OFFICEOFTHE ATTORNEY GENERALOFTEXAS
**AUSTIN**

**Bonimiblr Qordon** **C. Cam**  **county AttQrnsJ**  **Lampasas**

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### a Stats ncmhatlon, or ii there k no ohlrmssi¬able Gordon C. Caqs, Pa&a8

o? such dtitrlot ereoutite osnmittas, thoa with the chalrman o? wash oouaty oo~poalng suoh dietriot, not latsr than the iirst Wnday In June pn~dlng ths gonual prinmrg. Suchrequests q llkewlse **be filed**  **not** 

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### row **ocmtainlng** every attsr r0qtllrea b7 law In the 

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as statd bp kdr. Justfoe Iloximna In mioaa **i3tatss** va. **Lombardo, 841** **U. 3.**  **73, 36**  **S. Ct.**  **306, 6Q** L, Ed., 8971

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### wire for **safe-keeping** ai& roe4y refewnoe. Tills& It must be ob84mod, Is not ce~@eta until th. doouerent Is deliyand ,andr~40ired~.~ It will .bs **observed that**  **two**element4 are eesoatiti to eQBstltuto "?111ag" of &B iJiS~OStt; vie. aemory to 

### and rsoslpt o? by th4 proper o??lo4z. This Is wall .rstabiIshed. In T*xas. Real V. Alexander, 6 Ter. 6@r CIt7 o? Dallas t. B@man (0. 0. A. 19398) 18 Tex. C&V.h&q. SF&i,48 s. w. 686; Brogaokav. State, 68Tex. 

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### afuo Poynor 1. Comtiesfor& o? ~tsrnal Aevau4 (0. C. 8. 6th elr,) 6L lr.4. (ad) 681. ~@m.4 th4 me*. d4posIt or all lr@SWmnt in tha unit46 3t4644 **~llails** Is not su??lcisnt to oea88itWo *?lfIn@ (;n. 9. v.

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Ronorable Qoraon c. Cam, Page 3

Lombardo, supra; Moores v. Stata, SON. W. 225) reoelpt by wall within the proper time and by t.he proper o?fIoer Is a
“flllug” ) and the vehiole or egenoy by whloh the instrument Is tranauittod 1s Of no oonsequenoe. Is all oases the **query** Is, has the Instrument been raoelved and plaoed In the oustory of the proper offloIal. Moorer, Y. State, 06Ii. W. 225; Swaeneg v. City of NOW

York, 225 N. Y. 271, 122 N. E. 843; O’Hesrn v. Rrloksou, County Auditor (S. Ct. Mlnh. 1022) 152 i&m. 3449, 188 W.W. 736.

**AS stated**  **in** Swesney **v.** City **of** New**Yor&, supra,** 

“The varb ‘to ills1 my be used In rarlbus senses. When, as in thfs statute, It la eald that a paper suet beriled with au 

### otflwr, the r4QUirOaent le at leaat oowplled with when the party dellrers that paper to the orfleer at his o?flolal place 0s bualhess aa thsrs 1~~08 It with him. Whother ha does this uersonally or by ml1 Is. **we** think. 

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**‘ it**  **is aotualkr**  **n00ivOam.** **~Un~er*oorIng** **ours)** In aooord with thls statement of the law Is Oonmnwealth v. O’Bryau, Utloy &Compan~r,lb9 Ky. 406, 155 9. W. X1.26.

In Stat.0 4x rel. O*I&arnv. **Eriokson,** Gount7Auditor, **supra,** a aandldate ?or tbs offlee Q? State Reprosentativs mailed an **appliOat%OB** 

### to have his **B~QU** phOOa on tha ballot on the last day for legal rilfng aad it was not reaelvrd until the rollswlng day. Ths oourt held that the da7 tho appllsstion was aotual17 reoeited by the proper O??Is8r was th0 day It was filed.

Consapuently, It Is the opInlon of this departmnt, and **you aro**  **respeatrully advised**  **tht** whm nn appllsatlon 0s a oandiaate to have his nanwplaoed upon the **primary** ballot In propar form and oontainlng every mattar requ&red b7 law Is tranamltteathrough the **UBitOd** States mall8 **ana** la reoelved by the proper OffloOr within the time allowed by la~;lt IS !'?lledR within tha msaning of r;rtiole 3112, VO~BOB'S Annotated CIvIl **strstutes.**

APPROVECJUN 26, 1940 Very truly 7ours