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p ..\_ \ ‘- &I r, OFFXCEOFTHEAITORNEY GENERAL OF TEXAS
t **AUSTIN**

Bonorable P. 33.Edwarda, Chairman, State Pink BoXlTorm CoaanLssion P. 0. BOSI.581 San hntonio, Taras
Dear kr. Edmwds: **OpiniOB** @O. O

### zwdmaphe bc 

### areling expenses his regular saSaryt

**s Department**  **oon** 

### aarning the abo following letterqt, has arisen, 

### can com5ission or the State Departeivo an annual lug espmsee. I er of the Texas 1 do

### not receive ry 

### aa Pm%ber of the ere 

### not alsemberof the. uld be rtyduty as Chief InFink Bollror% Division oT tbe nt 0PAgriculture to attend hearings of the Pink Uollaorra Comlssion to give expert testimny ana roald, of ccurm, receive 

### a regular salary and expenses. The questions aret
'1. **Can I**  **smve as**  

### a **cret;;bor**

### Gf'**ehe**

### Stats Pink Boll~rorr CoMILission while being elrploy& by ths State Department ot' AgriouIturs, andBonarable 8, 8. EdranisI GhaintPn, page 2

draw nq regular salary sn3 nece8saFy traveling expenses?

**“ 2.**  Can I serve as 

### at;esjber of the 

### convcfasion if I drew only myregntar sal

### ary but 

### no travclinf: all~wrncc erOmthe state of TexasP
Your questions should **bu** anewred **ir:** the negatiTe.
Seation 33 of Article XVI of the Constitution, insof’u as pertinent, IS 88 f0llOTSr

@The aaoounting officers of this State shalt neither draw 

### nor pay a warrant upon 

### the .treasury in faror 0P any pemon, tar salary or uo~penertion as agent, 0Pftaer or S~pdH&G, vba

# hold6

rlt the SapLBtfSi:e SW other offLce or 

## pos%tianof honor, trust or profit, udder this Stat8~ or the United States,
l l +,* You, as an eniployee of the State Dapartaent of A@iCUl turt, rec%i~ve en annual salary end neuessary traveling expenses which are, of course, paid out OPthe State treasury upon 

## the**warrant of**  **the** amounting ofPicers OSthe State. You areI thercfor~e, an

## l eppeintee*, rithin the neaning of Section 33,

2lec~berahI.pin the State F-inkBollwarm Ccmassion is, we think, an office under this State, but ah~ether so OP not 

### it is 

### at least a

## l position-* of honor and trust, within the u.oaniug of Yecticn 3.3,

### and the drawing or payment of a warrant uyc;n the treasury in pour favor on account af either offioe, appointmnt cr position is plainly Portidder: 

### during the tir;e tie

### ~10occupies such dual pGSitiOn6.

This has been the uairorra hoMing ul”this DryaptEerrt 

### for &any years, beginniug perbaps aith the celebrated holUng of First Assistant C. LL.Cureton, the late Chief Justi UP thz r;u>rci;.c Court, in the aatter of Lieut.enant Governor Will 5. kagts’ servin:: as Prcfee%:crOCJourr:allsm 

### in the 

### StatCUnip+PSity, While at 

### tb5sawe $in:c I~aldlng his dPi.ce of iAcut~mar!t tiev3rmr uf Texas, in the ciurse of 

### which ocinicn Judge Curetoo said:

### sonorable ii. B. Edwards, Chairman, pitge 3

#It is very clear, thereeorz, that b;r. byea so long as he is Lieutenant Gofernor could not under the Constltutlr’m drw pay Proru the State, ns (3) ng:?nt, (2) officer, (3) appointee of thr Stat*.

‘As we hape before endeavorel to shoa that a professor in the University of Texas is 

### an appointee, or ia a liaited sense an agent, A@. )tayos could,not draw a salary Pron the State as Professor of Journalist in &haUniversity.
*rite aonveroe of the above proposltion Is also true, zuxl, therefore, Yr. &ayes, uo long as he was the agent or ap

### pointee of the stat4 aa a Professor of Journ;llise in the Unltersitg, couki not draw his pay as Lieutenant Cio~ernor of the State, that baing an offic43 rithin the meanin 0P the Constitution.

lTherefore should &‘A-.Lnyes accept the position of PraPessor aP Journalism in the University ami at the s91cet&w hold ami esercisc tha dut.ties OP the ofPice of Lieutenant Govsrnar, he could 3ot dron pay lor P_tther such 0Pt’ice or such p05ition.a (Gpinions Attorney General 1912-1914, p. 853).