OFFICE **OF THE**  **A?TORNEY GENERAL**  **OF** TEXAS **AUSTIN**

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'I am *loo **iaiormed** that **thlr ‘** **relligiour** lnrtruotion, 18 OS 8 Qwt1ouhr dbzia8inbtloaOP 8QOt oxoluriroly, end 18 aot merely 6OXWti lnrtrwtloa ln PO11&$Oa. 

### Th8Mgular l heolhour8uw framSto0 A.M. to 4tOO P.M. during the day.*
Pou rtrtb thet you uw Informed that the lnrtruotlon 18 Of e PWtiOti- dmcnniMtiOlL '2hi8 OpiniOl3 i8 OQrO8Bl~Honorbblo 

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rritka On th. a88UQtiOA tbnt suoh iniMtiOn 18 oomot, 

### end It la rooordirrgly oollmlted.

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,688. 6. All am hat. a aetuml uad Indot to wrr8hlp Alalghtr God aboordOat08 Of theil,

Om eOKl801OtIOO8. MO man ahall **be** ooxt~elled to attoad, rreot or mlppo~t any plao. of WOr8hip, or to rul.mtaln tiny minirt~ e@i.xUt hl8 OOn8.t. IO hymn 

### ~uthorlt trelor Inought, In aq oap* mhatevot, to oontbrfWr with the right8 of,ooarotenco In utter8 of relligion, and n0 pretwonoe rhlll 6ver be given by law to any r~ellglou5society or mode or uorshlp. But it shall be tka dut of' tb ~~i8letUW to p&58 ruoh &LU8 88 mrj L Ii40088W~ t0 pZ?OteCt

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### any 8u0h purbootion 6 OS Artlcla VII, aonrtltutlon of Texar, proVidO8, in &MI+, &I fOuOV8:í 0 4 l And no law &all ever bo maoted ap oay pert oi the poraenent or arallfUXbdtO~otber~8. tit.Wsri

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### aot rsqulrad to jola, wu eotlonablo uader the abow quoted prori**81OPI** Of tb 8u al80 Na.ffes t8 Board 0r 

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l x~~I~s~o~~~~l~lno~o~r. w* QUO- the f~llo~lng from th8 opinion of the oourt:

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### for tha **8uppO?t of**  **any pertiotier**  **dmKdnatiOn of**  ro**li&orU PO**  **10,**

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wouldnotba taon8eoteriath Such l **XWOiU8** would 

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th0 pub110 

### 8OhO018. See r380 16 C. J., No. 604. 

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### Ir not merely general 

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YOU S8k tithSF thS LlooLI hOW 18 PU’t Of thb 8OhOO1 day. There 

### ou1bo DO **doubt** 

### that under Art1010 R906,Retl8ed OiViL. 8titUt@8, it IS. 800 that pert of Artlole 0906 whioh provide81

.A .OhOO~ mOZ&h 8hdl OOIlli8t Oi tlOt 1088 thrn tibatr 8ohooldrp8, lnoluslto of h0lld~78, and shall bs tau& for not 1088 thaa 8woa hours gL$iEi: sii$$Fif ilItOti88iOn8 & ~eOOUb8.0
However, won without this statute ss think that ths noonhourmuldbs a QIst of ths 8ShooldAy. ThO baud of frwtee6 drtWmin.8 th6 time U.d tOZl&h Of Z'tJOOS8O8~ and thr 8tUdents sre SubjeOt t0 tie SUpOmi8iOn Ot t&O 8OhOOl authoritior. Tour 8eoond question IS, **ttrsreioro,** 

### uurered in tie afilrmatlYe.

You ark the rsoond qu.stion in ooMeotion with the otiWing of X’S1iglOUS i.MtZUOtiOa in m sohool. W@ think it propw to 8ktS how ths lolloring rule **uznounoed** by the Supreme Court In Joralgen v. F'laley, 90 

### Tu. 206, 58 S. 7i.24, in constzwlng that part OS Saotion 6, Art1010 vxx of the Constitution tioh we heye heretofor. **qtlotodc**

sThs Lsglsleture osnnot do by lmllrootlon 

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W* think thl8 

### ruling l ppllos to all three.of the oon8titUtiOti proYl8lon8 **under** oon8ideratlon. In other 8Orb8, th8 rohool oennot **ofrer** religlow inrtruotlon of a seotarlen ohsractar ragerdlu8 

### 0r when **or** how It 18 oftered. The 00h001 osmot do by lndireotlon 

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### oennot do dlreotl7.
Wr wish to thank you tar your very able brief.