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OFFICE OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL OF TEXAS AUSTIN
**GROVERSELLERS ATTORNEY**  **OENCRAL**



## HGB. c. c. 018eB county kttorlmy :wlisler 

## county Kermit,Tax88 Dear Sir: 

### d.^. aalarler 

### brnanei canty :, .,* ,--.. 0rti0OrO fox>945 at an

,’ ,,I .,11s inor@ase over and

above maximumallored

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,. .- euah ot?Iorrs on Awust :’24, 19353

,’ To have r&hod your rseent rrqurrt ior an opinion, from whloh we pUgtO ga idlO~S1 Y.- %.

.j ,,~ ‘. I :\, -The pertlaulsr quastlon PfhesIre to hare enswere is based upm the folio-4ng faOta:

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“(1) That the Coaalssloners’ Court of Wnkler 

## Countf,Texaa>;has pareed at itr Jmuary regular ,terwan order putting all oi the oounty and pre-

~‘-alaot oiiloiala Ona-salary bar16 iOr the yam 1945.

m(2).-Thst thr population OSWnkler County eoeordlng to the 1940 Federal Consu8 la 6,141;

. ..\ ‘(3) I~‘1944 tta approved tax roll waa In the sumOS ‘2&819,098. ‘

.I. -..a’ Van the CommissIonera * Court oi v;lnkler County,

‘Texas, proooedlng under Article 3912(e), 7eo. 15, pay to the oounty judge, the sheriff, the tax ssaeasoroolleotor, the county anddlatrlot Olerk, end the county attorney the eleven per cent inorease in 0018~ penaation ror the year i91*5?”

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Hon. 0. 1. Olsen, **~sge** 2

ceatlon 15 a? Artlole 3912a. V. A. C. S., reeds, In part, **as** r0ii0w8:

**ma** CommlssIonersl Court in or>ustIes having a population o? less than twenty thousand (20,000) Inhabitanta, eooording to the last preoedlog Federal Census at thr **iirst** regular meting In January of esoh oalondar yesr, meypssa en order provadlng ?or oompensstIon of 811 county andpreolnot offloers on a salary basis. TheConmissioners Court In eaoh or such counties ia hereby authorized, nndit shall be its duty, to fix the salaries o? Crlmlnal District Attorneys. In the event suahCourt pssses suoh order they shell peg to eaoh o? said Dlstrlot and County o??Ioers In moneyan annual sslary in twelve (12) equel installments o? not less than the total **sum** earned **SB** compensation by said otflcer In hie said ofriolsl ospaolty ?or the fiscal year or 1935 end not more than the maximumallowed suoh oiflcer under laws existing August 24th. 1935, Sndnot more than the maximumamount allowed such officer under laws existing August 24, 1335, provided, thst in counties having **a** populstIon o? **leS3** than twenty thousand (20,000) Inhabitants, according to the lost preoeding Federal Census, andhaving anassessed valustlon In exoess o? TenMillion (~lO,OCO,OOO.OO) Dollars acoordlng to the last praacding approved tsx roll o? ouoh **county** the maximumamount allowed **suoh o??ioera**  **as** salerles maybe Increased one (1%) per ocnt ?or esah OneKillion (~1,000,000.00) Dollars valuation, or freotlonal part thereof, In exoess of said Ten!.‘Il.lion (~10,000,000.00) 3ollsrs veluatlon over end above the ~~?xlrr.urn

amount allowed suoh of?Ioers under laws exlstInc;on August 2i+, 1735; provided, however, no salaries covered by this rocticn shall exceed the sumo? Pour Thousand Five Hundred (:.L,500.00) Dollprs reqardlass of the percentage o? Increase in population and voluetion &nd provided ?urther that In all counties ?:avlng anopulation o? not leas than twenty thoi.Lsandand cne (20,001) nndnot moro than tvdonty-?!ve thousand (25,000), scoordin~ to tha last ?receding +dersl Census, nn(iahich has an assessed velustkn in axceas or %ent.y-r?ve YillIon (‘25,000,5OO.C0) dollars HOcorcii;ig to the lest preceoing al?nrovo~Ztox roll of such oountles, the ccmty ju@?, rhcri??, county attorney, ~sscs::or a& collector a? taxes, county

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alork and dlatrlot dark, the marbum salary 18 hareby firad 

### at Three Thousand Tovan fiundrad au8 Fifty (33,7!YJ.O0) Dollars.

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Under tho exproar authority ot the above atatuta, your Ccamiaalonota~ Court mayrix tha aalarloa of woh oifloera ror the ansuln(yyaar ll$ over andabove tha marlnumamount ellowad such ortlcara under lows oxiatln# on August 24, 1935, prorldad none of suoh aalar:ea shall axaaad tha sun of Four Thousacd live Eundrad (@+,500.001 DollSrS ragardlaaa of tha peraentage 0r lnoresae In population end valuation.

?e 0811 to your attention that tha population breoket by xhloh the n?axinumsalarlea ailowtd auuhorrloara la fixed, la deterrainad by the Federal Canaua of 1930, but t;le inoreaae or ciaximumsalary allowed 

### umhrCeeo. 15of l ald Art. 39120, aupra, lu dotim&;:cd by the last prooedlag Faders1 Census (19401, together with the hot preoadlng approved tax roll (194k). mebellevo thla la fully axplelnad in our O9lalon No. ~-5986, a oopy or whloh la horoto attaohed.

Trusting the above fully enawars your question, we are Your8 rorg truly,

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