Opinion ID: 1822828
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Heading: motion of parents and children.

Text: The parents and children filed a motion in the chancery court asking that the appeal be dismissed, because it is said the hearing on appeal to the Finance Commission was had at a special meeting on the 2nd day of June 1961, the Finance Commission adjourned without putting an order upon the minutes with reference to the hearing, and on the 13th day of June the order of the Finance Commission was reduced to writing and put upon their minutes, and a copy was mailed to the Board of Education of Benton County on that date. The minutes were not signed until the next regular meeting of the Finance Commission on the 19th day of June 1961. On the next day, the 20th of June 1961, the Board of Education of Benton County tendered a bill of exceptions to the Finance Commission, but the Finance Commission did not sign and approve the bill of exceptions until July 17, 1961. The bill was filed appealing the case to the Chancery Court of Benton County on the 19th day of June 1961, to which was attached the various orders and the bill of exceptions tendered the Finance Commission which was later signed. The appellees, parents and children, cited the case of Gardner v. Price, 197 Miss. 831, 21 So.2d 1, in support of their contention that the Board of Supervisors could not sign a bill of exceptions after the Board of supervisors had adjourned. This case points out, however, that We are not to be understood as holding that those acts of the board which were had at the July 1930, meeting would be invalid, where the board had the authority to transact them at the August, 1930, meeting, when the minutes were read, approved and signed at the August meeting. They, however, became effective by such approval and signing as of the August meeting, and from the date of the signing at the August meeting. Merchants & Mfrs. Bank v. State, 200 Miss. 291, 25 So.2d 585; Wilson v. Eckles, 232 Miss. 577, 99 So.2d 846. Sec. 6246-12, Miss. Code 1942, Rec., granting an appeal contains the following language: In perfecting any appeal provided by this act, the provisions of law respecting notice to the reporter and the allowance of bills of exceptions, now or hereafter in force respecting appeals from the chancery court to the supreme court shall be applicable; provided, however, that the reporter shall transcribe his notes and file the transcript of the record with the commission within thirty (30) days after approval of the appeal bond. The language in the above section refers to Sec. 1313, Miss. Code 1942, Rec., which contains the following language:    and all the provisions of law applicable to obtaining bills of exceptions in a circuit court shall apply to a chancery court. Sec. 1533, Miss. Code 1942, Rec., granting an appeal in a bill of exceptions contains the following language:    and bills of exceptions to judgments overruling motions for new trials must be presented to the judge for his signature during the term or within ten days, or such further time, not exceeding sixty days, as the court may allow, after the end of the term, and must be signed promptly by him if found to be correct;    (Hn 5) The special hearing before the Finance Commission held in vacation between terms was not recorded by a stenographer as it should have been; nor was the order written upon the minutes of the Finance Commission until later when the Finance Commission was not in session, and it could not be signed until the next regular term. When the order had been reduced to writing and was signed on the 19th of June 1961, the appellant Benton County School Board promptly tendered its bill of exceptions on the 20th of June 1961, well within the time granted to the appellee to tender a bill of exceptions under Sec. 6246-12 (a), Miss. Code 1942, Rec. We are therefore of the opinion, and so hold, that the motion in the chancery court and the motion of the appellee parents and children filed in this Court, with reference to the bill of exceptions should have been overruled in the chancery court and is hereby overruled. See May v. Layton, 213 Miss. 129, 55 So.2d 460.