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 annex one part of said town or village to the adjacent school corporation, which includes the other part of said town or village and the part so annexed shall constitute a part of such adjacent corporation.

§ 41. WHEN PARTS OF THREE OR MORE DISTRICTS MAY BE CONSOLIDATED INTO A SEPARATE SCHOOL DISTRICT.] If in any county organized at the time of the passage of this act for school purposes under the district system, a school district includes part of three or more civil townships adjacent to or including the common corner of such townships, and has a school house costing $2,000 or more standing within one mile of such common corner of such townships, the one-fourth of each of the four civil townships, three miles square, lying adjacent to or including such common corner shall constitute a school district.

§ 42. WHEN CIVIL TOWNSHIPS MAY CONSOLIDATE INTO SCHOOL DISTRICT.] In any county not organized for school purposes under the district system at the taking effect of this act, if a civil township having less than fifteen persons of school age residing therein, by reason of the irregular course of natural boundry, contains less than twelve sections or square miles of territory, it shall constitute a part of the adjacent school district with which it has the longest common bounary line.

§ 43. NAME.] Every school corporation constituted or formed by the provisions of this article, shall be designated a school district as distinguished from a civil township or congressional township, and shall be named as follows: Every school district which consists of a civil township, shall be named the.....school district of.. ....county, State of North Dakota, with the name of the civil township which constitutes the district inserted in the blank before the word "school," and the name of county in which it is situated inserted before the word "county." Every school district which consists of territory not organized into a civil township, but which has been named by a distinctive name, shall have such distinctive name inserted in the blank before the word "school." Every school district consisting of territory not organized into a civil township which has no distinctive name, shall be named school district No..of..county, State of North Dakota, with its proper number inserted in the blank after the word "number," and the proper name of the county inserted in the blank before the word "county;" Provided, That in every county organized for school purposes under the district system at the taking effect of this act, the several school districts shall retain and be known by the number which they have respectively at the time of the taking effect of this act, and any school district hereafter formed in any such county shall be known by the number next higber than that of the highest pre-existing numbered district.

§ 44. WHEN BOUNDARIES TO BE RE-ARRANGED AND ESTABLISHED.] The county commissioners and county superintendent of schools