### OFFICE OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL OF TEXAS AUSTIN

31IRM.D 0. MANN

.“an .=I- **Maroh 25,**  **1939**

f&T.,L. L. ~mompsan **Oounty Auditor**  Taylor County 

### Abllene,

Texas 

### Daar 9irtUr. L. R. Thompson,G.roh 3, 1939, Page 2

proved by the Commissioners* COW%, the budget, as approvedby the Court shall be filed with the Clerk of the County Court, and taxes levied only in aocordanoetherewith,and no expenditure of the'fnndsof the aounty shall theresfterbe made eroept in striot oomplianoetith the budget as adoptedby the Court. braept that emergenoy expenditures,

in ease 

### or grave pub110 neoe68ity, to meet unusual and unfore8esnoondltionswhioh could not, by reasonablydiligent thought and attention,

hsve.bsen InolPasd in the .orlglnal

***& na**  **debt** for **any** 

### purpOi4 shall eve be lnotunvd In any stannor taysay oltg or ahtnty tanlosa p~~ision im redo, at the t&e ar oreatit@ the same, for levyin& and aolleoting.@"u;r
. i. 3. Thompson,Xarah 3, 1939, Page 3

a wfflclent tax to pay t.3e Interestthereon and provide at least two per oent (i$) a4 4 slrlkln~

fund." The word *debt* **a8 ueed**  in the Constitutloc hiae beein defined by the YupromemQurt a8 neanlng:

**y:,ny** peouniaryobligation imposedby ooutraot, eroept suah as were, at the date of the contcaot,tithin the lawful end raeaonableoonteqrlationof the partIe8, to be 

### satisiiod out of the surrant

rwottuea



### r0r tbo y-r, or out 

### of am 

### ~fund

then ulthla.the

#ti&lato oontrol of the oorpor8tion.* yams T. 

### city or utt~~o, 89 Tar. 83, 53 sll

388; bnuala, v. Stran&h,. 196'SR84#1 Stammmn v. **8lakr,** 

### 68 8U (&WI) 97s. 11s SW (2nd)

sm. '2 ~:~y..



### Vfhera the 

### requlrmnt8 of the 8tatut8 have bemn ooaplled

*iOh, it 8aem8 to us W easilyoouldbe datermlned at any timewhether the rum'oialainsr8prewating ordinary 

### axpentsea of the ooontyamountad tm aa muoh as It rsauonably

ooulb ?m l

xpaatsd ths ourrantk&r. 1. 2. Thoqmon, Sarah 3, 1939, Page 4 *

**revenues** of the county would mount to. ":-can it ~6s fount the$ did, it seems to uz1 it xicht have well been 

### aaid that such ordine;p erpnnsea of the aounty 88 *rem thersuttemartisincurredwere wltbln the prohiM.- tion Of secticn 7 of ertfole 11 of the 

### Con**etltution. ”** 
It will be noted tbat the 

### above-quoteddefinltion c::;'

"debt* , on well ae the atetementof the TOXIU**kaae** Court, appeared in opinlono prior 

### to the eaaetaeat or th8 Buagotstotuts. We ouuwt interpret 

### the."emr~ olauaem

of that statute

to oontrnveae

the ooastitatimal B8MdO.
It 8hou.M ba kmrno in rind that the lb ia wall eettled

**that** 

### ooastltutloaal **fund6** 

### .M **the** 

### ooaatyaanaot b0 tpinero,rr0d rr4m on0 rtlnd t0 wxt.mr, aor M; 

### tax m080y rd80u-ofktoxibibi~ r0r -0 .pwpo~, b0 8xpd0d for uiahOrr 

### .&e Oarroll

V8. WilliaJu,

109 Tex. 185, toe SW $04. QBL: the &her band rtatatory far+ may bo traaarerrmd I&t. 1w; P. c. ~8.I ml 0 apparentpurpo8e of SootIon 8h of. 

### thm Badgot.&w abow-quoted..ir,to erideaoo

the .$atoatioa or 

### the Lmgi8l&aro

iot to 's.the rlgbtoofa~amrie8ioaer8'



### Uourt in treaatorrih6

stmt&~,-faa&8 fra 

### one mad to 

### another.

You are, thererom, **advia&** 

### lt 1s our opinl6m the 

### souaty**au&et** aennot be momled la an aaoun~axosadlng the 

### l

otlolpatedrev0nu.m in may pertioula~r$~4 80 

### aa to oreatea dobtrlthta the meaalrgof seotf6a'T Art. 

### 11 of the Conetltutioa, ualem 0 tax bo tot&b pay mid debt; 

### aad this fe true ru$a@le8a of the @x18- toaoeor ubl%oaeoemlty and unferikmkn oonditionai **We do**  **Id** the 

### budget may be man4.d **by** 

### tho Oommlaaloala * C o ur tí

in a o o a r & a uo * r it b **the** p r mi8i o a o or Bo o tl o n 

### l2 (Vemaoa*a,

Art. 669a-11)

or tlm unfrorn 

### Bud@t Aot lr a debt a8 above 

### derineb18 

### not oreatcrb, 

### upon **a** fir& 

### ing by the Court,mxpporte4 by the faot8,that~@aemergenoy exietein auoord wtth 'the

provision

of.,salQ 

### 8eofl.m. Vary trulypoure WRRALOFT