The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1899-03-18
FROM THE CAPITAL CITY
Attention Called TO the New Law Relating
to School Trustees.
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Austin, Texas, March IL The following
important notice was issued today from
the State department OF education:
To County Judges of All District Counties
in Texas.
Dear sirs; ! beg 10 call your attention
to the following amendment OF the school
laws relating to the election OF district
trustees. The bill. with the emergency
clause attached, passed both houses OF
the legislature. and received the signature
of Governor Sayers yesterday, March u.s.
and is. therefore. the law today. The at
torncy general holds that. under existing
conditions, IL Will be lawful for YOU 10
give notice rs soon as possible and to
direct the election to be held In the various
districts of your several counties on the
iirst Saturday of April, which is April l.
The attorney general further holds that
the lack of the usual twenty days notice
will not vitiate the election so held Please
take immediate action looking to having
an election held In accordance with this
new law. Yours truly.
j. S. Kendall.
State Superintendent Public Instruction.
II possible have all the newspapers OF
your counties TO give notice of this cleo
ton.
Be it enacted by the Legislature OF the
State of Texas.
Section l. That article $3.50, chapter ii.
title LXXXVl. be amended so as to here
after read as follows:
On the first saturday in April, after
the passage OF this law, the qualified vot-
ers of each school district at a school
district meeting for that purpose shall
elect three trustees for said district. who
shall enter ppon tho discharge of their
duties OF the list OF May next following.
They shall Immediately thereafter organize
by electing ono of their number president
and one secretary of the board of trustees
The terms of office of said trustees
shall be divided into two classes. and
they shall draw for the different classes;
the one drawing the number one shall
serve one year, and those drawing number
two and three shall serve two years and
until their successors shall have been
elected or appointed and shall have quail
fed.
on the hrst Saturday In April OF each
year thereafter, there shall be an election
in each school district for the election
OF a trustee or trustees, as the case may
be- and the trustee or trustees so elected
shall serve for two years and until their
successor or successors shall have been
elected or appointed and shall have been
qualified
The trustees so elected or appointed
shall. before entering upon the discharge
VI theil uutles, puahiS Wy ihh'ns the o"bi
to faithfully perform their duties. and
shall as soon as practical file said oath
with the county superintendent or county
Judge.
The fact that the present law is very
unsatisfactory concerning the election OF
school trustees, the near approach for the
time for trustees election, and the great
number of bills now on the calender,
create an emergency and public necessity
that the constitutional rule requiring bills
to be read on three several days be sps-
pended and that this act take effect ina
mediately after its passage, and 1t is so
enacted.
j. S. Sheriff.
Speaker House OF Representatives.
r. n. Stafford,
President OF the Senate Pro TEN.
Approved March Is. 1893.
Joseph d. ssyers.
Governor.