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

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Mard fros the Steak Cmpoay of Au8tln at the price stlpulatcd in the oontmot? "2. **Tf your**  **answer to**  

### the abcte qur6tloa **should** be 'ym', pleasecldvlsa us lf tha bon4 attachedto thl6 Oont~Ot roll1

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in f0m0 nad effeotaa h&aft the Rxe4 parahnses stmps underthio aon-

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plearre adviseus tb dateuh.lch this eontmot oxplr6s.~ A &mr?ul ooluidoration of thir oontruotloaresno doubt but that It wU8 EBQO Under the ruthoritp of, end in OOLPI pllcmas

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**Fieiiard** Civil Gtotutos,**1925,** whloh **aufhWit*8** **t2e kxa**  **’ 4**  **of Control**  **ti @x&r**  **acntmots** tor printing an4 the gwohaae 02 SIBAlar**8upplloa.** Article806, ‘r’bmon’o Ize?Lsed Cl011 btatUtO8, 1925, which is part of TitleEO, Chapter2~. aupra, in port,prorldes: Vho Bbard ahell oontraot for 8 t&as of **not etcoadlng**  two pm%.
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of the fitate 

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there- **%A 427**  **2a5 88**  **20. 59**  **Corpus JUAS**  **171:** hill v. &erloan Isook Coo~any (Sup. Ct. tit: **(Ct. Cir:**  **App. cf**  T&c., **%iObO18*;.** **1926) 171**  ttato **lees)** 11 mr. Clv. &p. se?, SE SE 452, writ of error refused; State T. fcrletela(Ct. MY. App. of Ter., 1924) 78 SX (a4) l.W,writ of error dl8nlssed. Since there $8 no tendnation date rtlpulntad in the ooa:raot

bo- .Coro us, we nust **z-e&d**the above quotedprotielon of Article bbc), supra, into the codzuat and hold that It ox&ad tat0 yo+?rll **im the**  **data of**  **cxt?a~tiah.**

Paragraph I ot thle contract bound the Steak Corn-- pony to furnieh ttmaty-rim rilllon (~,OOO,OOO) liqucr tar:.

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your lottarof hpril 25, 1940.

ATTORNEY GEN%UL OB TEXAS