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<p>OFFICE ,OF THE ATTORNEYGENERAL OF ‘TEXAS 
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<div class="ocr">Menorcble Stanley Eulawik, Page 2

Deliare ( of per math a traveling expenses
) peor nenth as expenses

Sele e All lows and parte of lews in
comfliet herewith are hereby repesled,

"Sete 3. The facet thet ceinrios and
traveling expenses for County Commlcsicnars
in countisa affacted ty thin Aet are sroesly
fradecucte creates an energency ent an Lanerae
tiva public netecality thet the Constitutional
Bule requiring dilis to be read on three
severel cdeys be rusrended, znd said tule is
hereb. anevented, ond thia Aet shell take
effect cnt ve in ferce from ant after its
pes@are, ant it ts so enacted.

wpassed by the Hause, Fabruary 26, 1641:

Yeas 129, Noyes 0; House refused bo oone

eur in Senate anendnents, Karch 26, 1041,
ani re ted pointment ofa Confer
teee to itter-

afopted the Conterense Comatttes Report,
Har if, 10411 Yeas 116, Maye 0; passed
by the: Jennte, as ananied, Merah 26,
L¥41: Yoas 2a, Haya 13 a: "request of
House, Senate "appointed a Conferende
Comalttes and Senate adapted Conference

Comsistes Report, May ©, 1941: by a

viva
“ries eet tbeat the Covernor's ailguature,
wartuctive 00 days after date of ad jouanents*

“Thare is « question in wy ming es to whe-
eer this act sotually became a law ten days
May 86, 1941, or whether ig setml ant

daly bevoaed sf efrective as ae oyaged in the So"

atte ante of ad journseat, whiok a ome,
would be 66 éays fron July 4, 1 $4)

This departnent hes written many 9 holéing
that siniler bills, wWileh sesk to fix the en of ocunty
officers in « partioutar county, are is violation of Seation
26 Bs Article % of tha State Conatitution, which orovites gn
darts
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<div class="ocr">Honcr:tle Stanley Kulewik, tage 3

. “the Legislature shell net, extept as .
otherwise prowided in this constitution, pass
any lo¢al or specie] law, authorising:

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“Hegulating the affsirs of aounties, oities,
towns, wards cr oehool disiriete;

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wend Gn ell cther caces where « geceral law
can bo mode epplieabic, nc leenl .: sceclal law
gnall tbe enacted; provided, tast xcthiac herela
auntained shal) ue eoagtrue’ ts prohibit ths
Laglalature fro= veseing speelal laws for the
preservation of the gana ané flak of this State

sertain localitioas” oo

Your attention is Girested te Articole £250, Yere
nonts annotated civil Statutes, which ia the general lew |
fixing the snleries of counts commissioners, se heave care~
folly considered House Bill 566, whieh is quoted above, in
eonneetion with Seation 56 of srtiole 3 of the State Con=
stitution, ané the cases of Berar County v. Tynan, at 01,
97 Se We (BA) 467 and lier v. Hl Pass County, 1b0 5, We
(24) 1000, and the authorities cited therein: ant it is
the epinian ef this dopertemat that House | 3S, suprm,
ig a special or lecal law seadciag to fix the salaries of

unty offleers, nenely, the gounty comeiesionere, end is
therefare unsenetitutionel ané rold,

... B® 46 ip our opinion that the above mantiosed 6111
ie uneonstitational and wold, the question subaltted ia yor
inquiry velative to the effective date of said Howe
becomes moat, ewever, if said act had bees walid, 16 would
become effective 96 days after adjourneest of the Legislature,
or on Ostober &, 1041. .

‘Yeusting tint the foregoing fully enewers your
inquiry, we axe .

Yours very truly
194 ADVORNZY GENERAL OF TEXAS:

WF
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