Case Information
*1 OFF& OF THE AlTORNEY GENERAL OF TEXAS
AUSTIN
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r60 llbmrt under U lq thi8 attiol* r8’ Court ha8 a- orted to, mat a the +oQarr of t thhr thmiMiaDirs’ th an alt6ady rat&- ~tltiolt or 4 arjOtlty . .1. . .A.a.u., ~~68 88 +O~UI
. . with erkbllahad llb~t~.~Znstaa4 it.* libruy, i 0 tbw4 at the 0ou.d my autraat iae ut&Whad altar4 4&4&t DtOVl6e tbrt 8uah *2 iIon. Ras&en 8. -ohs, psga 2
upan, to be paid *out oi the aounty library fund. Elthst party to ouch oontmot may tarslnstr the aama by gltlag six month notid of lataatlM to do so. rroperty 4ioguirea nuA4.r 8uoh ocintrroq shall ba subjaat to aitiaicui at th8 toralnatlou of tho o;mtraot upon suoh trraB a8 arc, 8polfleU in suoh doatrlat.* aot autharlzlk troa llbrarias Tiu iliri leglalatita atntr, Aats oi
to ba sstsblishs4 was parrsd by the 3Cth l&is 1915, Chap. 117, beginning on paga 175 of the QIllaral Laws of ZOXSO. Thla was sntltlsd aa sot *to ratsbllsh, maintain, oouaty fr.r llbrsrlrs aad oporata, equip and dlarstrbllsh oounty olroulstizq llbrariu for ths fl;a* OS thr sitltans oi statq.... l , aad mid act unArmrunt subssqusat rstirlona dth the last r~tlrion hots of 1919, 36th Legislators 2nd Csllsd 3ssslon fouad ~aoorpotatrb ondrr Tltls 15, Artfolrs 1677-1696, Bwk~sd cltil Statutrs, 1925.
In osithrt thr orlglrml rot nor any prior l msndmmt ttmrsto aid the Loglalaturr see fit to araot ID(VS imarou8 for tbo anteil~ into of a oontrsot tith tlw prersqulsltss ruthorltler of an rstablleh6iI library than for ths oatabllsh- icq of a aounty from llbruy.
Artiolr 1678, R.C.3.. 1925, o.mfers thr suthorlt~ 0~8 ths omals4lon4rs~ oourt to l stsbllsh county trro llbrerlss “OIL their own lnftlatlv*, or ahan ‘patitloned to 60 so by * mjorlty of the toter#.ot that put d the aounty to be eifaotrd*. b the Lsgirlaturr, by direot l xpr~ssl~n, gatr suoh court pOvrSr to rstabllah ooaaty trao oa their om lnltlstltr rlth- llbrarlrs if t&a oourt l o ahoaa, w assnot brlhtr that out a @Ation, they lnteudad to wit&hold thls'porrr fras l uah oowt in the oaao Zot llbrsry prltUsgss iropl OOIPO ot entaring into a ooatraat already srtrbllshul library.
It t8 OUF bait& that th* WVFd81 'UPOD )WtitiOZh Of as oaotalard ia said msjorltr of the toters of the ocmtp, Wtlolo 1691, supprsi?ii they hata any a8nalng at rI.l in tbls utlols, refer baok.to thr prroedlng OlaUS4 In dsOO?lptkUa Of the manner 'of establishis& s ssperste ooonty frrc, l~brsrym.
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(,a thr OpiAiOll 9f da artzlant it that the oodssioaerr* for 1 bruy oourt may acatrsot ptlvllreo8 frda sosa already a~obllshrd libtsrt upca thsit ma lnltlativ~ m6 ulthout 8 prtltlon Of trio rPrjOFit7 cb totos of tha 6otiaty.
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