**OFFICE OF**  **THE ATTORNEY**  **GENERAL OF**  **TEXAS AUSTIN** 



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hulk rt al v. khool idstrictkc. lg8 i&rrla county, 198 s. ii. 869 (Cfv.App. 1910) 1 aoll wondering it it le pay dirty to paw on tba matter.

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eon. Guy Turner, page 8

"Eleaee advise ii ? have any superpision

OS rundr belolyingto Uistrlata.* autborStyor Common sohool

i%%@te Bill %O. 4Q9 (hctl lf#sT, 45th Lagi8$&ul'a, p. la%, Ch. 4771, reS@rredto in your latter, tins carrid Sornar8 in ~ernon*a hnotate4 Civil Ltatutes es Article WOO&1V. ikgtion 1 OS thle Artlole provides in part OIJ Sollourr "~0ctiOn 1. In all oountieaOS ths stat* OS Texas having 8 populationOS not lerr than 8hir8y- ,two thoueand eight hundrad (55,800)au4 not more thn thirty-twoth:~uIend eight hundred thirty (8lt,B50),

. the salary of the County hiuperintondmlr of k&lo Inatruotion @hall be not le.8 than ‘ho Thoruud hwen Hun8rod glfty ($8,780.00) Dollar8 cad not mi3ra than Three Thousand ~~050.00).Dollirrper mm,, the amount OS *Ioh ralary ehall bo Slxod by tha order 6f the,CountyBoard OS tiuoatlon Sor the rerpsotlve oounties,and the Uounty **Board** OS **Wuoatiaa~for** oeah OS the oouutiocr eomin$ within thin Ml1 still, by order entared in ltr mlnutoo,met tlu oalary tar eao& OS their rempeatiro uuuntie8." The oSfiola1 1940 Cermur report dlaolo~er**that** Danten Countynow hea a populationOS 83,488,be-, a8 rtato& in **pw** letter, in exoe~~ OS the Se,550maxImam

### vdthln tb lumimbow mntiomd aot. You are, thoratom, nspaotiully a&leWd that it 18 th8 opinion OS thin Department,uador the faota &at&l, that ~a# are oorrect In your oonaluelonthat the salary at the eount~ 8OhOol superintmatent OS Dimton County 16 no longar to h d&ormined Srom the prwleiloni~ OS Artidle t900d-17 for the reason that said kticLI) no long.sr appllrs.toDenton Couut~. IQ the cam'oi Eokon' National Exohanga Bank f

. s&m01 DlstrioC H&L,ze5, &rrir County, 1.85 S. i';, 589, the &d.Te88on Court of Civil Appeals in 1516 held, thet the oounty euaitor wae not authodeed or requlreb to approvevouohers drawn on ?unda of the aoamon aohool tistrlotof the county. It was observed in this aame that school Sunde em not fun&e "Sor the use or, or belonging to, the aounty,"over whiab Artfole 1051, 8. c. s. or 1985, premoribesthe oounty auditor'sduties, but- 

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tbrt tbe eoze 6re state fund& r;biaD 8ro hsld by the county merely ac truotoo Sor the publio Srso sohoolo,and that ouob oobool funde are mbjeot to the ouporvlolon OS tbo sohool ofslcors, ouch aa tmoteoo, euporintsndento, oto. - Under Article &327s, Vernoa’o~~0tiit8a ClrFl Gtatuteo, the salary of an aleotire county rohool euporintondont lo pritl out of the 8ttato

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School 3~6, POU ore, therefore,roopeatiully advised t&at It is the Q E inion of Wil8 Dopartmont , under **the** Slats stated, thot 8lnoo t o oolory of the oounty oohool ouporintondent OS Donton Coti i8 pclid Out 0s OOhOOl fund0 #bud BOt OUb Of fuRdi3

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. #e are onoloOing herewith oopio8 OS our opini~on8 so8. 04038, 04TS4 and Q-P954a. hero0otoro rendered by the prorent Wi?AnimtratlOn OS this Ds~putaient, whhioh, we bolloro, will Sully fmowor yoiir last quest&on.

Very truly yours

IiPIIp APPROVEDJm 23, 1941