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<p>OFFICE OF 
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<p>i\VSTIX. TEXAS 
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<p>-3 5, 1939 </p>
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<div class="ocr">Bon, Ross Hardin, May 4, 1939, Fage 2

"Me Legisleture shell not, except es othar-
wise provided in this Constitution, peas any
local or spocial laws, authoriBing eeseseces
regulating the affeirs of counties, cities,
towas, wards, or eshocl Gictricta; aseceeee
end in rll otixr oases where eo eaenurel lew
oan te mace a:pliceatble, no logel ao especial
laws shell be cneotedy provided, thet nothe
ing herein conteined shall be construed to
probinit the legislature from passing special
lews for the preservation af gene anc fish ‘
of this “tete in certala looalities,*

fhe osse, City of Fort Forth vy, Botbitt, 36 7. . (2)
47C, Solde axong oiler thingr, thet: “

"An Aet eprliicedle to counties having « pope
wuletion of from 35,190 te 35,200 wee ovasive
ané epecial, cf Eixson v¥, Sureon, 54 6,
&70; County Commiesioners ¥,. Spe .
159 Ind, 575, onc thet an ect authorizing
bomis for cities having between 106,000 and
116,000 inhebitents by the 1920 census being
epplicable to ons ofty held loosl lew
was en wneonstitutianal provicion," Conatie
tution Article 3, Section $6, |

The otse, Bexrr County v. Tpman, et el, 97 7. ¥. (2)
567, bolée in effect, thet: ooo

“Courte in determining whether lew is poblis,
genera), especial or loosi wili look to its
subatence as4 prectice] operetion rether then
to ita title, farx ar phreseology since othere
wice prohibition anc fundenental lew egainct
special legisietios woule be nugetery. The
Legisleture ey classify counties on besis af
populetion for purpose of fixing compensation
of county ané precinet officers but classifice=
tion must be tssed on wealth distinetion and
rust not be arhitrery devise to sive whet ia,
in substance, a local or speoisl lew the form
of a genecrel Law, hate redueing Btlarice of
officers in cauntice af 290,000 ané lese then
316,006 ropuistion beld unreesoneble and are
titrery in its classification ant void as &
special law,*

In the sese of Gray ve Taylor, 227 U, £. 51, the
cuprene Court of the United States cefined ae local law ast

*TM6 phrase Looe] lew mens primerily, et
leest, a lew in fact, if not in form, is
. Gtrected only to « specifia spot,*

We think thet whether the set or bill fn cuestion
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<div class="ocr">Nou, Roes Bardin, May $, 1939, Page 3}

is to be regerded c2 special end whetber itz operatione woclé
be uniform throurhout the Stete depends upon whether the pop.
ulst.on efforde 8 feir besis far the elsszificetion ef counties
with reference to mtteors to which it reletes and whether the
reevit it would socomplish is in fect # real eleasifieation
upon th.t besle cm not e designation af 8 single counts to
wieich elone it woule¢ apply under the guice of such cleccifict=
tion, the b111 in que -tion was so drown thet it f¢ gonerel

in fare but only epplies at this tine to Red River County and
probebly would newer apply to enother ccunty. Ye believe that:
@ sounty can be Cerieneted by description just as effectively
e: it can ba nemed arc thet the trplice tion of this bill fa

sc inflexitly fixed se te prevent it ever beine aprlicable to
other counties, -

Articles 3J&83 erd 3691, Revised Civil Stetutes, -
vices gencrelly th<t the officers named in Ar icie 3683, which
are the seme officers mamne@é in House Bill 1045, sey retein
¢ cexinum salary of not sere than Thirty-five Hundred (#3500)
Dolicrs per year in countica gonteinine ca meny twenty-five
thousend and one (25,001) ené not more then thirty-seven
thousané end five hundred (37,500) inheditants in whieh there
is no city containing 25,060 lanetitenta. .

Artiele 39lé-e, Seetion 13, provides:

“The Commizaionerat Gourt ia sounties
having « populstion ef 20,0006 inhsbie
tante or nore, and less then 190,066
inhebitants accordiag te the isst pree
ceding Feteral Ceasuz, fs hereby eath=
orizad thet 1% ehall be ite duty to
fix the seleries of e11 tle following
mamet officers, to-wit: sheriff,
afecsror ené colleetor of taxes, eoun-
ty facge, county ettorney, inclading
criminal életrict attorney and county
ettorseye who perform the cuties of
cietrict sttorneye, dietriet elerk,
eounty clcrk, treagurer, hide and
enimal inspectem, Fach of salé ofe .
ficera abell te peid in eowy en annual
eelery in twelve equal ine tsllrenta

of sot lese than the tote: ace er rnet
@& compensation by hin in his offielel
cepacity far tre fisesl yeer 1935, and
not more then the ceaximun amount ellos
suoh offiecre under jawe existing en
Aaruat 24, 1935.7"

The ebove mentioned etatutes are the genersl lews
which can be mace epplicable to Reé Eiver County, ené the
Conetitution probitite the presage of eny Loeel or erecial .
jews re-wintine the « faire of eounties, citiear, towne, wards
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