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comittee end their salary sud uecessary expenses _ 

be paid OR order of seid Cormlttee and all suoh. 

opployaes shall be under the direot supervision 

of sai& Ccrmitteo or its order. Eaoh or the abovo 

naoed allocations is for each year of the blenniur;?.n 

This Aat,“in oreating end liaposl~g aortain duties on 

tto Joint LeglS~atiYQ AbPiSOry Gomittee, provldetl in Artlclo m: 

flshould-for any reeson tbe Joint Xcglsiative 

Advisory Comittoe Sail or rafuae to porforn the 

Uutios herein imposed upon it or ehould the duties, 

pomm,’ end Sunatlons OS said Joint Legialatlve 

Advisory Cormlttee becone ineotlve or unenforceable, 

then, and in thet ovont i such .duties - - L - shall 

bo- parrorrz%.d by the Ztote Zjoerd. of Sduaatlon the 

sa.T8 as 5.S ~soid Co?mittee had not be-on oroated or 

authorized.” 

in b& oDInion Uo.. O-&609, we held that tha attempt . 

to vest. Zn the Joint Le~~slativc Advisory Committea the ‘duties 

er.d pomers presaribcd by the Act, aove and except the duty to, 

atudp the sahool levis in’order that the said laws night b% reoodlfied, violated the Constitution of Taxas, and thet such 

Cutlos end powers, 8800 ana exoopt the study of the Bahool 

lows, Cevolvod upon and should be axercised by the Mete Board 

of Education under the .tarms of the saving alauso above Quoted. 

,v &he. result is that the Joint LeJegislative Advisory Committea 

atill exists, but is strippad of all. pouer and authority unaer . 

the Aat rsave the power and duty of stuaying the school laws. 

The purpose ‘of the Le&slature in providir&tha‘ 

$3,000.00 epproprietion wts clearly to Surnish funds to enable 

the duties attamptea to be Imposed on the Committee to be dir+, 

-chtrg0a. When thoso duties in pert, under the Act devolvod upon 

lhc Board, it is our opinion that tha $8,000.00 approprintlon 

tooam ovafiablo to the Bow? to pay the necesos’ry cxp%raon incldont to the diechorge of’. euch duties of the Commlttce es h%?e 

by the provisions OS the Act to bo dl%charGed by the Bosrd,. 

But the CoxQi.ttoQ is still in ox1stence, and still 

h e duty to perSorin, i.e., the otwxy OS ‘the school laws. The 

tPPropriation ic to dofrhy expenses incurred in oonncction with 

all the duties originally~inpbsed on tho Committee. The result, 

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~nozalous $ho&h it my .be, is thljt we h&w au indivisibie lump ‘. 

au3 appropriation available. to the Board and the Connittee alike 

to the, extent necesoary to onoblo eaoh to perSo+ it8 respectiyo 

duties. ,. . 

The situation thus existi& l.s oue whiah presents. ’ 

practloal &iSSioUltiQs, It in txue. : This affords no basla for 

igaming the legislative mandate; r,athcr, it furniahos an ooossiou 

ior coopmotion batwen the Boerd anq the Codttee to the end 

* -thet the sppropriation mQy be expended in auah mrmer as. to effectuato the l.o@lative intent. par, exakple, YSO see no reason why, 

!r en auditor be necessary to the dioctmrge of the Sunatioss of 

the Board afid ot the Comittee es well, the respeatlve bodias may 

not, in the spLrit of oooperation, awtua~lp a@‘ee upon the appointr.&nt of an auditor, the S_ixin& OS his .salmy, .and the prescribing 

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