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' OFFICEOFIHEA'LTORNEY GENERALOFTEXAS AUSTIN G-G.- A--

Boao.?a~lo Char. Ml.,Cartner, Chlrf xlaeaaoyaary Dl*islon 

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Or pow letter of 3eptamb.r 18, 1 that i&r F. L. r 

### the Wlahlta Pa118 FarmandDairy ihp@ra8lre to **rake** a apurporr of qolbathg Uiahita Palla~Gtat* iforpltal, artmeat upontbs r0110wlag

10rush ~ropowd trip I&. **A.** T. Brattoa oao

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### 73) Kr.A. T. arattoa la notanoilploy** or the 'irlahlta Falla Stat.0

### Hospltel **but** la the Parr and Dairy ~tlpe~lwr for the St&b dorrrd or Control andtha 'slohlta ?alls stota iiobpltal la aa loetltution andrr tha ~urisdlation 0r trlr drpartfmat or the Board 0r Control and 88 ouoh the &lry lnduotry of the oald %lohita&XL.Char. Vi.Castnar, Page E

Pall8 State !iospital la under the aatlvr supervldon of Gr. Brattoa, will the r.lohlta Ball8 Stat. Iiospltal bopsmnitted to pay Xr. i3rattoa’r out-of-State travrling erpeares in the aattsr referred to in attached letter,w In reply to your first queirtlon, you are advlsed thut the purpose or the proposed trip, to-wit, the purchase ol dairy cattle for the :;lohIta Balls Stat. Hoepltal, a Stat8 elremosyaary Institution, la clearly the aacoiapllshmat of Stat@ buslnetm.

In aaawor to your smond question, wedlroat your attMtiOa t0 the fOmWink3 prOViSiOn Or the glB!Wrti rider appended to EkwmBill Ho. 256, Dot8 or the 46th Legislature, in whIoh act them appears the appropriation madofor the Wlehlta Pall6 State Eoiorrpltalr

“%xaept as herein otherwlsr provided, no moneyehall be expended for travel ezpenser except that speaIrIoallg appropriated for said purpose; provided this limitation ahall not apply to travel andtransportatloa expenses or patients, lmatee andAlabam-Courhattl Indiana, of Indian Rerervatloa and lnetltutlonal employeer’ travel In conmotion with patientr, inmates, pupils andAlabeur-Couahattl Indians, inaludlng returning esaapaa, transrrrr, paroles, and plaocameata of lnaatee and patient8 and traneportatlon **and**travel expentm of aonvaylng Indians to andrroa Unit&dBtates Indian hosr pit&a In OklahoiPaandother hoapltals or ollalas in Texas, oi Board of Codtrol enployesr, whose salaries are paid fronr lnatItutlonal **funds, and** of institutional euprrlntennbeatr andthe Indian agrnt,, whrrrln speaiiio amounts are omittrd troa the itemized approprlatlonri andruoh tram1 andtran8portatlon expenree maybe paid fros support andzmiatsnanoe appropriations 

### and/or local instltutlonal funda.” This 

### portion ot the msnrral rider, just quoted, clearly prohIbIt8 the paymnt of ths travsllng l xpenree incurred ,by !&. Towaaendin oonmotloa with the propored trip out of support andzmlntsaanoo or local funds oi the Inatitution, unless it aanbe said that the payant or mch travelIni+~xp~~norris authorized In the proviso.

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Hon. Chae. if. Caetner, Page 3

Theproviso in OrrOot otlpulatee that where specirfa amunto are omitted iroa the Itesized appropriations, for traveling expen8et3, travel andtranrportatloa expense8 my be paid frownsupport andmlntenanoe appropriation end/or looal lnstltutlonal fund8 in the following instanceat
Imater, andl*Alabam-Coushattl Indiana.

Travel andtransportation expen8e8 of patienta,

t. Travel andtransportation expenree of Indian Rerenatloa andIn8tItutlonal employerr travel in conneotion with patients, lmbate8, pupils andAlabajla-Coushattl Indians, including returning escapee, traa8ier8, parolee, andplaorment8 of Imte8 andpatlentr and transportation andtravel expense ot conveying Indian8 to **and fmm**  **the** United State6 Indlan,hospItale in Oklahomaend other hospltale or ollnI0e In Texas.

Travel aad tranrportatloa expenses of Board of Contro13&nployees who86ealariea 

### tire paid from instltutional rifada.

4. Travel andtransportation expenre8 of iastltutlonal superintendent8 andthe Indian agent.

It is apparent that the traveling expense8 to be incurred In connection with the proposed **trip** do not fall, so rar a8Xr. Townsend la concerned, wlthln any of the oategorles znentloned la the porlso. It follow8 that such traveling expeness incurred by Ur. Townsend cannot be paid from the support and salntsnance or rrom the local funds of the Wichita Falls State iioepital.

In reply to your third quertlon, you **are** advleed that the traveling expenaee incurred in connection with the proposed trip by your .2&r.Bratton could not be paid iron the **support** and ~lntenancr appropriation or rropo3L the local Institutional fundo oi the #icblta Falle State Hospital, unleaa they roll within the category mmtioned in the provlro Off v~ravel l xpen8e8 or Board 0r Contml erqployees whose ealarles are paid from Inatltutloaal **ruad8, I)** 

**. .**  **.**The aharaoter of employee referred to la thin portion of the provlre quite evidently hae reference to tho8e esployeas or the State Board or Control ror which prOVIsiOn Is 8ade **by way** or appropriation in that pm&Ion of the.
Hon. Cham.W.Castner, Pago 4

paragraph sntitled (b) under “revolving fund **and** institutional remelpts~, In the general rider appended to the aot above referred to, whloh reads as followr :

‘There Is also appropriated to the State Board or Control out or any inatitutlonal receipts or funds suohamurlta as my be neooaeary for traveling 

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## 0rthe Dlvleion 

## orileemosynary Inrtitutfonr provided ror in mtiole 690

## 0r the Revlaed Civil Ytatutrr of 1925, andother nsoresary help; * * ** It mm98that Ur. Bratton Ie not amployrd by the stats Board of Control under thi8 provision, but that hi8 position ir oarrled in the approprlatlon mdo to the Stat. Board oi Control, by the d@partaental appropriation bill passed by the 46th

## h@StatUre, Outot the genrral fund 

## 0rthe otats. Since the trarelinng rrpeneee of’ i&r. Bratton for the purpose recited in your letter do not fall nithln the proviso above quoted, It iollowe,tbat the nlchita Ballrr State Hospital oannot pay Xr. Bratton out of state travmlIng expenses In the matter rsterred to out of support and and.naIntsnanoe aparopriatlon **or** looal tunda of the Institution. Slnoe th6rr is **no** other appropriation avallablr to the VilchIta Fall8 State Borpital out ot which Mr. Bratton’s trafellng expeaaea could conoelvably be gaid we**need not**  dlsoum the querrtlon whether, 

## ii xr. Bratton Is not one

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## orControl paid n-00InatitutIoaal fund8of the partloular elsemoeynary Instltutlon, his travelLog axpensss oould be paid In any rvont by the Wiohita Balls State iiospital out of aay appropriation available to It. Yours rsry 

### truly ATTORNEY GENERAL OF TEXAS

Richard W.Fairchild

Aaristnnt