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*1 OFFICE OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL OF TEXAS Honomblo B. Y. CunUmgbm
cou?aty Auditor
&vmro county
Corslcuzm, Texas
Dear Sir:
aplalon of thb dqmrt- ted br beem roca1v.d. on 13 or APtio1e 3g12rr Vernon's Annofiated tetutor, reads ln part *II follovllt "The aomnlssioners~ aourt la aountlea hrviag a populatlon ot tvonty tbouam%d (20,000) lmbBb1tulta or more, and 1088 thul w hundmd 8&i Wty thou- aand (lgO,OOO) lnbabltrats aaoordiag to the lut preceding Wdeml Cssuw, &a bwoby l uthoriaed md it shrll be it8 duty to fix the Ml~'le8 Of rll the r0ii0ving 3~8~3 o~flc~mb,...."
Honorable E. Y. Cumlmghun, Pa@ 2
Seotion 4 of Artlclb 3912e, supra, provldms that: "In all oountiea of thlr State oontaining a population of 10s~ than one hundred end ninety thousand (190,000) inhabitant8 aaaordlng to the last preceding Federal %imm wher&n the county or preoinct of'fioers am oompensated on a salary bassls mder the provlsio~ of this Aat, there shall be created a fund to be known as the 'Offi- cers Salary FuRd of the County, Teaa.
Suoh fuud shall bo kept 8-e and apart from all other county fund8, aad ahall be held pnd dlrr- bureed for the purpose of paying the ealariee of officers and the salaries of deputies, assistante and olerka of oftlaera who are drawing a rralary fron said pund under the provielons of thi8 Aat, and to pay the authorized sxpemes of their offioes. Suah fmd shall be deposited in the county depoai- tory and shall be proteoted to the sama extent a8 0th0r 00wr funds."
Paragraph (c) of Seotloa 6, Article 3912o, supra, provldet3 tbatt Any morals8 mamining in the Of'ti- “Sm.(a).
deara* Salary Fund or funds o? any county at the end of any fiscal year aftm all salaries and authorlmd exponaes inourrod against said Puud for said ye6r ehall have been paid may be, m or- der of the o~mmlssloaera~ oourt, transferred to the credit of the General Fuml of the oounty."
mvarro County has a population of more than tveaty thoueand (20,000 inhabttants aM less thau ow hundred and ninety thousand 1 190,000) acoordlng to the laet primeding Federal Census and the aounty offlalals OS said oouaty are oompensated on M annual salary basis. IQIvarro county has an Offlaers' Salary Fund as provided by Section 4, aupra.
In vimi ol the foregoing statutes, you are reapeat- fully adviwsd that It 1s th8 opinion of thin departmemt that after all salaries and authorized 6xpenses lnourrsd against *3 E. Y. Cunningham, Pago 3 lionorable
the Offlosrs~ Salary Fund Sor e&id year have bean paid, it tim coaslls*loA6ra ’ oourt IS legal for to traMf6P any monI6s rem8Inlng in said Fund to the General Fund of the Oounty at the end of the flscrl y~r.
Trusting that the foregoing fully anmmra your ln- qulry, ve are