OFFICE OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL OF TEXAS 

AUSTIN 11 

Honorable Sidney J. Brovn 

County Attorney 

xbrt Bend ceunty 

Richmond, Texas Opinion NO. 6591 

Dear Sirt Rer Conflict in the school dlatrict lines in PO 

County, vhsreln it appears 

ent School Dlatrlct oreate 

aboutl92obar takena 

#11 created lnl893 

811, and oblige." 

Presumably, Comoon School District lo. 11 vas created 

by the k4Wll1SSiOIl8F~' court Of Fort &lld COUZlty, %XW, Cm SWtember 25, 1893, under the Oeneral Laws In effekct rt that date. 
Honorable Sidney J. Brovn, page 2 

A aertliflad copy of the minute8 or the CaPrairrlon4r8 1 Court OS 

Port Bond County, Texas, glrlag the field not4a and earug4 Of 

said Dlatrlat vaa fumlahed this orflo4; but v4 darn it unnoo4sSary to quota the entim order In this opinion. 

The Katy Sndepandent Sohool Dlatrlat, lnoludlng pBFta 

of IBarrIs, Weller, and Port Band Countlra, Texacr, vaa crsat4d 

by a sp4cial rot of the Regular Seasion OS th4 Thirty-8Fxth 

L4glalatum, th sam4 tmIng Chapter 20, apoc~s1 uva of T-a 

Sor oald seadon. Ssld Act oontaha the flold notoa end boundarior of said dlatrict. we putted the eon8oa llu48 of both 

dlatriota from the tlold not48 and find on4 tmot lnalud4d in 

both field notor. 

Under th4 Constitution of th4 Star of Toxar nov In 

t4r44, th4 Loglrlaturo I8 not authorlwd to pus rpeolal 8ahoel 

lava. County aahool trUteem of 0-8 County, ot al V. Di.8- 

trlcrt TruatooB ot Pralrlo Viov Cmoa~ School Matriat HO. 8, 

153 a. w. (2d), 434-438 (Supmme Court). 

Hovovor, at th4 tire th4 kt In&4p*nbont Soho 

Dlatribt vas cmat4d br rp4olal sot, t L kgiruture had a\Ithority to areato aahool diatrfot8 by sp4olal lav8. Art1014 ?, 

y&g:3 of th4 stat4 conat1tut1on oontallu th4 Iolloviag P- 

* l l 4 kid th4 h 18~tIW4 -7 8180 prmldo 

for tiw loration of 8a %e 01 diltriota br g4nolrl 

or l pecl81 uv vlthcfut th4 14oal aotio4 r4Quir4d 

in other oaaoa OS sp4aisl laglalatl~ and all such 

school dirtrlctr, vheth4r azvatod by gonor or 

ap4cial lav, myn4mbauoo parts of two or mozy 

WUtlti4 8. 4 l + 

Said eonatltutl4Ml provl814n va8 4a4nta46 at an efeotion on aovm&8r 2, 1926. me Bowament Court of Civil A-18, 

In construing th4 above-quoted aoxutltutloPa1 provlai4n j.n 

Tllton v. Ikyton Indepondont 8ahool District, 2 S. W. (261, 8% 

'?#l, vrlt d14@1844d, atatodr 

*It 18 Vbll @Ott146 thst th4 bg%8htUZ'4 ha8 

the power to anat ladeperzdont l ohool dl8trict8, 

and that It wq do 80 br rr-cnat%ng or l nlarg~ 

already arlstlng districta, by lnaludlng vltbin 

the x+-amated or nw dlatrlct torrltocp forming 

portlon8 or all of colll~on school diatriot8. conat. 

art. 7, b 31 YlcRhail v. Tax Collector (Tax. Clv. 

App.) 280 8. W. 260 (vz’lt rotrod); Ooffort v. 

Iorktovn LndepQndrnt Sahool Dlstriot (%4x, 01~. 

App.) 285 3, V. 345, 350; %ndemon V. l'llL14~ 

(Tax. Clv. App.) 286 3. W. 501 (vr%t mfuaed); 
Honorable Sidney J. B-II, pasO 3 

Fill v. Smlthvl+ Indeps+ont School ;latrlct 

(Tex. Corn. App.) 251 S. W. 209. . . . 

Considering the Constitution tbat wan ln ef'f'sct at the 

time the two school districts ~4x94 created and the euthorltlea 

construing the applicable conatltutlanal provision, this departmont la of the opinion that the land in controvoray Is 8 pert of 

the Katy Independent School District, and the school tax on said 

land should be collected by tho lG3ty Indopendont Sohool Matrlct. 

v4rytm1yyowYi, 

ATTORREI! GHfERAL 01 TmA8 

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