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of lt8xao .io keroby euthorin& 8o,.mter fnto oon- 

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prar$ded that the St8te of %kx8S iaOtW6 PO li8bilftY 

f@@ th. bufl&iYIngm Wthe 81tOS.w 
Eonarable li%r~y Enox, P8ge 5 

.nrt&ol.e 679 providost 

"!!'he'BQard Or 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 superintend through it8 division of publio 

. _ building8 and ground8, the eonetruotlon or said 

work .wh8n 8uOh tiparri8iOn.i~ not oth8Iwi88 BBpeeoially pr+dsd for by lay.* 

Artiole 671 of the R8vi88d Statutes provldeer 

The Board of Control shall fnspeot all pl%ns 

and spooitioatione tot the yublio buildings end 

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%tibn and upkeep or all state building6 by the 

. Board of Control. 

Artiolo 68i of the Revised Statutes provide81 

Vho Board -or Control, through the ohier or 

auoh diYi8IOn, &%ll deei@ 8l.l publio~bulldings 

e~r8oted at the expense or.the state wh8re~.designF. 

Ing is not. otherwise provided 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 

eystcsmof the state unless auoh designend plans 

~heve been approved by the Board.' 

Upon % oasusl reading or the above etatutes relative to the various sohoole of Tex%e.and the power of the 

boards of tri~&eee of eeid institution8 to let the OC&r8Ot8 

ior end supervise the oonstruction of' building8 and perm%nent 

Improveme:nts and the %rtiol+3 giving the Board of Control 

eupervisfon and oontrol or the oonetruotion or publio buildings there arppeara to be acme oonfliote. 
Honorable Harry Knox, Page 6 

The not 0r the Legislature In 1919 oreating aa 

Board of Conlirol apparently had. as its objeotive the pl,a+- 

ing under one board the power and the authority to pureha.@ 

eupplles ro-r fill state lnetltutions when same are to bm *id 

for out.of the'ganaral raveme& In dealing with publIe 

buildings ft was evidently the purpose or the Lagislatlm 

to plaoe under the oonbrel and @are of the Board of Goad 

the building6 'for. all pub110 iuatitutions, whioh iastltmtlons ware in turn to- ba oontrOlled by said board, such as 

the asylums and Institutes for the blind. 

Shoe the aot ot 1919 wa6 passed creating tha 

Board of Control moat of the abova statutes giving the 

Board or Direotors or the various e.ohoola power and aanti 

or the'erckdtlon ofpe~anent buildings aadthi, purohau od 

land and &ring said instltutlons~the right of aminent le 

main have 'bean passed. 

We acre Informad that It-haa uev6r been the easta 

or the Board or Control to prepare plans and designs or ta 

in any way oouttiol the~.kfsd or oharaoter of pemauent Wdinga emoted by any of the Stats aohoole, this having beu 

lert entiraly,to the Board of Dlreotore or eaoh or mid saWaL* 

and oollegss: The Legislature has oontinued to Hake apw 

.prlationa ror permanent buiXdlnga at the various collegea ud 

aohools presumably tith the kuowledge or the faot that tba 

Direotora of the sohools have been expending the money iada- 

.pendant of the Board of Control. #Ihile.thls oonstruotlan 1s 

not oontrolllng, it is highly persuasive. 

If the Board oi Txustess d the State's higba 

educational institution8 cannot let a oontraot for the ame? 

tion of a building for u%ioh an appropriation has been xade 

by the Legislature until and unleee the plans and deniy 

therefor have been approved and adopted by the Board of 

Control there 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 buildinga at these various,uuiverslties and colleges XaHing that same would be expended and the buildings areated 

upon plans and deaigua and speoliioatlons drawn and pre& 

by the respeotiva Boards of Truetees of the particular lxstitution ror whioh the appropriation was made; and the far8 
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Henorsb~ct Ea~zr Knot, Page 7 

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 theee yeara are aa we 

have ~abwe atated,Mghly pelrsqulve althoui#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 rathem tbx~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 inetltutfonr . s ~iAreqon&~~Uty reSb tipon the rsepso~tlve Boards 

ot rb&mtc~ or maid lnstlt~tions. 

Yours very truly