1901 public laws – Ch.421 Sec.7

That J. N. Price, H. L. Price, E. M. Moore, L. G. Howie and R. H. Howie are hereby constituted a Board of Trustees for the public graded schools of Wesley Chapel School District, Union County, and they and their successors are hereby vested a hody corporate under the name of Trustees for the Public Schools of Wesley Chapel School District, Union County, and they and their successors shall have perpetual succession, may sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded in all the Courts of this State and the United States, have a common seal, make all by-laws and regulations necessary or expedient as deemed by them, for the purposes of their incorporation, purchase, sell and convey, lease, let and control all school property in said district, real and personal, proper and requisite for their corporate purposes, have power to fill all vacancies occurring in said board, to employ and dismiss all officers and teachers ot said schools, and regulate their salaries, to elect one of their own number chairman, another secretary, and do and perform all acts proper and necessary for the best advantages of said schools.