OFFICE OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL OF TEXAS 

AU8TlN 

Honorable Bascom Glles, Commissioner 

General Land Cffiar an& 

Chairman Board ror Lease or Texas Prison 

Austin, Texas 

Dear Sir: 

By your letter 

qtmt the 0pinion or thi 

or whether the axpenses 

lease or Texas Prison la 

ror lease, may ba b 

, 1939, YOU ren the question 

board ror the 

sing the lands 

Zexas Prieon 

, you state that after 

rd ror the lease or Tex29, Fourth Called Session, 

ns& 

no other appropriation has 

of this board, and that 

as bean mada for the manses of advertising for laase and leasing the Texas Prison lands: 

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Honorable Bascom Gllea, paga 2 

By the J+2nd Legielature, an emergency approprlation was medr to extend to August 51, .3931, to the board 

iOr the lease of prison lands *to pay ror advertising for 

bids and for contingent expense . . . $500.* 

In the appropriation luldo by the same Legislature 

to the Texar Prison system, in the departmental appropriation bill, there appaarr thr item *for advertising for bids 

and aontingent expenses dt loaslng board . . .)SOO.OW. 

(General Laws, k2nd Legislature, page 7&S.) 

In the dopartmantal appropriation bill par#ad by 

ths 44th Legirlatur, there appear8 the item in the appropriation tar the Texas Prison #p&em, wadrortfrlng for bid8 -- 

lea&w page l12i. j l ,‘5oo’ *On* (General Laws, 44th Legislature, 

In the departmental appropriation bill passed by 

the l,5th Legislature, in the appropriations to the Texas 

Prison system, there appear8 the item “advertising for 

bid8 --leasing . . .$500.00n. 

It thus appears that It has boon the legislative 

praotice to inoorporats an appropriation available for the 

expenditures involved in advertising and leasing Texas Prison 

land8 by lnaertlng an item in the departmental appropriation 

bill, under the maintenance and mlacellanrous expense8 of 

the Texas Prison system. 

An examination of the departmental appropriation 

bill passed by ths &6th Legislature reveals that the 46th 

Legislature continued the praotiae. Under thr heading 

“Maintenance and Miscellaneour * In the appropriation nmda 

to the Texas Prison system in Senate Bill 127, Aots of the 

f+6th Legislature, Regular Session, there appears the following item: 

“Adverti sing for bids -- leasing * * * &25.00* 

(See Itrm 14, under tha heading "MlintemnCO 

and M.lscellaneow ,(I page 113, Senate Journal 

Supplement or June 13, 1939, aontaining the 

report or the conference oommittre on thr drpartmental appropriation bill. ) 
Honorable Basoom Glles, page 3 

You are therefore advised that the expenses or 

advertising and leasing Taxas Prison lands are to be paid 

exclusively frc~ the Item appropriated iOr suoh purposes 

by the I&h Legislature, and appearing in the appropriation 

made to the Texas Prison system. This item may not be sup- 

;l;T;tted from the appropriation made to the Gene+ Land 

. 

Trusting that thm firegoing 6atlsfaotorily annwars 

your inquiry, = are, 

Yours very truly 

ATTORNEY GENERAL OF TEXAS 

Richards W. Fairchild 

Assistant 

RWF:LW 

APPROVED DEC 4, 1939 

GERALDC.MANN 

AT’IDRNEY GENERAL OF TEXAS 

APRROVEO 

OPINION 

c0?&¶1TTEB 

BY B. W. B. 

CHAIRMAN