OFFICE OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL OF TEXAS 

AU8WN 

courtr ouprailed to eon6 r0l: oalllng 

, raid prtltfon 

0r April, 1940. 

orrib f8r th88b tW0 

8 8806, v8MOn’8 -tat84 oiV;l Bta%UtO8, 

"Art1010 mo6. OB th8 p0tiil;ion 0r twm 

(so) or t mJorltT or tho legally qualiiiod 

TOtOr 0r 88Oh 0r roveral @Ont16UOU8 oomwn 

8OhOO1 di8triOt8, Of OOBti@UWl8 Ind8WldOBt 

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8ehOOl di8trbriOt8, pl%lrIing iOr tho OonsOlidatIOn 

of 8uoh di8trIOt8 far 80&4001 pPrPOBe8, tha 

CoWty sudg0 8hsLl i88ae 0B Orbr rOr an ObOtion to be hold on tha 8ame day in eaoh suoh 

dlstriot. Tha CoUBty Judge 8hd.l giTe IIOtiOe 

of th8 date of 8Wh tiOOtiOll8 by publloation 

of the ardor In 8OlM BeW8 

th8 008aty ror twenty (80 

P8r publiah8d in 

days prior to tho 

data OB rhiah 8ooh l leOtiOll8 are OrdOnd, Or 

br pO8ting a not:00 Or 8UOh 8hCtiOM III e8Oh 

oi the dl8triot8, or by both 8uoh pUbliO8tfOB 

Md pO8t.d l&OtiOO8. The COd88iOEOr8' COWt 

aball at it8 next aoeting oaWaa8 the retQN8 

ot suoh elaotlolu, and Ii the rote8 oart in 

oaoh aad all dirtrIot. 8hor a majority In eaoh 

dl8trIOt Voting IOpUTataT in raVOr Of 8R8h 

ooneolidation, the Court 8hall decrlere the 

Sahool di8ttriCt8 oonm1Idated. 

'COIPPY)~ 8QhOO1 di8trIOt8 nay in likm 

mannor bo eonsolldatad rtth oontiguoor IBdrpendant 8ohoo1 di8trIot8, end the dIrtrIot 80 

oreated bhtlu 6. known by t ha name of the 

Independent ~8obool di8trIot Inoluded therein, 

and tha managemeat or the n* dietriot 8hdLi 

bo under the existing board or tro8teea or the 

Independent eahool dirtriot, aad all the right8 

and privilege8 granted to Independent dIstrIot8 

by the hW8 of thi8 State 8ha11 bo-8Irsn to tha 

oW8olidated Independent dI8trIat oreated under 

tb prorlsions 0r th18 law; provided that when 

two or more Independent dI8trIot8 lue oonsolldated, ths Countr Board ot,Tru8teee shall designate 

the name by rhloh the oald dlrrtriot shall be 

brn, and rhall appoint a board ot,reven tru8- 

tee8 ror the oaid OOU8Oud8ted dirtriot, to 

--e until the next regular 8bOtIOn'Of tru8- 

t-8 a8 preaar$bed br i#enaral Law, at whIoh 

time the dI8trIot 8ka.U eloot a board 0r 8even 

trU8te.8 whose gorer8, duties and term8 0r 

orri8e 8hai1 ba In aooordanoe with th0 pto- 

*18iOn8 oi tlm CBneral Law $avemtng Independoat 

dI8triOt8, aa ther now l xI8t or mar herearter ba l na a tedprovided ; rurther that rhan It i8 proW8ed to oon8olIdate oOntI&pOU8 COttaty 1-e dIStrIOt8 the pitIt$on8 .gid eleotion orders prefiorlbM in thi8 AOt 6hal.l b0 addrO8886 to and i88Ued 

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diatloa over the prinolpal echool or eaoh 

dlstrlot and the reeulta oi the election shall 

be canraseed by the Commiesioners* Court Of 

the said oouuty. 

-The tern rdi8trict1 a8 used in thi8 

and the succeeding nine artiolee mean8 ‘eonsolldated oonnaon sohool di8trict8,' or *eonsolidated independent sohool distriot.* (AOt8 

1919, 2nd C. S., p.169, 68 amended AOt8 1923, 

p. 169I Act8 1931, 42nd Leg., p. 182, 

The terse oi Artiolo 2SOd aupra, do not deeigaate 

that anP partIoul.ar time element shall Intervene between 

petition8 to oon8olidate eohool dI8tricta. NOr doe8 the 

lcici~u;ge,used ju8tiry any Lnplloatlon or 8Wh a legI8latIre 

. Yoware 8ecordInglP adri8ed. 

Truatlng that the above 8atIetaotorIlP answer8 

Pour QUe8tiOn8, ye remain 

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