**OFFICE OF**  **THE A** **’ IT** **’ ORNEY**  **GENERAL OF**  **TEXAS AUSTIN**  **! ’**  **:--I=**

EoanorableC

. FLCarne& State Auditor Austin, Texas D0arSir:



### woham *aoe1o requesting the opfoion of th tfoncd subject, whloh lett

**f the**  **booka, aria**  **aooount6** Offfoe, weffnd that thrr,

that e rather large umber of euoh aooounte hare not been pald in to the General LandMfioc-in taot, 

### 672Boa. 0. R. Caraesi Pam 2

these aooounta whloh are eereral pears, amountto part of this haying boon aatually peist due, aoim ror seyeral thousand dollare, 

### iron the adsinistration limedlately prior to that of the present LandComalaslonsr. *Ie it legal for these lGntt.ers to ba handled in this rammer? Vlhether ornot it lr legal uponwhomdooa the re~ponelbllltf rest 

### ror the0~0 lieotlon or the66 oooounta for mnel due the State? Pleaae lnolnde also JOUY Opinion as to howfar moh reeponaibllity lesllg extenda- ia the oolleotlon of these runds chargeable personally to the one whoauthorized tha credit, to Wmextent that he or his bondaaen oould ba held &&ally liable if the xzmye lnyolyed are not oolleated without delay?” eeotion 29 or Article z 0r the conet1tution or the State of~Texas proride that ill fees that mapbe payable bl law ior any oeroios perrormad by the ComnI8eloner or the General LandOfriee, or in his Offloe, shall be paid, whenYeoelmd, into the State ~TreaeurP.

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### 9913Revised 01~11 Statkw~or the State of Tsras requlr+ the Land~Coamirsioner to keep a fee book in hia ofiios in whioh he shall ,enter all the fser 

### iorany serrioe mme.d in’Art$ole 

### 391&of said itatutes snd to quarterly file with the aomptroller aYerlfled aooouut or all reso 60reaciood by him, andat the end of each qoartar to pay oyar to the State Treasurer all monem~. reoelted under the proyislons of 

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Artiale 

### .3918

%eyis:cd Ciil,l $tatutao authorlzcs andrequlrea the LandOommlsslonec to oharga ior tha use of the stats as riling fee8 , ror oertifled ooplee and Patent fees the amount or Paes in eald Artiole 3918 enumerated.

iSrtior0 

### 5250Revised Ciyil Sta%Utes or Tams rf4uirea the Comlseioner to &PC bondwith three or more suretier ror 

### rirtybhouaand dollars, payable to an&to bc approved by the Governor, oonditlonad for the falkhful Uieoharge of his oificial duties.Hon. C. H. Carnero Rag' 3

ft lr the oplnlon of thlr Department that the Laod Commissioner la without authorit to extend aredlt in reapeat to the feea required bt eat& artiale 

### 3918, Revised Civil Statutes, to be ahargad by the LandCommlaalonar, onthe aontrary the Commira~onrr is to reoeire the requirti free at the tin0 of or before flline 

### or dellterlng the doaumsnta or prrformlng the aerrlaea in said statute set out and in the went the State auatalna any lose bj reamon of the Omralaalcaar extending orsdft ln reapeot to auah statutory fees), thr) Colaaziaaionot and the sureties onhis offiolal bond would be liable to the Stat0 for the.amount oi auah1088, It

New. 

### 857,In the oaas of Thurston County ?a. Chmelka

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132 A.L.R. 

### 1083,it la **mid by**  the aourtt Y’%srule for the Intarpratatlon of bonds aees~~ to be that, whsn a pub110 ofilaer gives abond for the ialthful dlaaharge of his duties, the word ‘faithful’ is held to imply that hahas assumed that meaaurs of reaponslbllity laid onhim by law, hadno bond been @tent that tha objeat of a bond ao oonditloned i8 to get,auretlea for tha performmoe of t&e duties of the oiilae aaaordlng to law, and that anything la unfalthfulneaa whloh the I&wdoes not exouae. In four latter you lnqulre uponwhoarrests tha rsapoaalbllltp to oollaot aooounta for the l ervioea of the Commlaalonar in flllng doaumenta and to? aeFtliled ooplsa ato. undn aafd Artlale 3918 Revised Civil Statute& Slaoa there is no authority onthe part ot the otilalal to oreate auoh aooounta theor la no dtatutory provision with rerpsot to the oolleotlon thereof. Throffiolal bond of the otflolal protsotr the rights of the Stat6 to rsasive the fee8 protlded for ln said Artiale 

### 3918, Pew truly 7oura, ATTORRFT 0-L O?TEXAS