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

### AUSTIN

Euy 20, 1939

Hoa. 0. B. Carron **cotmty Attorn4y**  **xator** 

## county **Ode66a,**

Texa6

on tha above thllt orrlae. part* r0z.mf6t

a applicant shall dang 

### reewith the aounty l ri?Ltg or the application. the County Judge 

### attitledtoa u fee for holding the hearing upon

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### theheax& thereon to a fee of Fly6 Dollara ($6).wbioh ree 6hall, b7 the 

### Ooiinty Olerk be depoalted in the County 

### Tma6ury and the applic8nt shall be ll6ble r0r no other reee koept 6ald aprlloatlon

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to perform sxh services 1s lm;;o?edas ircident to the 

## OrriCe, :ind the 

## CrriCdr by !.ls scce?tmce thereof is deessd to have ecgsged to psrfom then without cozpensotlon. Tex. Jur., Vol. 34, p. 507, 511, 515 ant yj5; Crosby Ccunt:.' ,C:ot.t+le

Co~..psny

v. :Ici;ermett,

201 24 293; z:cCallev. city or RockL'ole, 246 5:~C54; Terre11 v. King, 14 'Y 2nd 76%.

The Leglslzture has speclricel:y ?rovlded test Flvr Dollars sho,:ldbe the only fas the a;plic-nt should have to pay in oonneotlon with hls ap;lioetlon, exoept ths ocnual lles~se fee rs@red by the Liquor Control Act, and that tba sum of Five Dollars should **be** by the county clerk deymslted 1~ the county treasury, and nblther the oountf judge nor the aounty olerk would be authorized to charge an additional fee ic oonnectton with said app:lcotlon.

* On Woreuber 8, 1937 anl April 22, 1938, this deprrtrant in passing **upon** the 98310,;usstionas submitted in your i~;ulry held tbrt neither the oounty jud,q nor the oounty olerk WRS authorized to charge sn aldltlonal See in connectloc with the applicatloa and thet the.on:y fee t?.ctcould **be** sssessed was the Fire Dollar See provided for by S8CtiOE 6, Article 2 

## or the Tees illuor Control Act and that this See must be deposited by the county clerk alth the county treesurer.

YOU me respeotfully advised that It 1s the opinion of this Eeprrtment that the county Judge 1s not entitled to a fee for holding the herirlngon h??lloc.tiona for beer ;;nd .slne retslltrs’ ~em1t.s and thct the county olcrk la not. eotitled to a fee ror rlllnr such appllcatlon and his clerical work in connection uith such a;plicetion.

Trustin thrt the for8gOing a5SueTS YOUr in?UirY, **we** remln i-our.9 **very** truly