OFFICE OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL OF TEXAS AUSTIN

Honorable I. Prodsold County Auditor, Ualvsstoa Gounty Oalrerton; +xas D4ar Sirs



### Yourletter of April o? this departmat whether the tlon .0oaaty 

### mafamend the oo ahsrirf with lëjaiL olerk 

### (a The dutisa of th per month. aooouats an4 books and other ruporTiiolon or M 

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### to provide the. at 

### a ralsry of $165.00 e mkecrplng all reootaa, and to have general

by a guard tltlr4,g have been perrormed. ry of $1~0.00 per month.

or 1~si4 otf;oe; and said oourt rbrll maks it8 order authorlabg th8 ap ointment or suoh drputles, cresirtants end olerkr and rsx the ooapenaation to be paid theniHonorable I. Prsdeoki, page 2

within the llmitetlone herein preeorlbed and determine the number to be appointed aa in the dlsoretlon of said oourt maybe proper; provided that In no oaae shell the Commls8lonerb’ Court 

### orany member thereof attempt to ln~lnenoo the appointment or any poraon ea deputy, aesI&ant 

### or olerk in any 

### 0fri0e.- uponthe entry 

### 0reuoh order the 

### orrioOr0 applying for euoh eesletante, deputies or olerka shall be euthorlzed to appoint them1 provided that said oompeneatlon &all not exoeed the maximumamount hereinafter #et out. The otipensetlon whioh maybe allowd to the deputies, asdetents or olerke above namedfor their servloea 8hell be areeaonable one, not to exoeed the following amount@: l * *

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### “4. In oounties having a population 

### 0rrixty thousand and one (60,001) andnot more than one h-red thousand (100,000) lnhabltente, rirat assistant 

### or ohier depty not to exoeed Twenty-four Hundred (#2400.00) Dollerr per annum; other asslrtants, deputies 

### or olerkr not to exoeed Twenty-one Hundred (#2100.00) Dollars per annumeaoh.” The 1940 Federal Census lists Galveston County as having apopulation oi 81,173 inhabitants, and the oountythererore oomea wlthin the provisiona of the etatute above quoted, allowing the Commleslonersf Court to authorlje the employment of olerka at a ralery not to exoeed Twenty-one nurdred (#2100.00) Dollars per annum. Although wehave advised that the Commlasloners~ Court ie authorized by law to allow the sheriff a olerk for the duties deaoribed, It remaina to be determined whether this new position maybe introduced into the 1941 budget by amendment at thle time.

Artlole 689a-11, Vernon’s Annotated Civil Statutes, reads, in pert, a8 follows:

“* l *Whenthe budget hae been finally approved bythe Commissionera Court, the budget, aa approved bythe Court shall be filed with the Clerk or the County Court, and taxes levied only in aooordanoe therewith, ena no expenditure or the funds of the oounty shall thereafter bemade exoept In atrIot oompllanoe with the budget ee adopted by the Court. Bxoept that emergenoy expenditurea, in ease of grave Publlo neoessity, to meet unusual and unforeseen oondit one whloh oould not, by reasonably dili been lnoluded in the orfent thought and attention, have glnal budget, may from timo to time be authorized by the Court a8 amendmente to the original budget. * * **

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This6opartaontha8puli$imerheld that what 

### oonatltutaa ugar8 

### publib n~Oaa8lt~" 

### a8 that tern ia 

### uae6 in 

### Art1010 689~ll, dopaada upoathe ?aOts in l 

### eoh oaaa andla a queatioa 

### for th(l 

### priur~ dotrrainatlon of the oeamiaaloner8~ oourt. in the l



### xerolaa of it8 pruaont judgment. 8aa our Opinion8 **~05,** 

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Wethwaiorb adrlaothat it liar wlthla the 

### prorinoa of the 

### omdaalonarat oourt te dotrrmlaa tha 

### rartareapootlng the

### u4 Wnae of a&rata pub110neoeaalt~

### 80 that the budget f ma~rlv?ully be aaondad to provide to? the

### pobltiolr of 

### jail

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JDS:lW Tour8 rety truly ATTOBWBY 

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