**OFFICE OF**  **THE ATTORNEY**  **GENERAL OF**  **TEXAS AUSTIN**  **11**

Honorable Sidney J. Brovn CountyAttorney xbrt Bendceunty Richmond,Texas Opinion NO. 6591 Dear Sirt Rer Conflict in the school dlatrict lines in PO

County, vhsreln it appears 

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811, and oblige." Presumably, Comoon School District lo. 11vas created by the k4Wll1SSiOIl8F~' court Of Fort &lld COUZlty, %XW, Cm SW**tember**25, 1893,under **the** Oeneral Laws In effekct rt that date.**Honorable Sidney**  J. Brovn, page 2

**A** aertliflad copy of the 

### minute8or the CaPrairrlon4r81Court OS Port BondCounty, 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.

TheKaty SndepandentSohool Dlatrlat, lnoludlng pBFta of IBarrIs,

Weller, and Port BandCountlra, **Texacr,**vaa crsat4d by a sp4cial rot of the Regular Seasion OSth4 Thirty-8Fxth L4glalatum, th sam4tmIng Chapter 20, apoc~s1 uva of T-a Sor **oald** seadon. Ssld Act oontaha the flold notoa end boundarior of said dlatrict. weputted the eon8oa llu48 of both dlatriota from the tlold not48 and find on4tmot 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. Countyaahool 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*nbontSoho Dlatribt vas cmat4d br rp4olal sot, tL kgiruture had a\Ithority to 

## areatoaahool 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 8180prmldo for tiw loration of 8a 01diltriota br g4nolrl %e 

### or l pecl81 uv vlthcfut th4 14oal aotio4 r4Quir4d in other 

### oaaoaOSsp4aisl laglalatl~ and all such school dirtrlctr, vheth4r azvatod **by gonor**  

### or ap4cial lav, myn4mbauoo parts of two

### ormozy WUtlti48. 4 l + Said eonatltutl4Ml provl814n va8 4a4nta46at 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 18Vbll @Ott146thst 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 YlcRhailv. Tax Collector (Tax. Clv. App.) **280 8.**  **W. 260**  (vz’lt **rotrod);** Ooffort **v.** Iorktovn LndepQndrntSahool 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.) 251S. W. 209.

. . . Considering the Constitution tbat wanln ef'f'sct at the time the two school districts ~4x94 created and the euthorltlea construing the applicable conatltutlanal provision, this departmontla 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 tholG3tyIndopendontSohool Matrlct. v4rytm1yyowYi,
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