. It WI&~ be noted that **under** 

### Arti &X3 6,

majorityof the trwteee 

### an the boardwould not be *sltMed* until the aeoond

## trusteeeleotlon

### attar the oormoUdatlon. **We** 

### think it 

### la slear t&t the expreeIdOn; 'The bO4Wd Of tZWJt~O880 OieOtOd l 

### iI% A&%0&e m9 W-Mnot 

### intendedto be conStruedas a lhitatlon 

### upon the authorityor the first truteea but'waswad zwrely a8 

### a reisreaoeto the preoedlng 

### seotlo~~. Othuwlse there would be a solldatloneerlod o? in% one to two rears 

## after the 

## eonhottha board of trtmtees 

### could not ez~loy or contraotvlth tsaohers'for the dlatrlot. 

## xi underrrubrequeut statoterr

or axendmentathe orlglnaltrimteesappointed**by** 

### the County Board 

### are to 

### serve only until the mxt general trusteeeleotlon,we do not think thlawuld have the effeot or Omvertlng the languageof Art10108809 intoa llmitatlcih.iil8ume thht tm dlstrlotsare oonoolldatedin Jw and sercto. tTustee8 are appointedto aarm until the next bru8teeeleetlonto be held the follawfngApril. ObvlauaXj' the purporre

in 

### protiding

for 

### the fwa4iate appointmentof a **board, was**  

### ta ruralaha goymning bdly for the dtitrlotoa able of 

### mane&q ifs **affair6** 

### 60 **that** 

### it may funatlan. -t 

## r ltru Intended

### thatthe a

T inted **board should**  

### 'not **Iawe** 

### authority to eleot and emp oy teaac&ara, praotieall year might pass beforeteaohersoould be amg~ o@ far the f a 

## ra..ta&o01 schoolsof the dlIHirl@t.



### 1% is our oplnloa



## thatthe **rlrst a~poiatetl**  

### board of trwteee, for a consolidated sohool **di0tr** 

### fat is authorlzed to elect and oontraot 

### with 

### teacrhors Sor 

### the sOk00ls or the dfstrlotand lt la not naos6s,cuy 

## townituntil the subsequently

elestedboard has taken oharge of the oonsolldateddlstriotbefore employingteachers.

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