said JuniorColle e District urauantto the above quotedprovirionsoP;Article281jh,Section7b. (cl additionaldutiesare %mpsed upon the County Tax Ass&or-Collector and he does not hold two officesin d.~~$ar~ng such duties. PrulttW6 Glen Rose I.S,Db 4 S.WO (2) 1004 and cases cited therein. The result is merely the impositionof addStiena1duties upon the office of CountyTax AsseasomCollector. Article 2815h,SectioniX, V*A.C.S,, pro- vides as follows: "The Assessor and Collectorof Taxes for the JuniorCollegeDistrictshall enter into a bond with two or more good and suf- ficientsuretiesor for the pro- tectionof the JuniorGo1Yege fund, said bond to be made payableto the Board of Educa- tion of the Juni'or CollegeD,istrict and to be made in a sum net less than double the amount of money which may be in his h-ads at any time while in offioo, The amount ot said bond will be fixed b the Board of Educationof the dunicr Collegeii istrictand a co y filed with the State Board of Edueatiens Tie JuniorCol- lege Board shallrequire8 similarbond of any and all other personaor c,ororationsin whose possession such funds may &e kept," The first sentenceof Sqclionlip provider that "the Assessorand Collectorof TWes for the Junior CollegeDistrielr shall enter into 8 bond 0 e * for the protectionof the JuniorCollegefund": the secondson- tence thereofprovides"The JuniorCollegeBoard shall require a similar bond of any and all other personsor corporationsfn whose possessionsuch"fundsmay be kept," Under the provisionsof Sets 10 of Art+.2815h, the CountyTax Assessor-Collector fn the instant,situa- tion is intrustedwith the collectionof said taxes and shall on or about the Etnth of each month er at such other times as may be prescrtbedby the Board of - , .
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Educationof $aid Districtmake a report shewingall moneys collected, and shall plaw such findswith the Treasurerof the JuniorC&loge District. This statute Section11, express1 auther- ises the governingbodfes of Juni@-Collegei: ietricts to requirea separatebond when the CountyTax Ao- sessof-Collector act8 In such o&paoityfor the Junlor CollegeDistrict. It Is, therefore, our o n&en that the NavarroCounty Asssssor-ColleckreheUPd be M- qulredto make a separatebond undsr previaienaaf! Section11, Article 2&l!%, which b Sn,additien to, the bonds he has made under Articles7247 md 7249, said additionalseparatsbond to be made for the specificprotectionof the 3uniorCollegefunds, With respectto the paymentof the pretium en said separatebond requiredof the Assssrer and Collectorof aTavarro.County,we quote in part, the provisionsof ArElele~7247, V~,A. C, $*, as follows: eWbeneverthe assessorand colleotor of taxes of any.countyIs requirad'tegive a separatebond ta co*ap distr&ct taxas collected by him, suah bond shall be a)- provedby the governingboard, , 8 b of such districts,and the premiumon same shall be paid ant of first crl~bctlons for such dirtr%ctepw
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the State and County, Yours very trdy ATTOR,NEX GENERAL OF TEXAS'
By &&d&j:- Chest&r Ei;stUs By O. S., Cbainul