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Timestamp: 2019-08-22 01:36:20
Document Index: 323241752

Matched Legal Cases: ['§36', '§ 37', '§ 38', '§ 39', '§ 40', '§ 41', '§ 42', '§ 43', '§36', '§ 37', '§ 38', '§ 39', '§ 40', '§ 41', '§ 42', '§ 43']

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MISSOURI. 145
§36. The provisions of the forty-seventh and succeeding sections to the
fifty-third inclusive of the said third article shall be construed to include commissioners of a town or village common schools, appointed and acting as such, and
their successors, substituting the word  "corporation" for "township," whenever
§ 37. The clerk of every school corporation, organized under the provisions
of "this article, shall, in relation to such corporation and the directors thereof,
perform th'e like duties as are enjoined upon clerks of townships in relation to
such townships and the school directors thereof, by the fifty-fifth section of the
third article of this act.
§ 38. Any person, who shall deem himself aggrieved by any decision made,
or any act done by the school directors of any such corporation, or by the refusal of any such directors to do any act or perform any duty required by law,
may appeal to the superintendent of common schools, whose decision shall be
§ 39. The inhabitants of the town of St. Ferdinand, in the county of St.
Louis, may be incorporated for school purposes under the provisions of this article, upon the petition of the majority of the inhabitants thereof; and upon such-
corporation being organized, it shall succeed to all the rights of the trustees of
the school lots find lands of the said town of St. Ferdinand vested in them by
"an act concerning the school lots of the town of St. Ferdinand, commonly calk
cdFlorisant, in the county of St. Louis, approved the 3d of February, 1837."
§ 40.    Upon the organization  of such corporation, the trustees then in office
shall account for and pay to the school directors of such corporation all monies
which shall have come to their hands as  such trustees, and deliver to such direc-.
tors all bonds, mortgages, securities, records and papers, in their hands or  possession as such trustees.
§ 41. Every trustee, who shall neglect to do or perform any thing enjoined
on him by the preceding section, shall forfeit and pay to the corporation fifty
dollars, and shall moreover be liable to such corporation for all damages occasioned thereby.
§ 42. The corporation heretofore established in the city of St. Louis, for
school purposes, by the name and style of "The Board of President and Directors
of the St. Louis Public Schools," may be vested with the powers, charged with
the duties, entitled to the privileges and immunities of a corporation organized
under the provisions of this act, upon a,petition or other valid act of the corporation presented and filed in the county court of the county of St. Louis.
§ 43. Such county court may, on such application,, make an order declaring
the said corporation to be subject to the provisions of the twenty-first and succeeding sections of this article to the thirty-eighth inclusive, and thenceforth the
said sections shall extend to such corporation, to all intents and purposes, as if
they were contained in its charter of incorporation, and the directors and other
officers of the. said corporation shall, in addition to the powers vested in them by
the charter, have all the powers in the said sections conferred on directors and
other officers of a corporation organized under the provision's of this act, and
shall be liable to the like penalties and forfeitures,
Miscelka
leous provisions.
School districts heretofore organized, not to be effected by this act, until reorganization.
■>.    aaid distiict may receive a portion of the township school monies; but no part of the State off
county fund, until reorganization.
o.   How such reorganization effected.
Identifier LAWS_10th_1838-1839_0145.tif
Transcript MISSOURI. 145 §36. The provisions of the forty-seventh and succeeding sections to the fifty-third inclusive of the said third article shall be construed to include commissioners of a town or village common schools, appointed and acting as such, and their successors, substituting the word "corporation" for "township," whenever it occurs. § 37. The clerk of every school corporation, organized under the provisions of "this article, shall, in relation to such corporation and the directors thereof, perform th'e like duties as are enjoined upon clerks of townships in relation to such townships and the school directors thereof, by the fifty-fifth section of the third article of this act. § 38. Any person, who shall deem himself aggrieved by any decision made, or any act done by the school directors of any such corporation, or by the refusal of any such directors to do any act or perform any duty required by law, may appeal to the superintendent of common schools, whose decision shall be final. § 39. The inhabitants of the town of St. Ferdinand, in the county of St. Louis, may be incorporated for school purposes under the provisions of this article, upon the petition of the majority of the inhabitants thereof; and upon such- corporation being organized, it shall succeed to all the rights of the trustees of the school lots find lands of the said town of St. Ferdinand vested in them by "an act concerning the school lots of the town of St. Ferdinand, commonly calk cdFlorisant, in the county of St. Louis, approved the 3d of February, 1837." § 40. Upon the organization of such corporation, the trustees then in office shall account for and pay to the school directors of such corporation all monies which shall have come to their hands as such trustees, and deliver to such direc-. tors all bonds, mortgages, securities, records and papers, in their hands or possession as such trustees. § 41. Every trustee, who shall neglect to do or perform any thing enjoined on him by the preceding section, shall forfeit and pay to the corporation fifty dollars, and shall moreover be liable to such corporation for all damages occasioned thereby. § 42. The corporation heretofore established in the city of St. Louis, for school purposes, by the name and style of "The Board of President and Directors of the St. Louis Public Schools," may be vested with the powers, charged with the duties, entitled to the privileges and immunities of a corporation organized under the provisions of this act, upon a,petition or other valid act of the corporation presented and filed in the county court of the county of St. Louis. § 43. Such county court may, on such application,, make an order declaring the said corporation to be subject to the provisions of the twenty-first and succeeding sections of this article to the thirty-eighth inclusive, and thenceforth the said sections shall extend to such corporation, to all intents and purposes, as if they were contained in its charter of incorporation, and the directors and other officers of the. said corporation shall, in addition to the powers vested in them by the charter, have all the powers in the said sections conferred on directors and other officers of a corporation organized under the provision's of this act, and shall be liable to the like penalties and forfeitures, ARTICLE VI. Miscelka leous provisions. Sec. l School districts heretofore organized, not to be effected by this act, until reorganization. ■>. aaid distiict may receive a portion of the township school monies; but no part of the State off county fund, until reorganization. o. How such reorganization effected. 19