*1 OFFICE OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL OF TEXAS AUSTIN

February 3, 1939 bir. c. &n-tt Potter county Attorney

San ratricio County Yinton, Texas

Dear &I-. Potter:

our letter of you ,as Ho have inter- ney Osneral or Texae aelsat an aeeeemoot , L8giiaturs or iszs, ind8- Articile a958 reasurer and an eesessof end %epen%snt School District WIN created by .slatur8, by A& of the 97th Lfigislaturs, 921, House Bill 66, found on page 1259, led See&on, and said Eill,amng other things, provides:

The bo@rCot trustees of s&i% Gregory Indepen%sae School Distriot 8r.8 hereby veatsd and Oharged with al1 the rights, pm8rs, privileges and duties Bonf8rrt3d tsttd imposed by the CI8neral Laws of this Stat8 upon trustee8 of independant school districts areated an% organlaed *2 k. C. Burtt Pottsr, February 8, lOJO, Page E

under the Oeneral Law8 OS this Stats." This Independent liohool Distriat, in our opinion, by virtue OS the authority above quoted has authority by a vote of a majority of the mabers OS its Board of Tr@ees to select a tax assessor ana ooll8otor, and suoh assessor and aolleotor can be a person other than th8 county tax assessor and collector.

Youre very truly