OFFICE OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL OF TEXAS AUSTIN
**GlwLD c.**  **MANN** ***-. .val-L** 

Honoreble 8. L;.IAW Presldant,Board of Dirootors
Houston, TXrar Dear Sir:

We **are** in norlpt 0 in whioh you nquert our opin orizad to be pal6 to the Vice ature, ltemlzeathe sall '&.mlnlstration (zl'w$(; month8 exoept as SW Prcssldent

. . . . . . . , . $S,OOO.OO 363 Vice-Presldw2t and efooutive assistant

. . . . , . $6,600.00 364 Secretaryto the President ~~,OOO.OO Regfistrar*s

orri00 365 Registrar
. . . . . . . . . $4,000.00 August 31, 1941



## $3,600.00 )E,%00.00
#s,ooo.oo ~5,500.00 :e ,ooo.oo $4,000,00~Hon. F. LI. Law, Page 2.

The foregoingitemized 8alarle8are payable out of the General RevenueFund of the State.

You state in your letter that ln addition to the above appropriations

out of the GeneralReverue ?und the Prerldcnt*s8alary Is eupplemented

out of locel fund8 by the Board or Directors 80 that his total arsual 8alary 18 &2,000.00. The Boar&or Dlreotorsal80 8upplemcntethe aalarlesof other.snployecs and you desire to be advised whether the !llce-President18 salarymay be supplemented so a8 to **equal** uot more than SO$ of $12,000.00,or whether it 18 **Umltcd** to SO$ of f8,OOO.OO

which i8 the General Revenue ?und appropriation ror the President.

The followingprovlaionsappear In the Educational Appro- - prlatlonBill, 8. B. No. 255, Acts 46th tiglslature:

-he expenditure

of the appropriations hereinmade- **-d** authorized

whether from the State GeneralRevenue Fund, local Institutional **funds** or any other receiptsand funds whatsoever,except bequests and gilts, shall be subjectto the rollowlngprovlelon8:
. . . *Subsection (2) Salary Prorlslona. No salary approprlatedhcrelh shall be supplemented out of student fee funds, **dotitory** funds, or local funds, except out .otthe Pure Feed Fuud at the Agriculturaland MechanicalCollege or out of funds received from the Unlted States Government or its agencies,unless eo'ordcredby the governingboard ot,the institution to which euch salary **or** 8alarlcsapply, **at a**  regular meeting with at least **a** majority of the remhero of such board present,and auoh order shall be entered In the minutes of the prkeedlngs of said **board** and ehall set forth tully the reason8 therefor. No tull time lnstruotlonel ealary a8 itemizedherein shall be adjusted to exceed an amount - above the msxl~ full professor*8salary a8 herein Itemized to **be** appropriatedfrom the General Revenue **Fund** of the States for the particularinstitutionto which 8ald **salary** or salarles~apply,

unless the maximum salary is being r$oelred, in which ease euoh adjustmentmay be.madenot to exceed ten per oent above such msxlmum salary 80 **received.** It 18 rurtherprovided that oompeneationfor correspondence and/or extensionteachingas providedherein and compeneation from bequests end gifts, unless 80 llmltedby the donor, shall be excluded**from** the salary limltatlohsof this paragraph. The rate of the salarypeid an employeeof any lnetitution named herein for service8during a summer session *hall not exceed the salary rate paid t&e employee for the ssme or elmilar 8ervlcesduring the long 8e88ion of that institution.
. .Hon. P. E. law, Page 3
"'S‘jLk3*0t10n

(16). The Board of Regents or the University or Texas and the Board of Directors or A. 6 M. College of TCXCS ere hereby expresslyauthorized to create a position of rice-presidentin each of eeld **inStitUtion8,** lr in the opinion of said Board8 lt 1s advisable to create said position,and fix the salary ior Sam out Or lOOa institutional funds et not exceedlng eighty (80$)per cent of the salary authorizedh&rein for the presidentof said respective lnstltutlons.' Authority for the creation of the office of Vice-President **is** fdund in the General **Laws,** in Artlola 2613, R.C.S., 1925,which reads ln part as follows:

*The Board OS DlrOCtOrS is chargedwith the duties and empowered to **do** and perfom the acts hereinafterset rorth a8 follow8: "1. The board shall,when necessary,appoint the president and proressorsof the oollege and such other orfloersas, iror time to tlme, they msy think proper to keep the college in **SUOOCI88fUi** operstion,dnd may from time to time abolish any office that 1s in their 4udgment**unnc6es8ary.w** Clearly it 18 contemplatedthrt General‘Fundapproprla**tione** for sa&rlee msy be supplementedWorn looal funds upon the properly exercisedauthority of the governingboard. The question re8ol~c8 itself into a determinationof what the phrase "salary authorizedherein," a8 used in Subsection (16) means. It will be noted that the bill does not llmlt the amount9i,W$ of the salary ltearized

therein for the Pr88ldent; the llmitatlon18 aO$ or the amount authorized. ?&at Ml.ary does thle appropriation bill authorize. for the President of A. & I,!. College? First, it authorize8&,OOO.OO of hi8 salary as the state'8 part, to be paid out of the General Revenue fund. But that Is only a part of the salary authorizedto.be paid the President. The bill further authorize8the governingboard to supplementhis salary out of local funds in an amount to bc'detenclned by the **board.** It could not be euccessrully contended that the governingboard 18 not authorized to fix an additionalamount out or local lnstitutlonalfunds. The Preeldenttetotal salary when so tired 18 clearly authorlzcid by H. B. Ho. 225 to the extent o? the full a.mciunt paid. Ir the bill authorleesthe governingboard to pay the Prealdedt )12,000.00, then It would follow that it 18 authorized to pay the Vice-President not to exoeed gO$ of that amount.We oall attention

_ (la)which would apparently to the partloular wordding

of 6ubseotion +lt+he paymcntot such a salary to only one pOSitiOn as vice-prerldent. Hon. F:Y. &w, Page 4

Xt 18 our opinion that the Yioe-President of **A.** &Y. College may be paid a salary not to exceed @Cfbof the total salary paid the Pnsident tromboth /he GeneralRevenue **Fund** and the State and local fund8 of the 88hoo1, end such SabCy is not Umlted to 80% of the amunt appropriated as the State.8part rroa General Revenue. .TOUrS very truly ATTORREY OEXFiRAL

OF TRXAS
BY /~/.Cecil.C.~~~=&

Approved Oplplon Comittee By:.B.W.B.Ohelrman