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

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1 Bonorabls LonAlsup **~~aoutive** Smretary-Dirsotor state Oowal~sion 

### for ths Dlind Jand Offlor wlildiag Austin, Texsa



### mar Sir: Opinion No. O-7203 Bar Whothr

opinion fr thlr lrttar, the here raqu*etod en above subjaot. RDB
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# \\ \> ogni%os thatthe thestat4~Eeion none-third

orhis ation Dfvfeion of 

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### to orhiaearviao. TheLegielAtho dapmtmntal appropriation

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### for the Blind Habalion napplio~ble to the salary or the ry-.Dfreator of th.i.8 agamy. "CnApril 1, 1946, in rsgulsr fmating the State C~mlssion ror GheBlind outhorlmd the salary of the 3xeautloe ::*cmtary-Diractor **or** the State 

### Commiesion for the Blind to ba ploaad at %&,200.00 per mnur~,Honorable LonAlsup, Fags 2

$2,400.00 to bal’romStoto funds and tha rriuaindar to be paid by lW6ral funda. TheXxroutlrs Seoratary-DIrector was authorlzstl to submit an amendment on this subject to the Texas State Flan for Vooatlonal Rehabllltatlon to the Fudsral olfiar for approval. It was thought that brrorcl the amendment to tha Texas State Plan for Vooatlonal RshabIlltatIon was submitted to the Nashlngton ofrice that a ruling should be had from your department as to whether or not the supplementation of the salary of the Xxroutlw SIoratary-Mreotcr ma legal.” In the appropriations madafor the State Oomnlaslon for the Blind (&mats Bill 317 , Aots 49th Legislature, 1945, p. 826)‘ Itrm 1thereof approprlsttos @!,400.00 per annumto be paid from tha General Revenue Fund of the State on the salary **0r** the Exsoutite saoratary-DIrector orthe 0c0unIssion. In thia item, them la a parcrnthatioal dlreotion that the Exeoutin Saoretary-DIreotor is to.raoslrs “ananma1 salary or $3,6,00.00, $2&;.00 to be paid f’romStata funds and $1.200.00 from Badoral

. In the Aot OwatIng the State ComIaaIon 

### iorthe Bllnd~, ” Andyproviding for ita or&anlaation and tunotlon, authorization Is given to tha Comiialseion to “appoint and rIx, the oompensatlon or anBxroutits Sooratary and s'uohother workers a%maybe naoreaary t;o~l~kdbrraotive the purposes or this Act withIr? the aDpropriatIon ’ P .I (Saotlon 3, Article 3207a, V.A.e.S.)

Ylhlle the aalarlaa prodded In the appropriation bill ma9not as ageneral rule be supplemented troa any other sourW, the State CoinmIssIon for the Blind In eproiiIa.slly uxamptsd froa such a rrstrlotlon (Seotion 2, submotion 14b, Sonata Bill 317, @t& Laglalature, 1945). Theepplloetion for and aoarptanoa of funds fro5 the Gorsrrqnt of the Unltrd State8 for tha State Comrnieslon tar the Blind is authorized and euch funds are appropriated %o ths apaolfio purposes authorized by the grantor”. (SsatIon 2, **Sub8sO.tiOn** 9, senats Bill 317, 49th Lqlalature, 1945.) It apprara that run&s are advanoed by the Federal government to Dtatea that have 83 apprnvhd plan ror aid 80 the blind for purposes whiah am snulasrated in a :~report to the Psdsral government filed by the State. il’it1s Q2, U.S.C.A., Sections 1201, 1202 and 1203.) If, therarora, finds are advemosd **by** the Federal government for tha purposs of aupplelnenting the salary or tha Eraautlve 2earstarpDirector of the StataJL:ms And [

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Commission for the Blind, the paymsnt of an aiidltlonal sumfrom IJsUeral funcls would bs V’wltGlnthe approprletlona providadW. (Opinion or Attorney General, No. O-6735.)

i:hethar the salary of the Rxaoutlve Saorrstary-Mreotor maybe supplanented from Federal funds depend6 upon whsther the above noted dlreotlon in the appropriations bill upsrates to withdraw or restrict the authority glvsn to the Stats Cunvnlsslon for the Blind to fix the salary ot suoh oifloar *within tb appropriations provided”. V.hl1.sthsrs Is no qurstlon that the Legislature has thaauthority to withdrew or repeal bhs authority orlglnally given to the Cummlsslon to fir ths salary of thir orrloer, it 15 not bd. lsved that suoh authority oan be cloamml to have been withdrawn by 8 parenthatlaal and purely dlnotory provlalon in the appropriation bill. Thaonly posslbla reason that can beasorlbed for this dirootlon ia the l ppro 

### rletion bill ia that the Laglslature intendad to avoid thle o,ff 

### 6or’B s befag paid rmm Faderal funda ln an amount greater than that provltlrd to be paid from %nto 

### fundrendit 

### Isnoted that the propomd ln~roae~ or$60~.00 per annumwould not dsreet suoh apurpose. It rhouid also be noted thnt in 1945 the 29th Lsglsfaturr sabablishsd wlthiu the State C~mmleslrm ror the Blind ayooattinal Rehabllitatlan Dlvlslo~and lmpussd orrtaln addltlonal dutloa upon ths Exroctlva Saoretary-Dlrrctor ortheCcmmlselon. (li. 8. 

### 347,Aote &9th Uglslatura, 

### 1945,p. 374.) This Act also provldrd ror oooparation by this Dlvislon wlth the Faders1 Govarnment.

Theroregolng oonslderaa, yvu are advlasd that it la the oplnlon or thls orrioe that the Stats Quonmirsioa 

### forths Blind Is authorized to supplement f’rolarun48 

### reocllved f’romthe Governmen or tha UnltsB States ths salary or the Exsoutlte Sooretary-Dirsotor to the extent proposed if granted by the Fedan], Authorltl8s for that purpose. Youra very truly

A~~~OQD#I la,1946 s!!Q BY Robert G. Kooh ,< .4salstant

c ,’ Assistant