**OFFICE OF**  **THE ATTORNEY**  **GENERAL OF**  **TEXAS AUSTIN**  11

Honomblo 9. C. smith Coullt~

AttorneJ BosqlJo

County Herldlan, **Texas**
**Dear** Sir:

**of** this **department,** purchasingagent of the Comnlsprinted sheets for **an** exact duplicates &a of trust used by Uhen ona of those record ln the office of 888 this prfnted fom, e names, the descriptionof the such other blanks as may be necesthe regular statutoryrecordingfee trument.
. . . t1y a local represeJntatire of ml. **k** has contended that the clerk has no legal right to charge the ngular fees alloved for recording the parts 02 these instrument8 vhlch the **countr** has had printed, but should only &args for the parts vrltten in, such as the descriptionof the lands, etc.
ln b;i!~t3~f&ii!i tay::if! t ~na~~~~&~#i~ the instrumentfiled for wcord, I have advised that the clerk has the right to colleat the regular statutory fvo allourd for the recor@.ngof the sntlrr lnatrument .’

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Artlolo 6591, **lkv1s.d** Civil Statutes o? Texas, ,pkovides8

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