*1 OFFICEOFTHEACTORNEY GENERALOFTEXAS AUSTIN Eoncr&ble B. T. valten county Audit or

8mith county Tyler, Texar

Dear Sir:

Tour rrrqueat ro aen reaelvoa ana osrcfully 6oniuiider.d by t we quota tma your xequQmt 88 f0llow6:

on, our CcuAty bar to help bup work mtiue0r, ana can- JLot that is set up, ro plot on which all The WPA will rur k the garden, as well ~IY tc 8, but each sahool m-t fu~?nirh of the expanee and buy the itans , fertilizer, *to., es set out above.

%inca the mahools are not in good finan- cial oonditioa gcsnemlly, they bare (?sked the County for asai8~Ace.”

Honorable 8. T. Waltere, Page 8

ArtlclO 2351, R. C. s., provideA: "ICaoh ooamleeionera* oourt ~hallr 0. . .

"11. ?rOrifle for the Aupport of paupem aAa such idiot8 ana itmddcr AA 0-0t Ad- mitted iAt0 the hmatic a8ylua, reAlde~8r of thelr county, who are unable to nupport them- AOlVO8. By the term re8iAent aa UBOQ herein, la meant a pereon who haa boon a bolu tldr inhabitant of the oountp not leAA tbAA rix IDOAthS and Of the State AOt 1088 t&A AA@ Y-.

nlhsA tha ~05i8miOAeX'A CoUrtA WOI’O Ax- preeely given the powor and duty to *prorIde Sor the Aup ort of p~upelm * by noaewary ir- to pwAre alothe$ ribh the authority plieatloo. t to a0 all the iAOideAtX%i thing8 nwaraary provide for their ~tipporC. Stat a8 the power to snot P oourthowe and jallsarrlaa with lt authority to aoquiro a buildlag site.

Yoore f. Alred, 277 8. W. 787. AA~ juAt a8 the power of gnensl oontrol ofor sil roaQ6, blgbmays, rerrlm em% briagecl, naouwrily lmpliea authority to oo~~truot a dniruga dltoh to protect Auoh r-8, brld@eA, an4 hi&i- wayr fro23 flood watera.:~ ::lXl Pare County 1.

&lam, eupm. See al.so, Texrell v. apark8, a. WY. 619.

*Authority to provldo food arnd olothlng ouch putrposer neoeesar%ly i~oluder tha power to p08aeu, atore and greaarve the same to that end. FUCthermore, it may be mire ~o~noalc~l and doelrable to dlatrlbuts Auoh Aom- modlties, rather than hate the rsaiplenta oone or send for the same. Powor to provide ruah food and oloth&a$ would lnalrda the powW TV deliver it, aad authority to aaquiro the nm- essary mean of dellvery muld foll,m.

HoWrable B. T. Vialterm, Page 3

Wbec Commiesloners* Courtis were burdsn- ea with the duty or woviaing support suoh persocs, they #ore given the sound dlssretlon of deternlnlag those whom they were required provide for under the terms OS the statute.

By neoessary implloetloA they aoqulred the power to es@oy such help as might be neoessary to properly alit out thoss entltlsd to mush rsller aAd to investigate and asaertaln the extent ana IUCOUAt Or thS AOOa.

"The mot that the Federal ~oternmeat pro- vldea the somodltles does cot, in our O~IA~OA, roAdor the authority of the Cfamml.sslon~rs~ Court of Hunt County any leas in the dlstribu- tion thereof that would true If the Gounty it eelf wore fUrnishlAg suah provisions, so far as the state laws wre aswmer~ed.,

Wi goes without ~aylry that the dl6omtloA resldiag la the Comlsslonern’ Courts in suah atters must be soundly exorolsod. If the m- alplents 0r suoh roll& am not so indigimt as to fall wlthln ths terms or the statute, the Cmmlssloners* Court n0ula bs uithoub sutborlty t0 do any of the thing8 you faqUlm about. . . .a

Ws enolose herewith a copy OS said opinion tar your 1cforisatlon.