OFFICE OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL OF TEXAS 

AUSTIN 

Maroh 16, 1939 

Hon. A. R. Prestwood 

county huditor smith county 

Tyler, Teixna 

Doar St: 

of Xaroh 6, 1989, 

thlrr gepartment on 

meh ox&venre if bho Oar-i 

uld roiun to alla the 8aaoew 

and entered in the mlnutea of 6aid oaurt dotermIne wðer preeoinot offfolbrr of euoh oounty...~Shall W oampanoated on E salary basim am ptovlded.r.&r ehall.r+ 

solve fftse of Offfoe....* 
Hon.. A. F. Preatwood, Maroh 16, 1939, Page 2 

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You stats in your letter that the Commlssioners' Court of your oounty passed and entered an order 

at its first regular megting in January, 1939, to the 

efteot that preoinot offloers of your oounty shall thereafter be oompsnsetsd on the salary basis. 

That portion of S&ion 11 of Senate Bill hereinabove referred to, whioh is now designated as Saotion 

~~&rtlols 3t399, Revised air11 Statutes rsada .as fol- 

%aoh offloer uamad in this dot, where 

he reosltes a salary as oompsnsetlon for hi8 

aervloe8, shall be smpomrsQ and permitted to 

purohase and hare oharged to his oouuty all ransonable sxpanses noos8sary In the propar and 

~.lagal oonduot of hlc4 offlee, premiuma on ofriolals' bonds, premlup on flro, burglary, thoit, 

robbery iusurauos protaoting~publlo fuuds and. 

lnoludlng the ooet of suretf bonds for hi8 

Dsputies, suoh expenses to be passed on, pra-' 

determined and allowsd In kind and nmountn, 

as nearly aa possible, by the Oomissloners~ 

Court onee aaoh mouth for the snsting month, 

upon the applloatlon by eaoh oifloer, stating 

the kind, probably amount'of expsndlture and 

the uaosseiDj for~the axpansee of his offioe 

for suoh ensuing month, rhloh applloatlon shall, 

betore presentation to maid court, first be 

sndoraed by the Oounty Auditor, if any, other- 

-wise the -County Treamrer, only as'to whether 

funds ars available for payment of suoh OXpenaes......* 

I oell your attentfou to the first few word8 

of the above quoted artlole whloh aret 

TZaoh offloer named in thla Aot....* 

Since by the authority vested in the Commiasioneme* 

Court by the abovemsntloned Ssotion 2 of Artlo 3912s 

the court has aeon fit to plaos the preoinot offlosrs 

on a salary baais and for mason that Seotlon (b) Brtlole 3899 and Section 2 of Artiole 3912e are a part of 

the same Aot, there oan be no question but that preoinct offlqers are inoluded in suoh Seotion (b) Arti- / 

ole 3899. 
Hon. A. P. Prastwood, Karoh 16, 1939, Page 3 

Eavlng d&armlnad that the praoinot offloars 

of your oounty in whloh group the constable of preclnot 

No. 1 is included, are governed by the provisions of 

Saation (b) Artlola X399, it Is noted that such officers 

are speoifloally v....aupowaraa -6 permitted to purohase and have ohargad to his oounty 

expenses necessary in the proper end 

his otfioe....v 

all reasonable 

legal oonduot of 

Paragraph g of gaotlon (b) 

proride in part8 

of Artlola 9899 

* . . ..Suoh report, onroloem and requisitions 

shall be subjeot to the audit of the oounty 

auditor if any otharwlse by the Ooamlsslonars~ 

Court, and If it appears that any ltam was not 

lnourrad by suoh ofiioem or.that suoh ltam was' 

not naoatmiry or legal l xpansa or suoh Ottloe 

or p~0ha806 upon proper requisition, suoh 

Item shall be by suoh oouuty auditor or oourt 

rejaotad In whioh oasa the,paymant of suoh Item 

..~rnay ba aajuaioataa in any oourt of ocnapatant 

jurlsdlotlon. All suoh approved olaima add 

aooounts shall be paid from the Offioar~s Salery Fund unless otherwise provided herein." 

It is, therefore, the opinion of this Dapartgent and you are so advl8ed that tha answer to eaoh of 

the questions submitted Is in tha affirmative, aseumi 

Of ooursa, In the oasa of the w-that tha 

statutory requisites oontalned In the whole of SEeotlon 

(b) Artiole 3899 have bean fully oomplied with. 1 

Trusting that this 8ati8iaotorlly answers your 

inquiry, wa remain 

Vary truly yours 

ATTORNEY OENE.RAZ,.OF TEXAS -?Y-l.h~ *s 

Assistant 

LAWA~ 

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