OFFICE OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL OF TEXAS AUSTIN

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### 10 the femwr 

### opinions oi 

### this departzent, heretofore &wntloneb, 

### ua **doem it**  **to be**  **unnroessarT to**  **repeat** them 

## here, ~6 ti,U **not** uamaesaaril~ prolong this a?lnian -4th a quotatlon of that Mob has **been** hctretofore aottlad by lmg Qontlnmd axlBtFuotlon.



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