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**OFFICE** OF **THE** ATIORNEY GENERAL OF TEXAS

.I AUSTIN

HonorableSidney Latham Secretaryof State **Austin,** 

### Texas

e oharterwhich olauae froai

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tions is shown in many parat la formed is to or laprove-ant and to said purpose and to

to carry out the purpose or thfs corporation aa above set forth, it is the intention of the incorporatorsherein to proaeed ae follows:axendob, and aa auah to acquire, repair, aaintaln

and operate a hourfng projeat in or within two files of the llmlt8 of Dalla8, DalIa County, Texa8.

e(g) When the indebtednessot thl8 aorporatlon on the 

### note to be exeouted **and** delivered by it to the Badera Housing Admini8tration,a8 part of the purchase priae for the ropertier h8reinabOve rei8XT8d t0 ha8 been palg and the prererred stoak provided $or In thi8 ah&ter ha8 be8n xetlred,

### th8n the PUCDO~O olauee Of thl8 corporation **Shall auto**  matioally be llsited to th8 lMSUag8 now 88t ro b th8 tiret parauraph Of thf8 88otiOEl of thi8 ohar

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### 0, (1). Mad8 in part:

v * * * the aor orationwithout 

### prioror other approval**or author**  **P 8atiOn**  **may** rrnt **or lea80**  **(a)** dwelling acoomdatlon8 to tenant8 8ololy ror

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The lnoorporatars! have **quoted** lubdirlrlon **48, Artiale**  1308,V.A.C.B., and we a8aum8 arguendo that th8y ham undertaken to conrlne th8lr **pOWer8** thereto.

In numerous paragraph8 in the oharter8 aomlng thereafter thryhare **attempted** to interpret the80 power8 under Subdlvlslon 47 (D" d to have the Searetar hen the purpose clause f or State Pa88 UPOn and aPPrOve the s(Mb. IIa charter 18 in the language of a subdirisfonof Axtlale 1SOS and the charter **go88** further and lnterPrOt8that subdivisionof the 8tatute in many **Waj8,** the &oretary 

### orstste has the right to **haV8** 8uoh intfmpr8tatlO19r8#EoV8d a8 BUT**PlUS88.** Whether a partlt)~ular traneaation or manner Of doing busiu.88 **18** within the purpose **OlaUS8** 18 a question for the UOUrt8 **and** not **ror** the Searetarg or State to determine.Johnston f. Tcwn8end, 103 **Tet.** lBt, 184 6. $1.411,

wa8 an RDo1iOatlOu to the SUPr8m **Court** r0r 6 wet 

### 0r mnndapu# roquiiiis the S8aretary 6i State to fli8 the ohhrter ot ~corporatlon offered by the relirtorr. In reruelng the **,imnda am,**  **Juetice William8**  8aidr

= * * * A CharterUU8t 8p8ciiJ the p~pOe8ibT which the corporation 18 to **b8 created.**  Thi8 8hould b8 don8 with 8UfilCientalearne88

### t0 **enable the**  **S8Or8-** t8Xy Or stRt8 t0 844 that th4I pUrp084 8pMiried 18 one provided **ror** br **the statute**  and to define with 80lR4 certainty the 8OOp8 Of t&8 **bU8in488 Or**  under**takl Y**  **t6 be**  pUT898d. The ohartor tender.6 in this Oa88 8 80 g4n8rRl and ind8finitO in it8 lem&uage that, while it

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with th8 purohare end 8a18 Of good8, 8tO., **U88d ior**  t, itmight 4180 be taken to authorlz8 th8

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euxoha88 and 8al8 lno f 0 b4 the pUr 084 Of the r41atOr8 t0 US8 the c ror the carry

P bu8lneese8. ng on or what we regard a8 tw0 distinct

**We**mey 

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**W8n a8**  tho8e 8p4Cie11~ inter88t8d in cOrporRtiOn8, are 

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ii * * * Alr b&St **th4 688UmptiOll**  **Of pOW4r8**  **not** grant8
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### b8 lnterar8teda8 f84anfnR and 18 intend8d to m8aQ that

Some **state8** require corporation **ahartere** to set **out th8**  power8 Or th8 CorDoration,but ia **Texas,** &tic14 1904, V.A.O. S., requiresth& the **purpose** be etatad in the abarter. When thi8 18HonorableSidney Lathnm, page 4

do- 

### the aorporatlonha8 all powera neoesaary to aarry out th8 porposeand the 8xtent thereor is a queetionof law **ror** the Q&xte. YOU are reepeatfullyadvised that yaahave the power w dieapprove tieproposed ohorter@. liavlngglvsn this anatarar to yourprinoipal question,we deem it unnecessary to anmr ycaar other quuestion8.

**Tours** rexy truly ATrOmm tlxJ:mizRAz

OF T%xAs 

# 4gmL-4 LJ2.m BY Davidk. Heath

Assistant