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Y&narable Chas. -i. Faasiamr Chief, "lemnosymy I>ivision Stats Ward 3f tintrol ,hlstb?,

Tsras

%iS will acLn0Wled~eremi* of ;yDur letter of Ootober 17, 1640, requesting *he opF&.cn of this departmmt upon the follotingquestimr "h&y the superinteirde~t of the ;Ysoo

::tate Ii0814 use fuads of that 'nstitution5.n

the plaoementof inllates in horns8'outsidethe %ato of kBxas*,having in mind tne provisionsof the last paragraph, pags SOX, of ths !:psoial Znws of the State of Twae, passed by the fsgular rbsaion of the Forty-Sixth~gislature?" %otim 5 of ibuso Bill 266, Chapter 7, Speoial Lavcs i939, Forty-Sixth :,eg:slatme,pages 238, 301. 

### reads, in part. 89 followsr "ixcapta8 hersia othm?aiseprov:dad,no money shall b expanded for 'iravel axpmarss sxoept that speoifically appropriatedfor said purposesprovided this lixitat:or. shall not apply to travel and ~b=amport*tion

expenses of patients. inmates and Alabama-Coushatbi indims, of IndianRasemtion a?d institutional employees* travel in oonnsattlon

with patients, ir,mtes,pupils and Plabam- C&&mtti .Indians,

imludtig returningesoapes, transfera,parolns,and' plaoaaeuts of imates aud patients and transport&Son end travel expense of coweying iudiansto wd from United Ymterr Indian hospitals in Oklabna mnd other hospital8or olinios in Texas, of Board of Controlemployeeswhose salarisiwe paid form inatitution~l finds,and of inat.itutional supefinteadents

end the indiaa agm%, rrher&-,

speoifio amounts are omitted from the itemizedappropriations; and such travel and trhnsportatio~~ exparisas

IW+y be paid fram'mJppartz and mai&wanae appropriations srld or looal institutional funds." mla the provision) of the ElwmoaynaryApprop~litim Bill quotad abwq, take:; 5y itself,may bo libsrallyoo+ruod to authorizethe payment of trar;sprtation

expense incurred ti aonnaotion with the plro-t Of mside;,ts of the I%OO State &WI, it mat bs interpretedtog&h- with other statues relating to the Vaao Stat0 %BIO, ORa of *hioh ia A~%010 9266, ~!.mo~.l~

DnnotatsdCivil Statutes,whioh raads in part aa follorss- .

Honorable Chas, 17. Castner, Fags 2 O-2836

"SSO- 2. go ohild shall be dismissed from the ~aoo Stats iions *till mm suitablehome has been found for~lt, or it has boo~.s self-suppot-t;ing and only then upon the mitten recommrsndations of thenxpsrdnt+>dent to the 3oard, or when any vmrd exmitted to sfvid Home has beoome ,,,arrJ,sd with the oonsent of the Board and superintendent. Children ,,,ay be plaoed for adoption only in homes approvedby the Division of Child Relfare, State Eoard of Control. Gppon the adoption or marriage of any suoh ohild, the Visitorialand regulatorypowers of said hoard and

suoh Board or representative oonosnAng the oonduot, snplo~, treatnent,or conditionof said ohild. If in the judgnent of the Soard it should be for the best intarestof said child that it be returned to said Y+Go ?&ate Home. the Board is her&.enpowered to 'haveit returned." (Underscoring ours)
?&to that any ohild not adopted going from the Home is under the oontinusd supervisionand guidanceof the Board, and that the Roard or its representative

are requiredto visit the pJaee where the child Is living at regular intervals;and the childnay subsequently be required to return to the Home. !hlder Arbiole 3259, the duty of supervision and the povmr of control remain in the Poard after a obild has been 110 plaoed, and not only would the diffioultiesof adniniatration

be great indeed, if, as in the present ease, representatives of the Board were requiredto make regularvisits to the child in its %lifonia homes but it. is quite possible that Texas as the sovereignparens patriaewould completelylose jurisdiotion over the ohild to the Stats of California- Californda being bound to allow only by a oonity it night not ohoose to reoongnisethe priority of the ~enas claim. Goldsmithv. Salkey (Sup. Ct. 1936), 131 Ten. ,139.112 S. Ii. (Zd) 166. -pare ?Jilligan V. Stats (1884). 97 Ind. 365. hs stated by Hr. Juatioe Cordosa 40 .8. L R. 937: *the jurisdiotionof a state to regulate the oustody of infants found within its territorydoss not depend upon the domioile of the parenta. It has its origin in the proteotionthat is due to the inoompetentor helpless
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Consequently,it io the opinion .ofthis departmentand you are rerpeotfully advised that funds appropriated for the Woo State Honemay not bs used to defray transportation expenses of @n&ate8 in aonneotion with their plaoen&u in homes outside of Strite of Texas.. -
Hmorable &as, ga Oastner, ?age 3 O-2636

Verytrulypurr
M'TORKXY GENERAL OF TEXAS I/ James D. Smullm

v Jama D. !hmllen

Assistent

XWROV%U NOV. 19, 1340 s/ GeraldC. Menn

GERALD C. EUJH AlTORNbT GUER4L OF TEXAS