Private Acts of 1947 Chapter 832

COMPILER’S NOTE:  Section 2 of this act should be read in conjunction with Private Acts of 1931, Chapter 725.  Section 1 of this act specifically amended Private Acts of 1931, Chapter 725 which is printed herein.

SECTION 2.  That each member of the present Cocke County Board of Education shall continue to hold membership on said Board until the expiration of his term and that their successors in the office shall be elected for the terms and at the times set out in said Chapter 725, Private Acts of 1931, Section 2, with the exception that, at the expiration of the terms of the two members from the Sixth Education District (as herein constituted), only one member of said Board shall be elected in and from said District; and in the Fourth Educational District (as herein constituted), T.B. Murrell shall serve as a member of said Board until September 1, 1948, and his successor shall be elected by the voters of said Fourth Educational District at the regular August election, 1948, for a term of two years, at the expiration of which a Board member from said Fourth Educational District shall be elected for the full term of four (4) years, thus making the total membership of said Board eight (8) until September 1, 1950.

SECTION 3.  That this Act take effect from and after its passage, the public welfare requiring it.

Passed:  March 13th, 1947.