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State ex rel. Collins, Attorney General v. Watts, County Superintendent
Smith, C. J.,
delivered the opinion of the court.
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[531] 1 o . NEMábiÓñ íbfilá%->hél& í>fe®e ^fPffiíá $thblMyá>4f i; ’■’í&ÍEf sfíveí&l -is^lídd'ld daátribf^^kc’Mdííígíf^ljé lt#®%tiÁ'as-AhedBiiíé B;rfrr‘>dis'tí5j6^!%éíf@‘I'ééB%!SÍMáíteá5,:ML ;to ohAdMííet1- aAd á.'é'SígnM'fe'd fál¡ tkíé’í!EMb,<cc9ís.Md'£t%á .^cto'ol’?distr-xci,St]i%y'SblioM ofi^híéh. éónS'oííSatfedídistíÚGt was maintained duringAhd-Mtire ■sesgÍM':ní,vÍ-9Í6-Í7sa'Tíd -ig< c&tffis ití sTgip éEM-fiNií * ?á®d!cdiíl^r‘f-SfiÜMSs? f dHlhe dieefefBy'd^ teaSbhefi,8vPák •elecléd?b^íi3íe íttd!s%^s oBttíelBiííb’^BííiSridiBMétiítb Té'áíh ítlib ■ tSbhubHefi' tkSf’SSisittífet^íoí^tób 2sgg®cMM05p39l7-^-; Íte,a#;a'|?p@l!e^-f^3íe %btiht;f> sn^bfciktdMMtíb^ffedk'éáÉ.®®, íd&-ífelMed h$ fteeñtE'áctííW'ítñ- * MSíf“iflá4r éf oE-^íi rff?ké‘| é^tíd^teat 't-líé¡f#tMiBfir:Pbad?-b'idn'3tSbB3ish.'feá^<^Blíiéx^S2i íl ■«íl 'io ^aitaom adl ‘io't íioac-n a
íbSbfbhtitoiínlt fÜ&t ■Bine-Buff d s&hdbl ‘ffia^^eátirt^ftie^S fcdibol'ik vdid^fé^ke'ykaSdií'í ing held after the 1st dá^9df^áS3g'tfet^M ¥ .sectidh 14512, Code of 1906 (section 7332, Hemingway’s Code), which provides that: ’4fe%áb M’ad^^át^naSé^-'
‘ ‘ The county superintendent shall, be president of the school board, and shall. convene-it annually, prior to the ■first day of Angnst, to- define the boundaries of the school districts of the county outside of the separate •school districts, or gtjq.^akp .^altjeRations therein, and to designate the location of the school house in each district, if not already- located::’!a-<í/o3 zrj
There is nothing in the phraseology of this statute, !ilor-’'-ah^''bthei,i,be'ariiSg>Hhdtbdfi'>whieh.''Thabt'%gglf!Mll,dd to our attention, indicating .thaT^fiS^pró^lfoíi ,tfi&fré’ó$ that '% 9.PWWel?iit TOlcaMgñfé^^JgM/^oard pri.or.jjtoidheyfefciidayj df? Asgastrfjsjinteided as aaolimita-'iiPnivupcmsahi'S cauth'Orityi toramavsneiHt' thereafter; but Oh#1 ddb&: prió'FId l^hfehvthd“b0bMa sbóhld'íTb^hbliVened was evidently fixed as a matter, not of substance, but
[532] merely of convenience in order that the boundaries of the school districts might he defined at a time early enought to permit the teaching of the schools at the next ensuing terms thereof, so that the provision must he held to be merely directory and not mandatory. 36 Cyc. 115; Koch v. Bridges, 45 Miss. 247; Keeton v. Board of Supervisors, 77 So. 906.
The question here under consideration was not presented to the court in Purvis v. Robinson, 110 Miss. 64, 69 So. 673, relied on by appellant, so that what was there said is not controlling here. Section 4519, Code of 1906 (Hemingway’s Code, section 7339), which requires the patrons of,a public school to elect trustees thereof on the first Saturday of August in each year, and which was referred to by the court in that case as furnishing a reason for the meeting of the school boards to define the districts before the first day of August, was amended by chapter' 187, Laws of 1914, so as to provide that the trustees of a school shall be elected on the first Saturday of May in each year.
Affirmed„