**OFFICE OF**  **THE ATTORNEY**  **GENERAL OF**  **TEXAS AUSTIN** Hmorable Walter Cnpson, page 2

in the petltion and defined by the Commiaaionera Court 

### to detem?Ine whetherhomea, mules, jaaks, jentm%e,and cattle shallbe permittedto run at large fn swh gounty or sqab suWtislon of 8 .aoutxty a8 asag W dewrl?md bx the petitionand definedby the Capnnisaionera 

### Court.
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#Povldee

t Articrle

16, +wtian 23 of the Oanstitiution of t&cas

' %w &e@alatuzw mar pare lay8 for the tegttltW.on

of live irtods

t@ the pyataat;ion of #toolc

rafsers:ln.thelrooak ralsfngportian of the StSte, and emupt Finn the operatianof rruoh laws otherportlpn5,seetlons,or. aoyntlesl aad 8haY.l~

hwe pawer to pass gener5.l 

### and mpeaLal laws fix the inapeatianat a&t&6, stack8 aad ,Mdes emI for the regulationof brsnd8; pravlded that imy local lav thtia paaead i&l1 be r&ubed(ted

to. th6 treehaidelr

### of the UeatLw- .

Pxinrsble %.lter CRPBOIL, page j

Other &es ‘ao&truf 7 a similar lav (Artiolee 6930 

### end 6932,R.C.S. of Texas, 1925 do not seem to have limited the rnes.nir#g@.~,~,~



### ~:tqlsa~:~.eub@i+VialoRU ,to 

### a~~knopp~p6~iti~ subdivision of ‘the aouatg.

In lnoe 8. Barber, (civ. App.)' 24i’i.W<“iii? the court h&d that under Art ioles 6950 :-aa&~2; .:+&C .8.3& 3Texas , 1925, a petition, deecrlbing the subdivlsion as, “All of,Liye o& Peninsula, berag all that portPan of said oounty bounded

on. the east by Bt@ Fish and Araneas +ye,, TO?,,:t+a@$h by, I. ArsIlctis ar+Copaxic BAya, on ths #c&h .by the northern’ %ie of San Pt3~3t34~0 

### County*va8 suf'fioignt. :.:. *:,,~l;:. '::::'::~.~.;::i::~ In the caee of Johnson w. State, (Orlm. App. S.W. 609, the court held that under Articles 6930 and 244 $32, above referred 

### to, a descriptionof E eubdlvleion of Aranrae County aa "Live Oak Peninsula, bounded on the east by Red Biah and 

### Ammeas Bags; on the north by Aransae and Copano Bqe; on the vest by 

### Copano and Puerto B~ye and on the south **by the**  line between the oouutles Sen Patrieio and Aransae” was 

### aufflcient



### . while the authorities, herelnebove

resewed to, do not oonstrue the provisions of Article 6954, aupra, ve think they me pertinent and a&mlioable to asoertaln the meatking of the term “subdlvi.slon as **wed** In aaid statute,



### We believe the provleionsof Artiole 6954, rtxpra, 

### are susceptible

of even a awe liberalinterpretatlotl, in ao far aa lta tema authorhe the 

### reqtieltemxnbe2 of petltloners 

### to presorlbebin their petition,the aree or tomitory or *subdivIsIon of the county In which en eleotlon1s to 

### be calledand held,than the efPlilar aata oonetruedin the caeea cited.

You are, therefore, 

### advleed that In our opl.nLou the petitioners

are authorised, by Artlole 6954, supra, to define 

### the boundariesof the territoryIn vhleh it is derirsdto have a rtoek lau eleationeazled md 

### held, whloh petition,lf signedby the reqtiaZteaua@e~ of freeholderr, and dercrlptlon vould proper1 be the basis of an order of the Connnls19 

### sianera'Court ca lug the eleotion, in the subdivision des-iionorableWplter Caraon , page 4

**cribed in**  the petition, and #at suoh erea may bo an unincorporated town.

Yom brief in thlernetter wae **very** helpful to us. Youru very truly 4. ,Q~~JIJED

JUN I-=,

1941 ATTORNEY C4BW3FiAL OF TKXG3

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