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<p>OFFICE OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL OF TEXAS 
AUSTIN </p>
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<div class="ocr">480

Hcnorpable -cwight wShitewell - rare 2

umount wae paid for several years, but in rocent
rearpe hae deon rataed mtil at the vcresent. tive
the salary of the County Treaevrer is fised at
$22.50 per month. 3 weuld elso ea]1 your atten=
tion to the feet that fn 1940 according to the
taderal Census the population of Cellin County
ie ctvom at 47,190.

"our Coun ty Treasurer hae wade reqnest of
our Comsiswionera’ Ceurt thet ber salary be in-
sreared to the eum of $3,000.% per annus and
that ahe be paid edditicnal satary free the first
oP Janveary 1946, whoa she took office ur to the
~premmt time #0 ag to wake hor past compensation
at ths rate of $2,097.00 per year,

"44132 ven kindly advise re if House AJIT xo.
371 fa a Valid statute, and if {t still arnifles te
“attin Coumty in view of the population shonze in
the 1°49 census, and atate ehether or not in roar
oninion thin special ect controls the authority of
shh comet asionera! Court in thia County or ts the
copriseetoners' Court beund by tha provigious cf the
amepal Salary law, which in the alseente of this
anpeieal act, vould require the County Treamnrer te
te refid $2,000.00 per year.*

House Bilt Na. 1614 of the 46th Legislature, Reeniar
Seneion, avended Articole S0i2@, “Section 13, Revieed Civil stat-
utea of Texea, bY adding therete the followings

"(e}. The Comfiaeioners Courts of tha re-
spective counties of Texas having a porulation
af moro than forty-aix thousand, one hundred
(48,109) ond leas thas Corty-anlx thonsand, tve
hundred (46,260), accordins ta the laat oreced«
ing Ffodarat Tenaua, are hereby suthorized te
fix the salary cf the Courty Tresenrer of their
particniae eonunty at any am not tase than Fifty
tatiarea (450) rer sonth. In the datertination
of much salary the Court will consider tho foas
racatved by such office during the craceding fi s-
ent vear, the cxypmace of that office during tho
sara terted, and tha ratative duties tneurbent
m sueh officer: ont ehal) in their aAiscratirn
affax ta enpch office aweh comransation as they
deem fuat and necoseary Tor the services render-
ad, <ithin the tiwits tereinbeforn  crovidad.®
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ponopable “wight thitwelt - page 3

Your gquestione are al! sneawered by the concluston
ve fave Pesshed te the effeet that Houge 211] Yo. 161 1a voile
oa HOtaae In contravention of the Constitution.

Saetion 86 of artiele 1IZ of the Conatitution »re-
vtipe]e ;

"The Lexinlature abel! not szcept as other-
viee wrovided in this Constitution, pases any ta-
23a? op special flaw, © * @

*nemlating the affaires of counties, cities,
‘sme, Wards op echool diatrieta. # * @.*

in Boxar County v. Tean, OF §. ¥. (2) 467, the Come
"iondon of appeals te the Suprese Vourt hold that a bracket
“totute similar in form to the one here involved was to be re-
“nivigd ag rupoly a lceal bill, void under Seation 55 above
gretode In that osintion, however, the seurt said:

*withont ening inte a detailed discussion of
she Aet of April 3, 1933, we will state that on
‘te face it rurpertes to be # cenersi Ter, and ve
set? thet hecsuse it ray heave apnited to onty one
county in the state et the time of ita renrazce,
this did net eslione mate it A special or tocal lav,
in view of the fact that {t wae not so franed as
to ozelnde the probebility that it reuld apriy te
ether counties tn the future. The Legistature sar,
uron a Frreper end renaonable elansification, enagst
a reneral law ehtich af the time of its mactzont
te apslicable ta mnly one county? rprevided its ap-
plication ie not «oc infiazibly Mixed aan to rrevont
it over being applicable te other counties.*

The court then entered into a d{aecusaton of the teste
Tringiots of claaaifiention ag support for spacial treatment of
aubjects hy the legetslatura, citing Clark v. Finley, 93 Tez.
173, "4 Se We 243, to the effect that substantial differences
in ~ornlations of counties could he wade e basta of legtolation
fixine sonpensation of efficera on the theory that the gork ie-
Folving uyen an officer wae in some cerreo proportionate to the
ronntation of the county.

In s41ller vw. 21 Sasa County, 180 Ss. &. (2) 2900, the
fuvrera court «fted ith arrrarat the Clark-Finloy and the Serer
Countrvefyan cases, and said:
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