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**OFFICE OF**  **THE ATTORNEY**  **GENERAL OF**  **TEXAS AUSTIN**  **GROVER SELLERS**  **&rro ”** **Nl. ”**  **GCNCRAL**

Bonorable IO H. Barton County Attorney Runk cotmt~ Bendereon, Texas Dear bfr.



### Barton: **Qplnlon** Ko. O-7433 **Rer** The Kepotim Sta

ector48aesmor of

is A. T. Boren's brother
oren is T. A+ Boren'e son David Boren'm rife seeka to become Deputy Tax Assessor-Collector **in** the office of Oeo. E. Wood. Thus DWid Boren'a rite 1s by nwrirge the **rife of**  **Ike. Oeo.**  **E.** Wood's **nephew.** David Boren being the nephew of Mrm- Wood'm former husband.'**i.**

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### 43fi of the Penal Code, **defining** wlfepotimmw,

,. . !$ : 5. :10OS folloTsl i, 'la offloer of this State or any officer of $,, 88J aistriot# oounty, oity, preolnet, sahool 

## ah- ,, i trlot, or other nmniolpal sabdivlsion of Ulia

,,. ,i Skk, or say 0??10or or somber er My stotor

dlstriot, oormty, oity, sobsol dlatrfot or other : i ~10ip0i boora, or me 0f UT 00urt, ar0a~1

m or under authori* of oar gutera 

### or apeoiol ;:. 

### low of this Note, or on17 ubor of the Ls&olo7~ 

### tan, droll l ppolat, or tote for, or cmilrn the appointmat to amy e??lee, position, clerkship, -10-t or duty, et any person related wltbIa the oeooad dogwo br affinity or within UIO **Shirt! dogroo**  **by omm~galaity**  **to** the parson se 8ppointlng or 00 toting, or to amy other **member** of amy ash board, tbo I,ogiilotPW, **or aanrt**  **O?** 

### which aeh p ow08 sel ppolntlng **or toting**  ay be a rubore whsa tho m810~, foes, or oonpsamtlm o? aoh 

### l

ppointoe is to bo paid for, direotly or lndlreotlyr out of or from publie 

### f'mds **or** 

### fees **a? offloe**  **o? my**  **kind or**  **ahar8otor whotaeetor.** **’**
Tenr question should be onsrered'ln the 

### l fflrmatite. Beorgo B. Toad and David 

### Borm are not related**by aanmn~riait~**  at all. I? there 1s amy poss.%ble relation, it mast be by a??in

### 1ty. The molyais of your sitaotlm shomm that Dorld 

### Beren Is not in anywise relotod 

### to George P. Veoa, the Tax AssossorColleotor **by** 

### offinlty,rlthln two degrees, **but** 0x1**the OOntrrrlr**  his rolotlon **by** offlnit~, if It eximto at all, Is for 

### beyond two degrees, and larolrea 8 tooking of 

### wparote o??lnltJ relatiOna, thus breaking the affinlt~ kinship **whloh** Is not permiufble in tho 6oeqmtatiom.

There Is no statute **defining** the relationship #ii&

;p,; w l The OOxmon 108 Is the rule of deoision **by** adoptioWin

The aommon-law rule is thus **st8ted** in 2 Corpus Jurls *oetl&ml, at p* 991:

'M. At oomwn lam, **the tera**  **hoa** been variously dofined lm the OOnneotlOn existing **in** Obnsequeaoo of aorrlago between ooeh of the qorrled persons and the 

### Lindrsd **Of** the other; tbe O~XP neotion formed by 

### merriogewhich plooes the hmsI

## 107

i **i ’**  **buad** 

### in the somedegree **to tbo**  

### blood rolotlonsa?

the We OS that In vhlah she herself stands to

### words them sad gltes the wife **the** 

### mom canneotlon with 

### theblood **reletiOn Of**  **the** husband; the rela

### tion oontrrotsd

by mwrloge bot%eeno **husband oad**  **his WISO~S**  **kindred and**  **botveea 8**  **wife** and **her hue**  

### band'skindred,In oontrodistinet~mr from **amm** 

### city, or 

### relationby blood; **the relotionobip**  

### whlebarises b7 morrioge 

### betwoeaone of **the por**  **tie*** and tho blood 

### relationsof tho othert the 

### tie **which orloee**  **fram** the **urrioge botweem** the husband **sad** the blood relations of 

### the fife,and between tho rife and thoblood reletiOnsa? the hu~bond-s EM tbot, 

### Mrs. DavidBeron is no blood relotlonof Mrs. OeorgsB. Too& and is tberefare no **relotlre** 

### by l

fflnit~ of **0eorgo** 

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**Toad.**
Tory truly yours

AtMltRET QEREML OF TEX



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