229.—School beard. <A board of municipal officers charged with the administration of the affairs of the public schools. They are commonly organized under the general laws of the state, and fall within the class of guaes corporations, sometimes coterminous with a county or borough, but not necessarily so. The members of the school board are sometimes termed “school directors,” or the official style may be “the board of school directors.” The circuit of their territorial jurisdic tion is called a “school district,” and each school district is usually a separate taxing district for school purposes.—School directors. See ScHooL BoakD.—School district. A public and quasi municipal corporation, organized by legislative authority or direction, comprising a defined territory, for the erection, maintenance, government, and support of the public schools within its territory in accordance with and in subordination to the general school laws of the state, invested. for these purposes only, with powers of local self-government and generally of local taxation, and administered by a board of officers, usually elected by the voters of the district, who are variously styled “school directors,” or “trustees,” “commissioners,” or “supervisors” of schools. See Hamilton v. San Diego