Your letter to ue doted hgrfl 6, 1943, propounded the r0il0wi~ q.clec5ti.n:

vtmt8 bng lm6r Lumber c0ap4my, or thie 00uey own8 eereral truuko whioh thel uee to heul lo@ to their till fro& tinbsr owned bf them over the dlffarent p~-t8 0r th0 00my. the luid thl6 They own roar-or tlaber is on end only own the timber on ethos tracts wblcb thep buy Srom different people ovex the oountf." "Can Texas Lens Leaf Lumber Coapany, a Corporation of the Ytatc of Texas. their truaks with Farm regleter Llcenee Instead oi Commerolal Llcenee under the abow alrcui?i!3tRnocref"

frr zos~onse to said latter our atiinistratl*e Psei6tRnt) Yx. S. C. Caeon mailed you copier of our Op5A~ons Hoe. O-3317, 0-33~1, and O-527, which we thought fully covered the C&0atlGsi of law involved in your situation.

In reply to Sr. CRSOII*II letter enaloelng the Oplnionlr abse referred to, w P3OeiYfbd YOUr 16ttsr Or api 12, 1943, stating that the lumber Wnipany 8till II

ifosotablo E. L. HInoon, Jr. pAge 2

ooatonded that it oould buy fern truok licenrw for ita tmeka. Ill. par Abttef ot kpril 12, you raqueot that wo epeelflo~Uy a~mer the tollowIng question:

*Can Y Lumber Compagaay, ukleh operatea their own trucks ror t&z yurposa QI hauling logs to their O*UL and for eela of tha lumber, and ior proobrslne Nell who om the tlrober, refristar their traoka with fara Iloam undor iirtlclo 667lk-E and Artlole 687so-6a.n Both of your lottorr 8tate that the Luabbr Co-9 hauls both timber groun 011 ito own luad and tlmbm puromed trua other8 CO its nil1 r0r prooer8lng.

In our Opin&oa Ho. W-827 Qated Aprlll7, 1.030, thir held that the bon6flt8 or artloles 667&p6a l eo ruou dbparkaent only to peratms transporting their own pro&ate end aot to thooo trur8portiog art10186 purohaeod Roar other*. In our Opinian lo. O-2201 thlr dopertint again oonstrued attic18 b69Seba fn whloh Opilrlon It citbd with spproial and puotad Iron our 0 l~lon Ho. O-627 and hold that QM tranqxwting oattlo ~~rohoood 01 Rp AAOthSS VIAE not OiItlttid to the LWAOritS Of oe$d 6rtiOlO. ,.,

Tha 47th LegIslaturo l aondod article 6675~~$o l ffeetlvo April No, lW, eo a8 to in~ludo %19tlbw in it8 within itr oiarririoation. our OpinIona naturAl akte* Boa. 0.589 and 04801, both of whloh conrtruod artlolo (ibT(k-ba were writton prior to the wndaont of oald artiule, and the readopted tba phrareelogy 'hia oiaa poultry,* oto, Lqislature thereby ffidmoing a legfdatire intont to adopt our aonotruotion of ulid IAA&uage.

hrtfole 687ba-2 hem ao applioetlon whotever to tka iaoto favolvrd hore. iouewa that our auwbr to four pubrrtlon ir rt

t&t a lumbar oomperq whiah haut8 tSnbor puroharod from other8 A# USA &S that sn>m dn ita 0m land to fta aiu ror mmo~sing ir not l ntltlod to the beaefito yrrrridod by artfole Ob Sa-ba.