**%. OFFICE**  **OF THE**  **ATTORNEY GENERAL**  **OF TEXAS**  **AUSTIN GROVER**  **SELLERS AT~RNII** **GEWZRAL**

umorible leaver 88ker, Chairman **State** Board of Control Austin, Texan

Dear JuUc;dBaker8 **Opinion Ilo.**  **Oref+6S**
**Rer Ccmetruction**  **of** B. B;'Ho. 3b1, 49th Legielature w to **the loortiea**  **of**

purah8ee **4T rhrt**  **ia known**  **a at**  **Au&in.** Tbe Tribune Bui and **elnoe** its tenktire tire sad **Bueineerr co**  **3OWd Of**  uontre1, it B~ilUi~g~ruthorldeb Bkte Oitiae ilt, 81~3the

this phree of **the** situation.

**uildlnmg~ shall**  be deelgned to aareme 

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of Criminal Appeals Commission ofApperle; **the Stete** **’ s**  

### orethe Court of.Crimli~alAppeals; tbe Court of Civil Appe81sr Third **bicltrict; the**  **Attorney ffeneral~**  **of** Texas, and **such other**  **offioes es**  **speoe therein**  **Will pernit.**  This building **shall** be known ae **the** Etate Courta BuildinK-*
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**‘ The**  **other** o? aridbuildinge shall be design

### edand oonstruated for ottice spa40 only, exoept the ground floor nhloh shall be designed to oare for tenrate engaged in **8uoh** bueinesses aa will best aoeommodate theneeds o? State otfiaers and employees; eepeoiallT the drug, oate and barber businecss. The name of this building shallbe the 'State O?tioe Building.'"

Seotlon 6 18 letOll0Ymr
"That **the** Skfe Courta Building mhallbe loarted on the lot ot land **nor** o44upled by theSaltonBuilding. 8mid lot more partioularl~ dew orlbed a'stollorsr The '(lest halt ot the Sortd one-halt (l/2) of Blook 122, aa shorn on the orlg%nal plot of the olty ot 4stin."

**Seotlon 7**  **lo:**
'That **the** State Ottloe Building shallbe plaaed on the lot demoribea **as** tollorsr North **one-half** (l/2) at Bleak 124, 8e1**ohom** by **the** orlglnal lot ot the olty **or** Aumtln. 8016 oneh8lt (1/2yblook Is bounded on the rest by Colorado Street, on the.north by 11th Street, on the east by Congress AYenue.'
Bout~dJ Bill Ilo.201 osrrles an appropriation, but it isnot solely an appropriation bill; It ismore -- it la a legi~latlve sot proriding for the o4netruotlon of two State o??fee buildings. The 8pprouriation IIIan in4ldent to the **major** purpose of **the** construation 0t the two build&g:s. The Legislature having speciflaally prorided that the State Courts Building shall be loaated on the land **now** oaaupied by the **wal** t0nBuilding, and **having** epe4ltioally described the ground upon which the came should be loaated, **mu&h**location becomes an integral part ot the aat, **which** is binding. It caimot be Ignored or Yiolated upon 

### any**reaeons** of aonrenlenae, **economy**or otherwise.
The appropriation providing for the constru4tion of **much**building is, of Oourse, prediaated uponthe law eseential to the appropriation, **nhioh** law, as has been pointed ,Out, re-**f$** ,,.,+ '. **Sena#able** Weaver Baker - page 3 *. : ;~.- 1.::'

@rea thebnfldlag tobe **on** the site of theWalton Building east of Congress Avenue, and not on **the** vaoant property of the Statewest of Congrens Arenue~. There 16, therefore, no *pre-axieting 18~" for an appropriation for thebuilding mywhere other than on theWalton site.

**ATTO3NST tShB&** **’ OF**  **TEXAS**

APPROVED 

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