I70 8re In reael OS r+wmt date wmri3J- in you raqwat. ou atftutioPsllity and La** 19gt4 (Art. oiuaitp of muf~5 97&d, v. A. E. c. ws;on OS the oariou8 propo5ttLona la tit0 cQneit~tutli?~llty OS said kot bar BL our oQLtsiaexatlon OS thi6 BDltttw*

ty ror w privete lx80 or labor or eorW3os ., hgr any orfioer or acp.couxt or t&a Cm- ELsalonsnurr* Court of any county 83al.l knowln&y um or pemalt to be used tha labor OX rrerolwm of any I)ernon whom Is pld or sorrloe for by. 6wh labor cauaty SW priest0 u6e or pr0ri.t shall be (gaL1t.g of 8 tribddaseanor; 0x33 daoler- 'Lag 6n oa0rtpnor.

490 *4 840 a. 8411, page 4

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As to whether the portion of the Aot whloh is In sonfom- +ity with the title oan stand is dependent upon the ob eot of the snd the manner -k?-whiah kl4w, the int4ntlOn Of th4 Leeialaturr, kthe unconstitutional portion4 affeot the reminder of the Act b(8ec 9 Ter. Jurl, Sea, 56 p. 473; State 1. Laredo Ioe co., ,# Tsx. 461, 73 S.‘w. 9511. 3h’here portion8 of an eat are and where 411 or the provisions Of the act are iunoonrtltutional ~~,4onneoted in subjeot matter and operating togetbr for the saae ;,purpose, or otharwise eo conneoted in eubjeot mstter in 8uch a $manner that it o4Mot be prcmuned that the Legislature would

&vo passed the one without the other, the whole act is void. <:;(8penoe V. Penohlet, 107 Ter. 443; Lewlu’ Sutherland Gtatutory :~‘OonstruOtlOn Seoond 68. Vol. 1, p. 6001 9 Tex. Jam., Sec. 56, ‘:,pp. 473-4, end oa4ee cited thereunder.

;z. ,. twhole, In the instant eituation, when the Aot is riewad an 4 that the purpose or the Aot wa8 to pro-

it is a4airQst [;i$de a penalty ior the private u4e of public property and other ~;$hings of value belonging to or paid for by the m&s, 4 county . The body OS the Aot contain4 proviefonr whioh t or niuniofpalfty b irr applioabls to t&l of the gen4ral olarsifioatione of publio ;offioers in thie State (State, oountg and mniolpal). Moreover, &411 of the above mntloned pubLio orfioora, whioh -are nubJest to $the proririonrr or the Constitution and hwe of this Stdte, 4x-e “by thir Aot, eubjeot to the seine penrlty for’urlng pub110 $:proparty for private prorit. Also we oall partloular attention ;ItO the following in Seotlon 5 of said Aotr lan&i4ge oontainejl

*The f4ot that there is no law providtig a

gWJSitg 6gOiSUSt the U00 Of ~7 fully 68 defliied in this b

8: emrgsnoy, . .* r < f;,The preoeding aeotione of. the Aot oontain provld.ocs wlth refer- ? enoe to the property or the State , oountlas and munloipallties, $ ‘?{a note r’urther that H. B. Xo. 80 contain6 no eeverabllity [z::Or savinga olauw, and we are unable to find any ind.ioetiOn that :~.the Lr3gislature would have enaot4d mme with the unoonetitution4l b: ~~ovieiona slimlnated.

u view or the nature and gcmeral. purpoas R. B, NO. 80, it lo our opinion that the Legislature intendml L!that the provisions thereof would be applioable as a whole end dl :#4Ot intend that they would be applioable Only t0 OoUnties, when

the portions of the Aot with rererenoe to the State snd mQisiPa1 ,tlss are unoonstltutlonal. *5 -.--- - --v-w . -.-- tharwin ong oonfilot ~fth

and G&782. &is insofar-aa the holdinaa