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 § 37. WHAT TERRITORY MAY BE ORGANIZED INTO DISTRICT SCHOOL CORPORATIONS.] The county commissioner of every county not organized for school purposes under the district school system at the taking effect of this act, shall organize into a district school corporation any territory not at the taking effect of this act already organized into a civil township or a school township, upon being petitioned so to do by one-third of the residents of such territory having the care and custody of any child of school age; Provided, Such territory shall consist of not less than one congressional township, that it shall have at least $8,000 of taxable property, and that at least ten children of school age reside therein. The county commissioners of every such county, with the advice and counsel of the county superintendent, may rearrange the boundaries of any school corporation whose territory is not included within a civil township, when petitioned so to do by a majority of the voters residing within each such suhool corporation whose boundaries will be effected thereby, subject to the same restrictions and conditions as to extent of territory, value of taxable property and number of resident children of school age as in the organization of a school corporation from territory not included in a civil township. In the formation of school corporations and the rearrangement of their boundaries, as provided for in this section, the boundary lines of congressional townships shall be followed as far as possible as school corporation lines.

§ 38. NEW SCHOOL DISTRICTS, HOW FORMED.] In any county hereafter organized, the county commissioners shall so divide the county, or the parts thereof, which include every congressional township in said county which has residing therein not less than ten children of school age, into school corporations as will best promote the perimanent interests of the public schools in the county, upon the same petition and subject to the same conditions and restrictions contained in Section 37 of this article.

§ 39. WHEN SCHOOL CORPORATIONS MAY BE DIVIDED AND ATTACHED TO OTHER DISTRICTS.] If a part of any such school corporation having not more than ten children of school age residing therein, is separated from the other part of such corporation by any natural obstacle which practically prevents such children from attending school in such other part, the county commissioners of the county may annex such part so separated from the other part to an adjoining school corporation, and the part so annexed shall constitute a part of such adjacent corporation. If such adjacent corporation lie in another county, the county commissioners of the two counties may jointly make such annexation.

§ 40. HoW DISTRICT SYSTEM MAY BE CHANGED TO TOWNSHIP.] In any county not organized for school purposes under the district system at the taking effect of this act, if a town or village not organized into a special school district be divided by a civil township line, the county commissioners, when petitioned so to do by a majority of the voters of each part of said town or village, may