OFFICE OF THE An'ORNEY GENERAL OF TEXAS AUSTIN
EonorableE. P..Wapbrll CotuityAttorney ?isber county Noby, Texas %a81 sin ,' _
sd dated 'day14th. 1831, recorded in Vol. 90 on page 545 of the'Records of Flsber county, a deed aa8 xaxde%o 34% aores 'oflend, through the Farm of W. S. CleYelaad. This deed me nade to the County Judge aa8 his suoaeasors in ofrice, for a cash considerationor $700.00, %ow after this ded was mde along v.$th several other Deeds to land for tbls Blgbt-of- %ay, the State E.i@way Coamlsafon changed its -.
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"mw while tillsDoed was 2uldo to the county Judz$ ot fisherCauntjr aad his ~~ooeaa~m Sn orrice, It was pr00urra at the epeoial inmuioo ma tWeoticm or the Ytato Xi&may cefazulet?l~n for atate Ifi&way l?o.7% "yqm the.& w, ;;*Clt%Y!3lfmd who sold this tr-aatof lena.to Plsher Gauajj, has mdo a aon- tradt of land ~ofvhioh this traot to seiU -tfis i%33 aoreo is a part, but he or 00~~88 aannot fmks.. .tltleto the land until the Iioednatter is oloarefl it?." 3nsoB upon tha abtive faotiipea ask our opinloa .'~: di;oha5 t1t1o and oontrol or .
we, W, 9. Clovelend,and wlt0, i20~ie or the county 0r Fisher, mats or Terns, oonslderatiocior tha WZ.Rof BOYBIIhundred . (&%OolirO)Eidlaro to ug paid and.c+eour& by i%ohar CounC7,~Tsxao,ae I?ollowet~
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70 In Zitaher. county, Texa8. . . .* - ;;'o vioh to thank you ror suberitting'a m4mrAAdum this question. '&%have orrrtSul.ly eYA?dAOd the 9~,7tad tharaln as tie11+x8other pertinent proYb 'iiile 116 or tha &wised cl011 stntut.toa as AineAded.
"All deeds, &Fante rnd oonveyanoeehe+ tofare or hereafterJade an& duly~aairnorladge4, or proven, and reoordedae other doeb¶s0r iwn- 7ajanoe, to my otnuxty,or to the courts or comlaoioners Or, aog aowty, or 0ny other aax- ROA or persona, by whatover iom of oonvayanoe, ror the we 5nb b0writ of any oounty, qu0.l bo go04 eAd Vtiid to Teat in suoh @tmnty'in.fas aiQplo or otherwise all suoh right, title, intersot imd estate he the $mntor la ouy auoh inetmmmt had at the tipisof the U4OtltiOA t!Wsof in tho landa oonveyed end.ma intQa6od thereby tObe ~~. ooaveyOd.Q xrti101.5 1.577, E.C.S, read5 40 P0mmi1 c .--
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conveyud. Nothing don,tainsa In thIs~artIole shall authorize any oum~&3rIonersoourt to dispose of anr.landsgiven, donated or granted to such odunt~ for the 3upose of eduaatkon in any othar mxter than shall be directed by law." In this oonnsotion,na quote IroD the ease if L,lSzlO county V. KJUnTl48,~B~~l.,eo E.-UT. 549, as fal1owB.t I . The eount~ cszulct dlveat itl3el.f oi title ~~a'l.and sxoapt in the method prescribedby the-ZXattrts.Fergason v. Ealrsell, 47 Tex. 421. It cannot donate any real eatate oS the county to any perscnfor any purpose. llhelanguage of Chief JusticqFisher, court, In ths case OS Llano Co. v. Johnson~(decrided.' Jab. 16, 1895) 29,S.W. 30, is peculiarly : a2plIoable to'the Sacts OS the casesat'bar and, we quote the saze as decisive 04 the quest1on 'before us; *The commIseioners*court of the countr,oseu~y towards it property only,a trust