**OFFICE OF**  **THE All-ORNEY**  **GENERAL OF**  **TEXAS AUSTIN** 

Honorable Gee. H. Sheppard cmptroller of Pub110 Accounts Auua tin, Texas

Dear Sir:

Your letter of **F**

and also for telegraph, telenger aemloe. We, therefore, owing questions and reepectlve-

'1. Is the Prison officlale authorized to incur claims for telegraph, telephone and remsager service and per for suoh clelms out of the $10,000 appropriation made for contingent eXpen0et

### -orable Gee.H. Sheppard, Page 2

**“ 2.**  Is the Prison offloials 

### author%.ted td Inour olains for motor vehicle supplles and pay for same out of the Industrisl Revolving Fund created by the Forty-fourth Legislature, **First** Called Session, Page 1600, Chapter 403, of 1935, as the same Is appropristed In a speoial 

### riderfolloving the ltemlsatIo.ns in the Current Appropriation Bill?

Vou will note from the trdwtriel Revolving Fund oreated by the above mentioned **Aot** of 1935, that it required that the State Treasurer **of Tums**  shall deposit sufflolent **amount** of noneys reoslved by him from the Qeaorali(msger of the Texas Prison 8 stem out **0r** money emned byaIldbe1ongsngt0 tiT e State Prlron System In bank et Runtsvllle, Texas, for the purpose of 

### l stablIshIug the Industrial Revolving Fund, 

### vhioh fundlm to 

### be wed by raidPrison System in th0 p~emlng 0f SUP~~IOS **r0r** th0 **trri0~** 

### lndwtrles or the Texas Prison System."

**As** stated In hour letter, the Oenenrl Approprirtion Bill of the Regular Session of the Forty-eighth Leglalature (LB. 332) **ukem** iteaised appropriations of kZC,COC per **year for**  **motor** supplies and 42,500 

### peryear 

### ror telegraph, telephone **and** messenger servloe for the Texas Prison System. This sot also makes an ltemlsed appropriation of $10,000 

### per year 

### for 'Contingent Expenses.* Section 15(b) of the Ceneral Pkovlslons of this act provides:

"The opproprlations herein provided are to be oonstruedas themaxlmum sums to be appropriated to end **for** the severalpurposes named herein, and the amounts are Intended to oover, and shall cover the entire oost of the respeotlve items imd the same shall not be supplemented from any 

### other~ouroes~ end, exoeptas otherwise provided, no other expenditures shall be made, nor shall any other obligations be inourred by **any depar$ment**  **of** thle **State, pro**  vided, hovever, that nothing herein shall prevent any department head from paytng less than **the maxlsnns**  **amount set**  **forth** hereIn for any salaried posltlon.R

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Honorable Gee. Ii.Sheppard, Page **3**

In ouz Opinion No. O-1332 ve said vlth respect to &e:effeot of a provision ldentlosl with thls upon an appro- $riatlon for contingent expenses$

"Having due regard to the context ln which
ve find the vord (contingent),

### and the speolflc aUthOris8tiOn for the us8 of such funds for such purposes, ve are impelled to the oonoluslon that the Lsglsl8ture has said substantially this:

'We h.sve

ettempted, so far as po&ble, to antlolpate every item of expenses, vhlch msy neoeaaarlly be Incurred in the operation of your department, but ve resllse th8t our judgment 88 to suoh aLatter may be lnexaot, from the very nature of things, and ve therefore sppropriste to, your departmeuat

a sum of money generally avallabZe for operating expenses of 

### your departpent, except as othervise herein speclfloally limited, to tske care of those employments apd othei'exuenses not herein speolfloelly 

### providedf **but** hlh 

### ne@esssrllybe required t o ena% your"de&rg&t properly to tiotlon.l" (Emphasisand parenthetiOs1 VOrd added)
Since expenditures for telegreph, telephone and,messenger service have been 8pe~lflO8llyprovided for in th&gpproprlatlon bill, ve feel that the appropristion for such servloe say not be supplemented by expenditures from the sppropriat,lon for contingent expenses. Consequentlyyour first question 1s 

### snsveredin the negative.

In our Opinion No. O-2990 ve considered the Indud-' trial Revolving Fund of the Texas Prison System and its blennial "appropriation" in the GenelglAppropriation Bills. In this connection ve said:

"Au adding up of the amounts of the various specific Items of appropriation for the prPson system shows th8t the amounts of the revolviog funds are not included ln the tot818 , . . This fact, together with the requirement that the lndustrlal revolving fund be kept at its maximum at all times, espeoially when considered ln the

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### are

Your8very truly

I **ATTORUBY GBRBRAL** **OF TXAS** 

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