OFFICE OFTHEATTORNFY GENERAL OFTEXAS **AUSTIN**

June 5, 1939 / WT. !3avfd

E. Kuloahy county ,'.ttorney El %a0 County Ll Paso, Teuls

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Civil Q PubUo Buildingend Imowned Qythe oounty? ‘!'(b] when saidbooke arei to be housed in the presentlibraryWildin& amed by the city 0r El Papaso, or glad otbsr pubU0 buildingnot ownedby Mm Ctwnty~"**ixticle** 3677, !!evised Civil S-stutsm, reads as 'fal'mu: The ccxxilsclonero court or any cnunty may estol:liah,

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and operate within t!if+fF **res;r ‘** **eotlVo** COLUltfeS, COUntg **irec** lihrc\ritsin th+ mn:Ier and with thn functlcns rrttmrlbcd in tiis title. The sold court shall also have the power and authority to establish in ao-oporatlon wltb aaother oounty or oountlesa Joint free oouaty libraryfor the benefitof tI& oo-operatlve?ountlerr,w Artlole 1679, Retised Clril Statutes, reader *After a aout& free library ha6 been e,stabllahed,

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oourt shall annually eet aaide from the -al tax fund

.- or the oounty,a mm suffloiat.for the maIntemnoe of said library,but not to axoeed five oents on the hundred dollarsvaluation or all property 2.n auoh oounty Outalde of all lnoorporated

oitieo and km818 already S~PPOX%- in6 a free $Lblia library,**ard** upon allproparty within all inaorporated oitias **and** towna already supportinga free puUa library, and upon all propertywithin aLl fncorpo~ted oitiss end towns already supportinga free pub110 **library** whioh have eleotsd ii& become a part of such free library ayvttema provided in thS.8

title forth0 purposeOr maintaining oounty free 1lbrarLaaand for purohasing ~ropertythorafor~* The first legislativeact authimlz librariestc be established was passed by the lqture,Aotn af 1915,oh, 117, ard found on p the General l&Ys of Texae. This wae entitledan;': e- "to establish,maf.ntaln, operate,equip and Uise$.abX@& oountp free libraries and county oimulating llbrariea. ror the us6 of the oitlzens or this state;....", auu wbioh aot underwent subsequent revisions w&t@ the lastrevision, iiots of 1919,~

36th :e&slature, found incorporated under Title 35, Article3 16774690, Revised civil Statutes, 1925. It is unnecessary to set forth horein all of the above articles under Title 35, per talning to the subject.

Our attention is directed to that provision of Artiole 1678, *ioh provideothat the library shall

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~utoeertaSnterritorl.alllmitsdeflrm¶there~ 0th.rprodeicalsunderpit4 s5 are glfts and beqneds for the bow Artiole 1696 provides that the be diMstabllshed at aqtime ujmn a petition ot a 4ority of the toter6 of

oounty free library, etwlng mm&

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bds providedftk the maintenanoe of suah oounty free libraryunderArtlole 1679, aupra, ame to be paid out of the general fund. Youwill note that Artiole 1689 providssthat all funds rret aside for.~Intdnlng auoh oountffree library shall aon&WftJte aeeparato fundto beltnownaathe oounty free librsm fund and shall not be wed for any other purposes except those Or the aouatS free library. iiaving,authorised thle method, it appearsthat the rule of sxpreselounlW eat exolwio alteriuawould apply and the county would be unauthorized

to divert oonsttiutlondl fundB raisedby taxution,an atihoribd ~@a<.l$mUmited, Article 8, SeOtLon 9 of the Conetltutlon of Tezoo, and use suoh funUs to @IX'- ohase books for and maintain suoh county

### rree libraryaaauthvviztxl in odd statntes. *Where legislation points out speciricallg how an aot is to be done, althou& without it, the court or officials, under their general powers, roulilhave been able to perTorn the act, pet, es the Le+yislat~~ro i&poeeU a epmial llmltation, it must be striatlypurmle&” Lewis* Sutherland Statutory con0truotian - s00ondEdition,vol. II, p. a&9. 'wher0 a power ia gl3mt.a **nnd** the m0th0a of.it8 exeroi8a I.6 ~reaarihsd, the prttacrlbed methodsraludalr e&l othen llrdmtnstbofolama.* = Lewls'f3uthda&3tatutoryGoamtmmtion,Vol. a, para* s9t, 689, 688, 651. It is thorafora the opinion of thie dapartmnt ;h$Gha ocmidwioners' 0tma-t is not authorbad to.ply 9 books pumha8oUundmrthe 

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