OFFICE OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL OFTEXAS
**AUSTIN**

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- .mlHonorable George Ii. Chhsppard

Caqtrollm of iPublIc **Xaoounts hustln,**  **Tsxaa**

**Dear Sir:** 



### ns84ssrryror osrtakia

unolrnt tha opinion of the state 

### mra AvaSlab3a Sob **, yau**  

## statsthat extbookoitboomma f&Ionta lneura snd thatyeadosIr 0 qusation whether

cay be n48488ary 4 lnauxxed ftr th8


### the **Constitution, gmvidea** 
be the duty of the Btets
**an ta**  **set aaide**  **a aurrioisat**  tha said **tax to**  **proviM Sr44**  text**use or**  **ctliraren** 

## attendin$ the **pub 1s**  **of** 

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**. .**  **.*** Rsvlsed C%~vil $tetutes, reads .a8fa&-

"1ch8 Stste BoJMI Ot Sdi~atlon to hereby authoriztsd

and eapw6rQd. and it i8 nab4 ita duty to **purohase** boo&e **rrosithe** oentraotors OS **textbooks oaad**  **in** publio ~XWJ eohoole or this Sate, dtndto dfstribibpte th;he ~(fso witbout othercost to the pu;;ils ottcndi~ &u&i school& .&i~thln 

### ttfs Stclte in t.F.63 manner and upon the conditions he~elnafter set out.* 

### In thb Car&r61DepartmentalAppropriation Bill of the Forty-sixth

### LaeislaturethsLa~lslaturseoufhttomire definita provieion for items of expenditure to be made by the Textbook Divlslori of the Department of Education,out of the Avallabls school 

### Fund,for euah admlnlatrstire 4xpen64 es Is Involved 

### in the purohase 

### snddistributionof free textbooks. In so 

### doingthe lmglslature did not nske any provision for travelingarpeneso to be iaourred Sn connaotloo therewith. There belug no other provision **of the**  **Ccmstltutlon** lirnltin~

tb4 power 

### 0r th Boardor Eduaationwith refer**4~04 to**  **expmditures :~rau**  this fUAd to pur4h464 and dis

### tdbute **text** books, suoh 66 

### travelingexpeneer, the **&rant** of power 

### to the Ststo Board of Eduastlon, under the term of tbs above-quoted ooustltut$oml provision *to set **said4 4**  6urfioi4nt smouut out 

### 0r the said tax **to provide**  free textbooks,” la but the grant of the power end the duty to appropriate 8ufflalent moneys out of the s &al fund 

### r4r4rroa to ror **travsling expenees.**  To ***QTOY** ds= r ime textbooka. to vurnSsh* or *supply* them. The power and the duty to detemilar how auah money nrap be neoeeaary to Vurnisb- free textbooks carrieaulth it, ee a a40466ary inoldsnt, the powerand the duty to .provlda the funds neasssary to defray the travellrig expaasst, lncldent to ths distributionol auab textbook& Yihere,

by the Conntltutlon,

### a gotierIs to be ever

### bea by a psrticulnr

### orrioer or brsnoh of th4 state ~overnarent,

the ex4roisa of that pawer Is dsnlsb, by lnpllcatlon, to all 

### others. It Is 

### to be areraised alone by, or **unc?er** the dlroction of, tbose to.whom the p4opl4, through their Constitution, have 

### oonfldedit. Elkat 'I. more, 67 Ter. 307; Ollleni v. 

### mull,58 Ter. 298;

### Wrks **'0.** 

### %%58t,

102%3X.11, 1118-B. %?6. OurGUprtliIIe Cmrt, in the ass4 ti Aneriaan Book Compsny v. Marrs, SS3 S.W. 817, said, aoaoerninc: the above-quotedprovisions Oi Artfole VII, Seotlon 3, of our 

### Constitution,that %hls grmt of po=er 1s exclusiv4 sad leaves directlywith ths Board the sole pawer 

### and duty of determlnin(5 how nruch uoney my bs neaessary.* The power and the. duty of d4te~ning and aettine aside iunds 

### EUfrfChnt to -provide fraietextbook@ havingHon. George I?.Sheppard, i%ge 3.

besn, by the Conctltutlon,exolusivelyvested in the Board of Xduoatlon, itmay not b8 lmpalrod or defeated by le(:islatlve or executive notion eeekin~ to limit lto ex8rols8 by pleoln~ restrictions on the amount to be expbnded Sor 

### travetiw expennoo.
In the DepartmentalApproprfat 8n Bill tha Lsgialature ha5 atterapted

to make an appropriat$- on.dT admlai8trative erpenoes neaeasary to prov%da rree'taxtbookaout ol the AVailable Sahool FUnd, whlah, 

### by, redqonof.ltgrfa\lUre to provide travallnf expanaec for th% illstrlb&tin tjt taxtbooke, neoee8arilg lnvol+edan unwarrantedand unoonstitutlonal invasionby the Leg.Mature or ths parer oonfsrred upon the State Board of 'Zdu8atlon to provide s~ftlolentm0neys for ths aocosnpliehment 

### or suoh purposes. 

### This power having been denied to it by the **Constitution,** it8 attemptsd exeroiae is a nullity.
You are therefo're adVi88d thst in OUT opinion the State Board oi Zduaationmay set aside oUt of the ~vvoilable School Fund euah **mount 8s**  will he auifloient to **da** fray the traveling expenses neoa5sary to be inOUrr8d in the pUrCbae8and dlstrfbutlon~ of free textbooks .tothe sob001 ahlldrea of 

### this State. Under the oonstltutional prorlsion referred to, it IS not only wlthln **the prorlnoo**  

### or the State Board of **Bdueatioa 80**  to do, but the **Conatitu** tion **srpresely makes** **it ita**  **duty to**  do 80. %'NX8 very 

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