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§§ 547-553 such commissioners to ascertain and fix the amount the county organized under this act shall assume and pay to the county from which it segregates.

§ 547. All moneys on hand at the time of the settlement provided for in the preceding section of this act, in a county from which a portion segregates, pertaining to special funds, such as fire, school, road funds, and others, and property belonging to the districts within the boundaries of a county organized under this act, shall be turned over in full by the treasurer of the original county to the treasurer of the county organized under this act, and shall be duly receipted for by the latter and shall by him be placed to the credit of the districts within his county to which they properly belong.

§ 548. Any county in which the amount of public funds on hand at the time of settlement provided for in section 546 exceeds the total of its outstanding indebtedness, shall, after deducting such outstanding indebtedness, and after making the deductions provided for in section 546 from the amount of such public funds on hand, pay over to the county segregated from it and organized under this act, a just proportion of such funds, based upon the assessed valuation of the whole of the original county in and for the year prior to the date of such segregation, and in the proportion that the valuation within the segregated portion bears to the aggregate of the valuation within the whole of the original county. The boards of county commissioners shall meet as provided in section 546 and ascertain the amount so to be paid, and the board of county commissioners of the original county shall issue warrants for such amount, payable immediately to the treasurer of the county organized under this act, and the amount so received by the latter shall be by him placed to the credit of the proper funds of his county.

§ 549. The county commissioners of a county from which a portion segregates under this act shall immediately after such segregation redistrict their county into the districts provided for by the laws then existing, and shall fill the vacancies occasioned by such segregation in the manner provided by law for filling vacancies in county district or precinct offices.

§ 550. School districts and road districts within counties affected by this act shall be renumbered so as to make their numbers in each county run consecutively, and the names of school townships may when necessary be changed.

§ 551. When the boundaries of any school district or school township have been changed under and by the provisions of this act, that portion of such school district or school township in which the school houses and other property remain shall be holden for the bonds, if any, issued by such school district or school township, and if such portion shall have been attached to another school district or school township the school district or school township to which such portion has been attached shall be holden for the bonds, if any, of the school district or school township to which such portion formerly belonged.

§ 552. The validity of bonds issued by school districts or school townships prior to the division of any county under this act, shall in no wise be affected by such division or by the renumbering or renaming of the school district or school township that issued them.

§ 553. County commissioners while in the discharge of their duties as provided for in the preceding sections of this act,

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