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

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YOUE r0qtl08t ror, fully son~1dec.d bl tttir de quert 8O rollolm1

h,,t?t&i%%~: c”e%?f:~ “ $; “ t”t,“; 

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### Of 20 OOO moor lhb 4 

### sob not 

### nor0 than 190,000inhabitant0 to tha lrat praoeading FodSMl~ OeMua, to t&x aalfirlar of 0SrtSln **nand** oftlol~lr, lnaludiEg the Count7 Treasurer. It dlrrota that the 8ab.v be firad at a sum 'not 1088 than thr total 

### mm t88m8a by tha 

### mapaotlve &ii@. ror the ySar 193% anQ not mrS tbrn the melnm amount allowed aaoh orrioer under hwm. Sri8tln6 on XiEi37!4,~ 19SSw. ft runhsr grotld’ea that 'in CO~~it.%48

hSVing a pOQUbt;OII Or PLOLY tbl 20 000 and 1088 than 37,800 inh&i ted@ sad ha& thr aalar s S ralmtion in exaSSa of 12 ai~lon,

es nay bm lnoraaaed 1% 

### ror Saoh MO million dollars 

### or rra0tibii tharsor in 0x0~88 Oi Oild 13 nllliod dollars, otaf and above the auou5t 

### allowed said official 

### uoderlaws 

### sxlat5.5g in 1938'. “S’romthe above it is seen that in tlxlnF; the Salary ioL, the County Treasurer of Wharton County, it la hoOaaary ths t the Camfaiaalonera~ Court dstarmfne 

### the maxlaum salary 

### +llourdthr cQ~un~~3maaurer under hwa exiati~ on August A&i in this OOJUiSOtiOIi th8 iOllOting t?t&Unent*and authozdtier am rO8pfJOtflllly 8ubdtted ror the Saaltanor or 

### yourdapartmsntt "Art. 3941 provides In subatanoe, that 

### thr County Treasurer Shall rsorlvs oom~laaloaa;~ 

### on money recelrrd and paid out by him 

### not to SxoSSQ 2#$ that what has been pSld out and rsoeir8dr “Art. 3042 proiidaa in aubatanoe that, 0r 

### money8 rooalrsd

and paid out whiah belong to school funUS, tho Traasurer Shall reOeiV0 II omnlaalon not 

### gr8atar than 

### * 0r 1%. "Art, 29Is in aubatanoe, prot%Qaa that tha c01~a1SSion Sllmued c o unt y Treasurers l

hnll aot erosed $2,000.00 par yaar. Herr follow oartaln exoeptloos, none or whloh apply to Wharton County, as shown above. This artlolS raa yssaed in 1920, and amended in 1927, SSQ 1931, and appear8 t0 ba thr law 

### gworningthe nSXimua SalSry tor raid orrfoa 

### e kugu8t 

### 24, 1938,and is uwr00t0Q by Arts. 5941 Snd 3942, Sup=, 8inaa Art. 3943, baa

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rapoalod thr 4bova artiOt.a8 by iBp&ioation due’fo the raot that it **wa8** enaotrb l obarqumt 

### to said l

rtlolo8, 

### ii oonfllot rrtrta.

9ut, 

### in my opinion, 

### no oonfllot batrauh Art.; SOU 3942 and 394S appears broauar Art. **s(H3,** by **it8 rxprrs8**  

### terms, simplylimits the amount of oommiaalona that mq. ba eaarneQ 

### undrr Art. 3941 and S942. %%noo tie 

### CountyTnaaurer if Wharton County oould earn as oommiaalona #t,OOOfOOa8 0r August es, 1938~ by Qlraotlon or 

### Art:3943, th18 sum plus 1% ior l a oh mllllon in l

xoeal of ;. million l

nQ rraatlon thorooi, rhloh would 7,000,000.00 

### or W40.00, maklng a total

18 tha maximum rl0urr to lm riw as tha 194B salary or raid oifiolal in the opli~lo5

or the 

### writer.*
You era reap4ottully adviaad that **it 18**  **6ho opia**  

### Ion of this 

### drprtnent that JOU bnvm oornotly l 

### rmwsr~d t&r question and 

### thatunder the feat8 atated la our loWar the 

### sum 0r $2,740.00 **18** the maximam rigun at w hl Oh the 194t salary or the 

### CountyTroaaurrr of 

### WhartonCounty .oan ba flxrd. **Sea authorltlra**  

### oltrd in and raaaoning of opinion Nor O-2972 of **thl8** 

### drpmrtment, rbioh among other thin@ pS@rd on the salary or the County 

### Treasurer of 

### Hunt County, Texas. wo l olaar herwith a 

### oopy or **said** 

### opinionforyour lntoxmatlon. Vary truly yourr AT'IORIplK

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