poses only in Texas, including the right to vote a special tax not exceeding one-half of one per cent on the assessed valuation of taxable property in said independent school district for the maintenance of its public schools and to vote for and issue bonds for school purposes as provided by the general laws for towns and villages incorporated for free school purposes only.

SECTION 3. The affairs of said Itasca Independent School District shall be managed by a board of seven trustees, who shall be elected by the qualified voters in said independent school district at the time and in the manner provided by general laws for the election of trustees in independent school districts; provided, that upon the passage of this act, the County Judge of Hill County shall order an election to be held in said. independent school district for the purpose of electing four trustees in addition to the three trustees who are already serving as such; provided, further, that it shall be arranged by lot that the term of three of said trustees shall expire in one year, and the term of four of said trustees shall expire in two years; and thereafter the trustees shall be elected at the time and in the manner provided by general laws for the election of trustees in independent school districts in Texas. The present trustees in said school district may continue in office until the expiration of their terms respectively, and they are hereby constituted and appointed as members of said board of trustees. Any vacancies in said board of trustees shall be filled for the unexpired term by the remaining members of the board.

SECTION 4. Said trustees shall organize by electing from their number a president, vice president, secretary, treasurer, and tax assessor and collector; the offices of secretary and treasurer may be held by the same person.

SECTION 5. The said board of trustees shall be vested with the full management and control of the free schools in said independent school district, and shall in general be vested with all the powers, rights and duties that are provided by general laws for trustees in town and villages incorporated for free school purposes only, including the powers and manner of taxation, issuing bonds, buying grounds, and buying and erecting buildings and improvements, and all materials and supplies for school purposes. They shall also have the right at any time in their discretion to sell and convey any real estate belonging to said independent school district not needed for school purposes.

SECTION 6. Upon the passage of this Act all real estate and other property belonging to the Itasca School District No. 72 in Hill County, shall at once be and become the property of the said Itasca Independent School District.

SECTION 7. The said Itasca Independent School District, and the trustees and officers thereof, shall be governed in all things by the general laws of Texas for towns and villages incorporated for free school purposes only, except as otherwise provided in this Act.

SECTION 8. The crowded condition of the calendar, and the fact that Itasca School District No. 72, is a common county district and does not meet the present demand of the public school interests creates an emergency, and imperative public necessity that the constitutional rule requir

ing bills to be read on three several days be suspended, and the same is done, and that this Act take effect from and after its passage, and it is so enacted.

[NOTE. The enrolled bill shows that the foregoing act passed the Senate by a two-thirds vote, yeas 22, nays 0; and passed the House of Representatives by a two-thirds vote, yeas 91, nays 0.]

Approved April 17, 1905.

Became a law April 17, 1905.

AMARILLO INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT-INCORPORATION OF.

S. B. No. 307.]

CHAPTER 136.

An Act to authorize, enable and permit the territory situated within the bounds of the city of Amarillo, in the county of Potter and State of Texas, and other land and territory adjacent thereto, to incorporate as an independent school district for free school purposes only, to be known as the Amarillo Independent School District, with all the powers, rights and duties of independent school districts formed by incorporations of towns and villages for free school purposes only.

Be enacted by the Legislature of the State of Texas:

SECTION 1. That the territory situated within the bounds of the city of Amarillo, county of Potter, and State of Texas, incorporated for municipal purposes under the General Laws of this State, as a city of one thousand inhabitants and over, and other lands and territory adjacent thereto, as hereinafter described and bounded, is hereby authorized, enabled and permitted to incorporate as an independent school district for public free school purposes only, under the name of the Amarillo. Independent School District, in the manner in this Act provided.

SECTION 2. The territory hereby created into said independent school district is hereby described and bounded as follows: Beginning at the northwest corner of section number 222 and the southwest corner of section number 221, certificate number 714, A. B. and M. survey, Potter county, Texas. Thence east with section lines seven miles to the northeast corner of section No. 102, certificate number 672. Thence south with the section line eight miles to the southeast corner of section number 109, Randall county, certificate number 621; thence west seven miles to the southwest corner of section number 229, certificate 639. Thence north to the place of beginning.

SECTION 3. The county judge of said county of Potter within ten days after receiving the written application of not less than one hundred of the qualified electors of said territory hereinbefore described, shall make an order for holding an election on a day therein named, and at a place therein designated, within said territory, for the purpose of submitting to a vote of the qualified electors of said above described territory, the question of incorporating as an independent school district, under the name of the Amarillo Independent School District under the authority and provisions of this Act.

SECTION 4. The said county judge shall appoint an officer to preside at said election, who shall select two judges and two clerks to assist him in holding the same, all of whom shall serve without compensation. Ten days previous notice of the time, place and purpose of such election shall be given by posting advertisements thereof at three public places within said above described territory; and except as herein otherwise provided, said election shall be held in the same manner as general elections under the general laws of this State, a return thereof shall be made to the said. county judge within five days thereafter.

SECTION 5. If a majority of the votes cast in such election shall be in favor of such incorporation, and shall be so returned to said county judge, said school district shall thereby be and become an incorporated independent school district under the name of the Amarillo Independent School District, and shall have, possess and exercise all the powers, rights and duties of independent school districts formed by towns and villages incorporating for school purposes only; and the said county judge shall cause an entry thereof in the records of the county commissioners court; and said county judge shall, within ten days after receiving said election returns, order an election to be held in said Amarillo Independent School District for the purpose of electing seven (7) school trustees, four (4) of whom shall serve until the regular election in May, 1906, and the remaining three (3) shall serve until such election in May, 1907. The seven (7) trustees elected at said election shall, as soon as possible thereafter, determine by lot which four (4) of the trustees shall serve until May, 1906, and which three (3) shall serve until May, 1907. Said seven (7) trustees and their successors shall be elected and qualified in the manner provided by the Act of the first called session of Twenty-sixth Legislature, approved February 21st, 1900, entitled "An Act to provide a uniform method of selecting school trustees in independent school districts," etc., as amended by the Act of the Twenty-seventh Legislature, approved April 18, 1901, and further amended by the Act of the Twenty-eighth Legislature which took effect ninety days after the adjournment of said Twenty-eighth Legislature.

SECTION 6. Such incorporated independent school district and the said trustees and school board thereof shall be vested with and have, possess and exercise all the rights, powers and duties of independent school districts and of the boards of trustees thereof, formed by towns and villages incorporated for free school purposes only, under the provisions of Chapter 45 of the General Laws of the State of Texas for the year 1897, Chapter 15 of Title 86 of the Revised Civil Statutes of 1895, and the aforesaid Act, approved February 21, 1900, so far as the same. are now in force, and any act amendatory thereof, as to voting, assessing, levying and collecting taxes for school purposes and as to voting and issuing coupon bonds of said independent school district for the purpose of purchasing or constructing free school buildings, and as to having full management and control of the public free schools of such incorporated independent school district, and as to the organizing by choosing from their members a president, and by choosing a secretary, a treasurer and an assessor and collector of taxes, wholly free and independent of and

from the control, interference and powers of said incorporated city of Amarillo.

SECTION 7. The near approach of the close of the present session of the Legislature, and the crowded condition of the calendar of both the senate and the house, creates an emergency and an imperative public necessity that the constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several days be and the same is hereby suspended, and it is so enacted, and that this Act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage, and it is so enacted.

[NOTE. The enrolled bill shows that the foregoing act passed the Senate by a two-thirds vote, yeas 28, nays 0; and passed the House of Representatives by a two thirds vote, yeas 99, nays 0.]

Approved April 17, 1905.

Became a law April 17, 1905.

FLOYDADA INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT-INCORPORATION OF.

S. B. No. 320.]

CHAPTER 137.

An Act to authorize and permit the territory situated within the bounds of the town of Floydada in the county of Floyd and State of Texas and other land and territory adjacent thereto, to incorporate as an independent school district, for free school purposes only, to be known as the Floydada Independent School District, with all the powers, rights and duties of independent school districts formed by incorporations of towns and villages for free school purposes only.

Be enacted by the Legislature of the State of Texas:

SECTION 1. That the territory situated within the bounds of the town. of Floydada, county of Floyd and State of Texas and other lands and territory adjacent thereto, as hereinafter described and bounded, is hereby authorized, enabled and permitted to incorporate as an independent school district for public free school purposes only, under the name of the Floydada Independent School District in the manner in this Act provided. SECTION 2. The territory hereby created into said independent school district is hereby described and bounded as follows:

Beginning at the S. W. corner of section 3 certificate No. 14 original grantee G. W. T. & P. Ry. Co.; thence east seven miles to southeast corner of section 115 certificate No. 471 original grantee A. B. & M.; thence north seven miles to northeast corner of section No. 25 certificate No. 1249 original grantee A. B. & M.; thence west five miles to N. W. corner of section No. 33 certificate No. 350 original grantee A. B. & M.; thence north to the northeast corner of section No. 85 certificate No. 729 original grantee T. T. R. R. Co.; thence west nearly two miles to the northeast corner of section No. 37 certificate No. 49, original grantee A. B. & M.; thence south a little over two miles to the north line of survey No. 19 certificate No. 90 original grantee S. F. I. W. Co.; thence west to the northwest corner of the same survey No. 19; thence south five miles to the place of beginning.

SECTION 3. The county judge of said county of Floyd within ten days after receiving the written application of not less than fifty of the qualified electors of said territory hereinbefore described, shall make an order for holding an election on a day therein named and at a place therein designated, within said territory, for the purpose of submitting to a vote of the qualified electors of said above described territory the question of incorporating as an independent school district, under the name of the Floydada Independent School District under the authority and provisions of this Act.

SECTION 4. The said county judge shall appoint an officer to preside at the said election who shall select two judges and two clerks to assist him in holding the same, all of whom shall serve without compensation. Ten days previous notice of the time, place and purpose of such election shall be given by posting advertisements thereof at three public places within said above described territory; and except as herein otherwise provided, said election shall be held in the same manner as general elections under the general laws of this State, a return thereof shall be made to the said county judge within five days thereafter.

SECTION 5. If a majority of the votes cast at such election shall be in favor of such incorporation and shall be so returned to said County. Judge, said school district shall thereby be and become an incorporated independent school district under the name of the Floydada Independent School District, and shall have, possess and exercise all the powers, rights and duties of independent school districts formed by towns and villages incorporating for free school purposes only; and the said County Judge shall cause an entry thereof in the records of the county commissioners' court; and said county judge shall within ten days after receiving said election returns order an election to be held in said Floydada Independent School District for the purpose of electing seven (7) school trustees, four (4) of whom shall serve until the regular election in May, 1906, and the remaining three (3) shall serve until such election in May, 1907, the seven (7) trustees elected at said election shall as soon as possible thereafter determine by lot, which four (4) of the trustees shall serve until May 1906, and which three (3) shall serve until May 1907.

The said (7) seven trustees, and their successors, shall be elected and qualified in the manner provided by the Act of the First Called Session of Twenty-sixth Legislature, approved February 21st, 1900, entitled "An Act to provide a uniform method of selecting School Trustees in independent school districts," etc., as amended by the Act of the Twentyseventh Legislature, approved April 18th, 1901, and further amended by the Act of the Twenty-eighth Legislature which took effect ninety days after the adjournment of the Twenty-eighth Legislature.

SECTION 6. Such incorporated Independent School district and the said Trustees and school board thereof shall be vested with and have, possess and exercise all the rights, powers and duties of independent school districts and of the board of trustees thereof, formed by towns and villages incorporated for free school purposes only, under the provisions of Chapter 45 of the General Laws of the State of Texas, for the year 1897, Chapter 15 of Title 86 of the Revised Civil Statutes of 1895, and the aforesaid Act approved February 21st 1900, so far as the same are now