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462, J-at% OS the 47th Le,gislsture, nl Lam oi TCxas, 1941, page Ore, •~l!onthcrs; bnMng instm%tOr, tlgl3t3 or aimntbj instructor of coanotolo c. r 1' cii mnth; other Ins mctore I 2% cos x 148&-J per month; roontioml1 rrp;rioultura teacher not to exaefd $175.00 per 3iiont.h fnolurling Ptifmal Grant on 12 sdmths basksI prmidcd t.hreQ teachers msy be p&l not %XOCoc'jse: $lbb,Oo POP ~On~'----$8~,485.00 honorable 2. R. Wright - page 2

l under tho aboro two p rwlsions of tho law, onn we logally pay our rinting instructor more than $loco.co mnu3lly? t

Orcumrilp, an appropriation act may not ropoal, as10nd or rm ahatsoovor a Sonora1 law. But that prina&- pie has no application to your inquiry. house Dill no. 291 of the 47th Legtslature, liegxlar Session, (Oenoral and Specfal Lass of Texas 1941, p.. 813) prwldea:

*Ihe salaries of all State officers and all State employees, excbpt those Conetitution- al State offlwra ahoeo Sal&es are speciflcal- 17 pired by the Constitution and esccpt the sal- aries of the District Judges and other couponso- t&on of District Judges shall bon for the period boginaing Soptembor lr 1941, and endInS August 31, 1943, In such sum or amounts aa nay be pro- dded for by the Legislature in the general ap- bills. It Is spocificnlly doolared proprilztioo to bo ono.ot the Intents hereof that the togis- lature shall also flx the fusount of supplemental salarioe horsaitor, out of Court foes and rep ooipts, to be paid to the cloa'lcs snd other oui- ployeos of the Courts of Civil A pools, the Su- prome Court, and the Court of Cr fsilnal Appeals.*

SootIon 3 of the Act oxpreesly reponla all laws end parts of lake fixing the salaries of all state officers ad employees insofar as they arc in couf'lict. The effeot of house Dill So, 291, thorefore, wae to suspend Artfole ^[3205] for the 1iPo of tho Act -- that is, from Soptcmber 1, X941, to Augmt 31, 1943.

80 that, you aro ad~lsed that the Board may lan- fully pay the prlntln~ instructor compensation or salary not to oxooed $145.00 per zconth.

of course, ue do not weaa to advise that you may pay tho instruotor auy suzount uhatsoovor, In 8ddzf.tlon to the salary heretofore agreed upon, for services alroady roudcrti or Par services sihlch the onrployee has contract&M to perform for tho couqmnoatfon heretofore agreed upon. So0 Constitution, Artiole 3, Section 44. Thus, ir a aon- tionorable El B. tlrlght - page 3 has hea-etotore becn cntercd into for the semilees

tracrt of such instructor for a stipulate4 periti at n stlpu- lat.@ figure, the period oowxed by the contrwt, during the ooapansation of' the employee nay not be inoresse& rrborc the agreed figure.

vary truly yours ATTOHXEX GMEllAL 08 TTXAS OS-RR