**OFFICE OF**  **THE A?-TQRNEY**  **GENERAL OF**  **TEXAS AUSTIN**  **GROVER**

SELLERS **ATronHn**

**GLNER*L**

. - IIonorable

Connally McKay County Attornay 

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Tf2,ms ., Opinion~No. O-7206



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### or .w00a county, : county Board 

### or St3hool Trus 

### 0viaing immeaithe job forex-serqice e U. S. who desire such to aontifiue

their high

he prerequis.ites

to'organizesuoh a . at some Fndiv-idual, oorpor8tioq,or other e funds for the operationof the school 'unti+,money

was received from the Pederal Government. The Board of direotors of the sahool, -&o were appointed **by** the county Board of School Trustees,requested theHonorableCons&Y MgKaY - Page 2'

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Commissioners

Court to finance the sob001 temporarily until said money was received. ,Acting on such request * the oommissioners~oourt of this 'county

passed the lollowing oraer: '. e1 On motion by B. A. Holbrook, se&nded by

C. c'. Cianton that Wood County escrow the sum of $2,000.00 for the purpose of defraying expenses neoassaryfor the organizationof Vocational

._ Sohool under the 0. I. Bill of Rights as set up

by the County School Board. It is specifically understood that any amount of the above $2,000.00 that is not used is to be paid into the County ..Trsasury. . : 'Please advike .me, Whether or not'the oommissione&s. oourt ha?&e authority to appropriate monies for the .: ' : advanoementor aid-to a Vocational School for .the benefit of ex-servicemen."

. . . . . Oouxity commissio&s~~.oourtshave no power or authority, except &oh as is oonferredupon them by the Constitutionor

_ statutesof the State; ~B1and.v.Orr, 39,s. W:558 (Tel. Sup; ot., 1897); Galveston, H. & S. A. Ry. 

### CO. V. Uvalad County, '. 167 6. n; (26) 305 (sagAnto.gio ct. or 01~. App., 1942);~ Howard v. Henderson~

County,.ll6S. W. .(2a) 479 (Dallas~Civ.

App., 1938 1936 ; Landmanv. State, 97 S. W. (2a) 264 (El Paso Clv. App;, * Nunn-Warren

Pub. 00. v. Hutohinson County,‘45 S. N. (?a) 651, +arillo Glv.. App., 1932) writ 

### or er.ror refused. The expenditureof publiu 

### runas is jealouslYguarded by the Constitution, and oommissioners' courts oannotmake : any gratuitous

grant of funds or use publio oredit or **inCUr** anp indebtedness

or liability except for public governmental

.purposesauthorizedby law. De%ary v. JeffersonCounty, 179 S. PI. (26) 584 (Beaumont ~Civ. App., 1943). The',powers,and'auties of oommissioners'

courts are speoifiedin Artiole V, Section 18, Constitution of Texas, and Title 44,. Revised Civil Statutes of Texas. We find nothing thereinwhich, either expressly or by necessary implioatiou,

would authorizea oommissioners'oourt to grant or+.. : 

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lend pub110 funds for the purpose stated in your letter; , ‘ -’ Therefore,

we must answer your first question in the negative,'

._ Your second questionwhich reads'& follows:

u2. Whether the County Clerk and the Distritit Clerk may furnish certified oopies, free of charge, of discharges,

marriage licenses,birth certifioates, death certificatesand divorce prooeodlngs that might be called for.in oonneotionwith the 'abovementioned sohool.gl : is CUISW8$8a by our Opinion No. 0-7208, ti copi of ’

. which is 

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Yours very'truly