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received into and are owned by the defendant. There is sufficient evidence to support the finding that the school house belonging to district No. 22 is within the territorial limits of the defendant. Under these facts the liability of the defendant on these bonds would be clear, under § 144 of the act, were it not for the provisions of § 136, to which we will in a moment refer. Section 144 provides as follows: “Every school township shall be liable for, and shall assume and pay fully, according to their legal tenor, effect, and obligation, all the outstanding bonds and the interest thereon, of every school district, the school house and furniture of which are received and included within the school township, and owned thereby, the. same as if said bonds had been issued by said school township; and the law which authorized the school district to issue bonds shall apply to the school township the same as if it had originally been authorized to issue, and had issued, the said bonds. The bonds shall be deemed in law the bonds of the school township, with the same validity for securing and enforcing the payment of principal and interest that they would have had against the district that issued them.” There can be no question as to the power of the legislature to impose upon anew municipality, which includes all or a portion of the territory of an old municipal corporation, liability for the debts of the old corporation, where the property of the latter is turned over to and received by the former under the law. Mt. Pleasant v. Beckwith, 100 U. S. 514; 1 Dill. Mun. Corp. § 63; State v. City of Lake City, 25 Minn. 404; City of Winona v. School Dist. No. 82, 40 Minn. 13, 41 N. W. Rep. 539; Demattos v. City of New Whatcom, (Wash.) 29 Pac. Rep. 933; Laramie County v. Albany County, 92 U. S. 307; Schriber v. Town of Langlade, (Wis.) 29 N. W. Rep. 547, and cases cited in opinion; Knight v. Town of Ashland, (Wis.) 21 N. W. Rep. 65-70. See, also, note to [[State v. Clevenger, [Neb., 43 N.W. Rep. 243,] in 20 Am. St. Rep. 677]]. Indeed, many of the cases go much further that is necessary to support this legislation. But it is contended that School District No. 22 has not ceased to exist; that the organization of the defendant is not