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### cOntar shall pl-ap%X'e @iXl8 8nb e:pb~ifiU8tiOWJ ror improvem8nt and r8p%lr% to pub110 tiulldlngs or property or the State, end ehall superintendthrough it8 divisionof publio

. _ building8and ground8,the eonetruotlon or said work .wh8n

8uOh tiparri8iOn.i~ not oth8Iwi88BBpeeoially

pr+dsd for by lay.* Artiole 671 of the R8vi88d Statutesprovldeer
The Board of Control shall fnspeot all pl%ns and spooitioatione **tot** the yublio buildingsend the.%dditions

thereto.to be eonotruotgd.for the L i&ate before suoh pl%ns end speoifioatlons %re adopted. The Board m%y,rejcot.any and .a11

zuoh plans: and apeoifioation~~~ and it shall have full and final.euperlnte~eno~~~over %ll buildiiigs, atruotures

**or** sdilitions

thexeto that may be ocmetl?l&ed for the State.*' ,:1' Ar?Aolss 672~

and 673 prqvide **for** then inqeotloir and ex%mln%tibnand upkeep or all state building6by the

. Board of Control.

Artiolo 68i of the Revised Statutesprovide81 Vho 

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### ohieror auoh diYi8IOn,&%ll deei@ 8l.l publio~bulldings e~r8oted

at the expense or.the state wh8re~.designF. Ing is not.

otherwiseprovided for by law or by the trapropriation

bIll,.but in no inetanoe shall plan% Or dO8l@l8 be edopted by the heed of any d8pertm8nt,board, institution, sohool or prison eystcsmofthe state unless auoh designend plans ~heve been approvedby the Board.' Upon % oasusl reading or the above etatutesrelative to the various sohoole of Tex%e.andthe power of the boards of tri~&eee of eeid institution8to let the OC&r8Ot8 ior end supervise the oonstruction of' building8and perm%nent Improveme:nts

and the %rtiol+3giving the Board of Control eupervisfon

and oontrol or the oonetruotion or publio buildings there arppeara to be acme oonfliote.Honorable Harry 

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The not 0r the LegislatureIn 1919 oreating aa Board of Conlirol

apparently

had. as its objeotive

the pl,a+- ing under one board the power and the authorityto pureha.@ eupplles

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fillstate lnetltutions when same are to bm *id for out.of the'ganaral raveme& In dealingwith publIe 

### buildings

ft was 

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the purpose or the Lagislatlm to plaoe under the oonbreland @are of the Board of Goad the building6 'for.

all pub110 iuatitutions, whioh iastltmtlons ware in turn to- ba **oontrOlled** by said board, suchas the asylums and Institutesfor the blind.

Shoe the aot ot 1919 wa6 passed creating tha Board of Controlmoat of the abova statutesgivingthe **Board** or Direotors or the various e.ohoola **power** and aanti or the'erckdtlon

ofpe~anent buildingsaadthi,**purohau** od land and &ring said instltutlons~the right of aminent

le main have 'bean

passed.
We acre Informadthat It-haauev6r been the easta or the Board or Control to prepare plans and designsor ta in any way oouttiol the~.kfsd

**or** oharaoterof pemauent Wdinga emoted by any of the Stats aohoole,this havingbeu lert entiraly,tothe Board of Dlreotoreor eaoh or mid saWaL* and oollegss: The Legislature has oontinued

to **Hake** apw .prlationa

ror permanent buiXdlngaat the variouscollegea ud aohoolspresumablytith the kuowledge or the faot **that** tba Direotora of the sohoolshave been expendingthe money iada- .pendantof the Board of Control. #Ihile.thls oonstruotlan

1s not oontrolllng,

it is highly persuasive.
If the **Board** oi Txustess d the State's higba educationalinstitution8cannot let a oontraotfor the ame? tion of a building for u%ioh an appropriation has beenxade by the Legislatureuntil and unleee the plans and deniy thereforhave been approved**and** adoptedby the Board of Controlthere is no way for said buildings to be ocmstruatad If aald Boards oannot agree upon the plan8 and dealgn.

The raot that the Leginlature has for the **paat** 10 years made appropriation8 r0r the.sreotion

and omstroetioa of buildingaat these various,uuiverslties and colleges

XaHing that same would be expendedand the buildings areated upon plans and deaiguaand speoliioatlons drawn and pre& by the respeotivaBoards of Trueteesof the particularlxstitutionror whioh the appropriation was made; and the far8. _ 

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that the Board of Oontxol aa'well aa the **Board** or **Trusteea** of thene vrrlous institutlem hate 80 oonstrued eala etatute and appropriation bill **during** all of theeeyeara **are** aa **we** have ~abwe atated,Mghly pelrsqulvealthoui#i it Is not absolutely eontrolling.



### It lr or oourse the zple that oourts~ wlll ia ocmstrutng.8tattzSen



### prodrve all Etatutea, ae paseed **by** the LegI@- lature rathemtbx~bertroy ftaw and will when paeslble reoonolle apparen~ly,oon?liotlng statute8 60 **that** both or all or mme niay

be preserved.
**It** ie ilieretore o&r op%nlon that the Stati Board or Control 18 not 

### nqulred torpprwe 

### the plans and deelgns aad let oontraota-~fox theoonrtruotlon 

### of the 

### buildings or other m&r 

### ~iapmvemnts at'ths Stabe'b higher eduoatlonal

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### . s ~iAreqon&~~Uty reSb 

### tipon the rsepso~tlve

Boards 

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Yours very truly