. 1 **OFFICE OF**  **THE ATTORNEY**  **GENERAL OF**  **TEXi8**

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### Honorable **T.** 

### N. Trlmble, FlretAseletant State Superintendentof Pub110 Instruotion **Austin,** 

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For further authoritiar, eee Douglae v. Campbell et al., 116 3. W. 211; King v. State, 169 5. W. 676, 37 Tex. Jur. 1062; 24 R. C. L. 644648, and 33 A. L. R. 1175.

In annwcr to your third queetlsn, we wleh to advise that we have been unable to fin& any statute pertatnlng to the tranefer o? oredits irom one ~ohool to another. This la 

### a matter which appems to be governe by regulations leeued by the State Superlntenclent of Pub110 In8truotlon. Ae we view the matter, the boy ahould not br Uenle& a transorlpt of hle m-edits, no aatter what h1.s conduct might have been. You are advised, th8refore, that the boy in question is entitled to have his oredlts tranrferred to another sohosl In conformity with regulatlons governing tNla prooefhre. However, we do not paea upon his right to attend another eohool. Yours **very** truly ATTORNMGENERAL OF TEXAS I n l.4