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know whfoh law 8hoold OS alderzen or a olty l oho ol tru8tee85 bore quertion ha8 b8en r&mad ~JI Oater- lntinent of trumtee8 Johool Distrlot, rhloh ir 8 dirtriot 8taaoe rho5 the olty a8um% oontml :i" it8 8ObaOl8 on August Lb, 18m. proqt “Your urual attention thlr opinion will gently appraoiatr%.*
r8qurat *2 iionorrble T. Al. Triable, page 2 The pertinent of hrtiolr g774a is 3ootion part
1, which provider a8 f01lUW81 %~w118 and oitlar which b0T8 heretofore Oh0885 tnefr trUStee8 apQOintSSnt Of th8 Oity or board cf aldsrirm, shall be authorlxed 0~~5011 l0 thi8 ma55er; to OhOOSO their 005ti5U8 tSU8t8.8 that la, by the appointnunt by tha board or aldar- aen of said olty or town; provided, that seven trur- t808 shall ba 4$pOi5t8d, thror Of Whom *ha11 8erT8 and two two year8 and two for threr for one year, J8W8, and raah year th8r@lSft8r, t&88 trUBt8.8 OT two trueteem *hall bo appointed for a term or three yoora; an& rurther provided, that 05 a petition of twonty-Sive per cant 0r the voter8 or any such city or town, to asoertalned by the ballot8 aast at the regular city eleotlon ln said oltp or town, the of 8uOh olty or town shall order an el8otfon sryor to determine whother or not th8 school affair8 of suoh olty or town shall be directed by a aohool board l loated 15 aooordaooa wlth th8 provfeionr of this ohagter; and, I5 caaa or a5y affir;aatlve vote, an eleotioo shall at onoo be ordered by the said myor, ror the purpose 0r OhOOaine( a school board oonslrtlng or %eren trusteoa, am provided in the auooeeding art iola. *
abition 7, Chapter 68, Aota or the Birth Called whlon is rapziallng olauso of mtl- iiessfun, 4lst hglslsture, 018 8774a, provide8 a4 r0il0w48 hW8 and &UAEtll Or hW8, both general “All
and apeolal, in oonfllct with the pr~vleions of thlr AOt *fe hereby r8p8a18d.*
Thl8 Opinion is bared Up05 the a88UJSQtlO5 that th4 City of &ate8Yilla 18 5Ot 4 ha4 rule Oity and 18 5ot operated under a pe~lal charter. we l 88U1DI that it :4 opersted under the general law*.
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Con4ldrrinsg tb strtutee abow quoted, yoa
are advlsod that th4 ,iot of 19;36 warn rrpealrd Choptrr 64, quoted, in part, above, snd that th* Sotrrd o? Aldrr.:un or City COUnOi1. ObcU1d OpQrst8 under m%rt1018 27744 48 it QOW a&+ pear8 ia Vemoat8 Amtotutsd Civil 4atute8, said artlala gro- tiding ror t three year t8rm 8ohoo1truatos4.