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OFFICE OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL OF TEXAS



### Honorablek!.0. Flowerr Seoret8ry 

### of Stata Austin,Taxer
Dear Sll-1 Attentionr



### 8194- atian

### or w cl. 3088, iv11stml 06, 1986, to tabulationo? l



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### by tb Soaratary



### June ll,lWO, l

### IJ to 

### thepro 

### or your let&or of 

### r thlreepmrt?aent eetlonr*turn8in 18 8088,Revised

State, in tha prarem* of 

### ruyGeneral,or eitheror **nday in**  **l0temb.x next**  **dtu** 

### opanall the eleotionreturn* and .oormatlyaddup au the e revere1o~untleefogeaoh of ore, andEmmythe re8tM 

### thoseof, ameeof themealeoted, 

### to bo publfehed in l 

### me nerrpaparprintedat Aurrtin, 

### and &all imuo oertiflaates of eleotlonto the personsbo 

### eleoted.*
In this ecrrmeation you point 

### out tb6tr 

## 911~ tam8 notice8 

### tbt thors

## areonly threeMotday* in ~1Jorember afkr 6be genera1 

### elaotlo~on 

### November8. The ioqth MoM@Y in

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.Hon~or&bleII. C. Flowers, Page 2

Kovambar la November ESand the fourth &?on&8y 8fter the general ele0tlon is December 2. Fe feel that in 811 probebilitp the leglsletwa intended thfs dsta to be the fourth Sonday iA Norember, howaver, the ewkerdpoeition or the word8 arastes oo~s1derrabl.a aoniusioA.~ 

### Artioles2930,3079and 3086,Vernon'8Annotated Clrll. Statutes, read aa follows:

"Art. 2930. A general eleatlon shall be held on the 

### tire Tuusedayerter the rfrat 

### xond.2~fn Nov(IIpber, 

### A.D. 1926, end avery two 

### yams thereafter, at such p16aee 88 JIMXY be proeorl~asd by Law, arbr notioe 80 prescribed **bg Law.**  Speoltl elections ebsll be held et suah **times** ud plaoea ea my **be** rlrtd b!f Law

### providingthtreror. In all eltttlons, gamrel, eptolel, or primary, the polla ehall be open from aeven o'aloak k&Y. to seven o'oloak P.M. in all aountlee fvrrlng a population of 150,000 or more eaaordlng tc tha last Federal 

### otneuaar.d in 811 other oountlee the polle 8hal.l be opened at 8 A.M. and almll rtaaln open until 7 P.M. only." The 

### tleotlbn ahall bt held for one 

### day

**"Art.** 3079. Onthe TUaed8y after the 

### rlret Monday in Norembar, A.D. 1932, end on the Tuteday ~8x3 

### erter the 

### first ?&mAeyin kYoreaber, every lour ytart theretdttr, or et auoli other tlmes,:ae the Congreta or tha Unit04 Jtetae nay dirtat, there shall be tleated by tba voter8 of :the 3x&4; 81 manyalsatars for Prt8168nt and Vice-Freaih@t at t&a United States aa tha Sate of Terse mayet that tfme be entitled to elect, no one 

### or whomshell **bt** a person holding the offiae of Zemtcw or Btgresentativt in COngreea, 

### or enp orriot Or true) 

### or profit under the Unit4 States.'4 *Art. 3086. &I electfan for the eleotlon OS s Zenator rr08 Texea to the Congress or tha United States shell be held on the flrst Tuesday aitar~ tha rirst Monday in Morembar of every year lmmedlately pr,roedlng the fourth day 

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## the tePm 

### 0r tnp uAited mister, %nrtor 

### iron tbs 

### 3teteor Paam 

### to thr Corrgrese or tba United Statea 18 to explra+

. At suoh tle6tion no pt%wOAahall be @411fiO,Q ta 

### rote r0r eny oandidatt

### ror UnitsedStetto

### SenetoPBanorfibla Z. C. Ploware, Zags 3

u~lese he is a quo1Ii10d elector in any election the most numerout brenoh held to elect mtstbers of or the Legielature of thl8 Etato.*’ In construing 8 statute the contideret:on of prImery laiportenoe is the intention of the Leglsleture. KOP V8. Sobwider, 110 Tex. 369, 218 S.?:. 479, rehearing denied, 221 3.X. 880; Sarnte vs. Stats, 75 Tex. Grim. Rep. 10~8, 170 3.F. 548, L.R.A. 19150, 101. The Lengueca employed by tht Legislature must not :ie overlooked. It 

### 18presumed to have betA selected with dtllberetlon. Faith VII. Ttree Company (Corn. kpp.) 53 9.K. (2d) 774.

Applying theta principle 8, lt la clear that the Lagleleturt intended that the rieorttery of State perform the duties ttt forth in Hrt. 3003 in the month of November. The statute provides thet be shell non tha rourth Monday in Hov.embernext arts- meld eleotloa” proceed to tebulete the return*. It it also clear from Articles 2930, 3079 cad 3086 thet the general election will always fell on the first Tuesday ertar tke first Eonday In November. If Article 3089 be construed to meanthat four bCondeysmust alepee arter the elaotlon bsrora the Secretary 

### or %ete ehell tebulete the returnt then that 

### orricer aen never act In the month 

### 0r Noramber es Article 3083 dlraots. It follows that tha phreee non the rourth Zlonday In Eovember next miter said tleotlon* mmne the same me if the &gleleture had said *the fourth k&n&my

in Uovamber next euaoeeding **the** date .or said eleo

### tiOA' or “the fourth Eonday in November in the year of meld general tlaatlon*.

It 1s therefore the opinion 

### or thle depertmant end you are reepeotfully edvlrrta tbt Novtmbar 28. 1940, la t&e proper tbt tleotlon Artio1t 3003, date for the Seorttery of Met8 to ~ebuletk

returns In eocordenca with the provlslone oi Vernon’s Annotated Clvll Statutes. Yours very truly
**ATTO~Y** GEIERAL OF TXAS 

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