**Honorable Weaver**  **8. Baker,**  **Chdxmm**

State Board **of Control**  Austin,Texas

**Dear Mr.**  **Baker:** opialon No. o-5417

Rt: Availability

of appropriation **to G8tesvllle**  **School for**  **Boys** for "discharge

and trausporta

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.
Your letterof June 21, 1943, requeets the opinionof this Department

upon the question

whetherthe appropriation for "discharge and transportation" made to the Gatesville School for Boys in the current eleemoeyuary

appropriation

bill irmailable for expenditure, in view of the fact that no pre-existing law can be foundauthorizing the paymentof discharge money and transportation of boys dischar&ed from such cchool.

Section9 of the Act of March 29, 1887, establishing the EatesPille

School,reaa as follows: 

### "Section

y. Upon the discharge of any person 80 committed

to 8aid house of correction and reformatory, the Superintendent ehallprovidethem with a mlt of rultable

clothing

and45.C-O in money, and procuretransportation

for them to their homes, if residentof this State, or to the countyin which they may have been convicted,at his option."

In lm the 21st Lsgislatw'passed the Act of April 2, lW, "to providefor the more efficient government

and mainteunnce of the house of correction and the reformatory at Gatesvilla."
Section13 of this **Act** read a8 followe:
"Section

13. Upon the dircharge of any personsso committed

to saidhouse of correction and reformtory, the Superintendent shallprovidethem with a suit of suitable

clothing

pad $5.00 in money, and procuretrimsportatlonfor them to theirhome, If residentof this ilonorablt **Wuvwr** P. hbr, ~01 2 (O-917)

&ate, or to Vhe county in vhich they my have been convicted,or to Nch otherplace in thin State at vhich rid dircbmgmd inmate ny have procured engloymnt, at hlr oytioq prodded, that tranqortation rhdl not exceed that to the point fromvhich said convict vas convict&a. *

The codification

of the statutu in I.835 carried Article 2952, which red u f03.30~r:

**the** “Article ~952~ upon the dbcharge **of any**  permns 10 **cdtted** to nld houe of correction and reformtory, the Superintendent rM.l providethem tith a suit of Nltable clothing and $5.00 in money, and procure transportation

for them to their home, If resident of this litate,

or to the countyln which they may have been convicted,

or to euchother place in thie State at which aald dircharpd Inmate may have procured

meploynent, **at his**  optionj **provided, that**  **ruch trane**  portationshallnot exceedthat to the point from vhich said convict van convicted.”
Article2952 of tbs l&5 revision 1186 carriedforwardin 1911 revirlon

ae Article 523j of the RevisedCivil Statutes, which read as foLlow6:

“Article 5233. All lnmatos of said institution rbll be p-i&a with shelter, wholesome

food and suitable

cloth-, **books** and **othr material**  **necell mry**  **for their**  **training, at**  **the** expense**of the**  **date,** exceptas othemiee provided **by law.**  **”**

It la to be noted that in thlr rwviaion the codifiera

did not carry foruard the provbicn for providing lamstar, upon dimcharge, with a Nit of suitable clothing

end 45.30 in moneyand trumportation.
Article 5i?jj of the Ravired Civil Strtutes of lpll vas carried fonnrd tt Articlt 51.29 of the Rtristd Civil Matutu of TCPI, 1925, which nad as fou0us:

"Articlt 5l29. The Superintendent ~h8J.l divide the inutu into Nch CluMS u&d abaLlhorw, feed and train tbm in much mnaer aa he dmm beat for the develo~teadadvaacemntoftke child. All **lnmttr** &all be prorMtd tith &alter, vholeroa hod **and** clothing,

books,manr of healthful**recrea** t9.a anat



### other material

neeemsaay

ior their tnining, at the expum of tb State,except 81 otherwiseprovided by lev. ”Eosorsble **Wearer H.**  **Bsker, psge**  3 (O-5417)

**Tba m~isi011**  or 1925 -18 not 6 mm conpihtim 0f ~WV~OUS~~ ui6ting hr6, but COMtitUteS the Statutory **b3V8** of the Ststt **rsrpect** ing the rubject

to vhlch it relster, superseding

previously

l xlrtlng

l a ws w h i ch a m o nltt sd **thsrsfro6.** l * l.î --39 Tax. Jur. 10. Tbersfore, the failure to carry forvsrd the provl6lon6

of Article295.2 of **the** 1895 revisioninto the 1925 revision operates 66 6 repealtbsmof.
There la, therefore, no provision

of the gsnersllaw authorlsing the furnishing

of clothing

and the myment of 6 sum of money to, md the pr~curlng of trensportstlon ror lnm6t66

of the JuvsnFleSch001 upon their discbsrge from the Institution. The paver to do this csn not be Npplled by the generalsppropristion bill for the tleeaosynary lnstltutloxu

of the State. Aev lawsnosy not be ?assedor old one6 **repealed** or amended throughthe aedlumof a gsnerslspproprlstion bill; the purposeof suchbills Is to eupplythe **tbnds** for the current oparstians

of governmnt under existing laws, and, by Article3, Sectlon 35, of the Constitution of Texas, suchbills 66~~ contaluonly "the vnrlour eubjects snd accounts,

for and on accountof vhichmoney is sp$ropriated."To allow the yesing of 3ew laws or t,Le repealor -&sent of old ones In the general appropriation

billswould utterly &fast the purposeof the constitutional requirement

that "30 bill * + * hall containmore than one sub3ect. vhlcb 6hsllbe txmerwd - . in Its title."-- State v. Field, 57 Tex. 20:; v. Fb, $2 Tex. 454; Conley v.Bughters of the Re blic of TE, 151 S. Y. 883; Opinions

of the Attome General; 1$1.1-l.@,

p. 119; l&&ljjS, ---su--r p. 209; LetterBook 60, p.

-----+ ~1934-1936, **p.** 46, **p. 7i;**  Opinion Its. **0-25 ’**  **73.**
Since there's no law authorizing such expenditures

for the benefitof inmatte **upon** discharge, **snd the**  **appropriation** bUl
csn not rupplyeuchauthority for the resmns stated above, the oxpsnditurm**of** the item for suchpurpose 

### would vlolatc Article

3, Section 44, of the Contiitut*, 9s s. grantof nwney out of the treaewy to sn lnditidual

on a clainnot provided for by pro-existing lsv. 

### The appropriation

item le void for snotherreason. **A# above**  noted, there 1s no longersny law prescribing the purpssr **for** which sppropristlonr

**for** "discharge

snd trsnsportstlon" csnbe txptnded. In the sbsenceof such lav, the item "discharge sndtransportatl~" is vlthoti**ascertainable meming.**  The sppropristlon does not set up any standards

to governthe %penditure of such item. The amount of money to k psid the inmste upon diecharge 16 not prescribed,

nor ie the nsture of the trsnsportstlon to **be** furnished. Belther la thers any provision

by which the smountto be paid the inmate, or the cbarscter of transportation

to be fumished is in my wise limited or z-agitated. In Nch use, the appropriation 16 not "specific"

se to its purpose, sndtherefore doss not meet the requlremant.8 of Constitution,

Article 8, section6. RWF-m-U4 Vary trulyyours

- ~~z%?243 ATl!aRREY~oF~ By /s/ R. W. Fslrcblld **QQ[ERAf. OF**  **TEXAS R.**  **w. Fsfrchm** 

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