..e aGsuwe that under the statutes Utopia Independent Sohool ifi such h district 88 18 4ntitled t0 b4Ve it8 trUSlt44a designate a de~os$tory bank for the fUGd8 OS the district aad that such depository bank has. been properly saleated.

Article 2806, Revlaed Civil Statutes, provides In part as follows:

0 i Cemmoa mhoolbimtrlot.8 map in like manner h. i&hQWihlt 6OhOQl di6triOt8~ 4QA80&&8& With OO&i&lOtl# aa arut. aball ba knoun by the MY or aad the dlstrlot the independent aahool dirtriot lnoluded therein, and the management of the aq* d3etrl:iot 8haU be under the existing board of trwtew or the lndopendeut-aahool tim- triet, and all the right* 8n4 Prlvil~ea (Irantad+ Me- pandax+ dlatrfota by the law8 of thf6 &ak, *hall be &VOX& to the aonrollQte& in(lape&mnt fIi&rla$ o-ted un&r $im pro~lsions of this Jaw; . . ."

ma010 eaw, swt80d crrii .%ktut+ pr0rid~ the it at. an wmaaption eleotlon l a aJo rlty of the votera iota to U#UBO':& pay off the bonded iodebtedneu or any of the dietriots ocpoolr3ag the oon8olfdated d&&riot, thsn #mid boa&g ln6ebtdmm 8hd.l bea? the obllgtion.oi tba aonaoU&at~ &i&riot.

Artiole.ti, kb~isad Civil Statuteo, prwldea for the .aP$&.ntment of a treaaurar by lndopaa4at l ahool dirtriot kartag aoskthan one hundre&anQ ftfty soholaatiaa. Provision ia thenin meukror the treamrer to be bond& e791, s&ND84 MVllEH&Ptss, provlber for @%.in- Arti

.depea&mt school dlstrlot~aes~wor-eo~&ator o? taxes. Aytltie 8798, &wised Civil Statthus, prorid that rb4n a mjorlty of ~a8 board or truth48 0s w ia40ptta44nt .aiattiot prerer to hqa th8 tam8 6f that distrlot aroesw4 and oelleutied by the omnty atMfOmw=ed- leeteor or oolleotsd only by the ooftaty tax oolleator, s&uue almllbe alla aolleoted b* raid 44unty ~offiosn and turnetl ov4r to assowed of the inde~sndsnt ~lohool dlstriot.for whfoh l -h t~aeumr taxes hwe been aolleutsd.

'Bon. T. hi. Trimble, i,pril 10, 1939, Page 3

The former bond obligation of the Taylor Fonimon :%hool iriatrict is non the obligation of Utopia Ind8pOAd8At School District. That dlstrlot ha8 a treasurer or depository bank of It8 own. It Is duty 01 the tax collector of Bandera County to deliver to that depository all taxes which he colleots iu behalf of said Utopia Independent Sohool Di8triCt. Sot only 18 the depository bank of Utopla independent 2chool ~letrlct entltled to have the money de- po8lted with it for eafekeeping, but the Independent School ~lstrlat Itself Is entitled to have the fund8 there deposited to be proteated by the bond put up by that particular depository. Sabinal State Bank being the depository of the L'topia In~e@enUent Sahool Diatrlct,' all aueh runde belonging to the dla‘trlct which bar4 been thu4 d4- posited tn the ?irst Flatioaal Bank OS Banden shotild be trawfmrd toth~SabUal8tatoBaak.

YQUM vary truly -.