Your letter of !3eptkbar 13, 1941, rsquentlng an apinion of’ this dsportmnt on the abovn, etritlsd question reads aa follower

Tleaue advise 88 to rvhcthor or not Lt. is logal to pay for tyDearlters and permanent record books out of tho Courthouse end iTal1 Fund.?

.Seotion 9, Axlhcle 8 of tho State Constitution presorlbea the maxlmm mte of taxee for :-enoral ~ur~osoe, for roads anb brldqes, far juries end for perrnanaat lr,prove- manta, respectively* The noniem orlsin& from tnxt~.e lovied and oollected fe. each of the enuwratsd pur:Joooa are oon- rstitutlonal funds: ,and the Coromldsionors* Court hea no gowor to transfer monap from one fund to anothnr, end to. cxcend for ona Furpose Lox zonoy raleod ostenelbly Car enotk3r $%lxpoBe.

The hnaediate puur~aae of the r,roviaion is t.0 li-!it the r.aount of taxes that r?ay be rained for thfftne c?oneml rsepeotively; but it ie alro deet’ned to lnhlhit purpoeea, exaeeoive axpendlturee for any such jrur>ose, nnd to re,Juuire that ong and nll ~!onlos raised by taxation for my p.~rpoec ?$a11 be applied to thyt rcrticular purpose and to no &her. *2 (Comlasl:~noro * Court of Headernon County v. 3.mk.e, 232 3. 3. lJndor~o& v. Horrsrd, 94; Ault t. illll. Count.y, 116 S. r?. 359; 1 3. W. (ld) 750; Carroll v. YXllSaza, 202 S. ‘1. 504; ‘Texas Jurlaprudenoa, Vol. 11, p. 029.)

T!iB COttrtk\CUSO and j0S1 tucd 1~ tl:e ~?Tl?Eoont lm* >rove,mnt fv.nd, or et leaJet, o::netltutas a SortJo? thetreof, whloh IQ o. ooxtitotional fund.

In view of chu lorr~,oln,: outhoritlcs, yoLl r.rs reepsctfullp c?drlced thnt :t ia t&o o~lnlon of this Cepart- :itcat that tho Comir~nionorn 7 Court l$ne no la~zl authority to psy for t~!mmlt~nrs and j%I?nanont! record book8 out of l.he ilCK5Z imnt iZji?OVQ "Ujit fWld.

‘;rugtia,: th:it the foru..yln~ fully anvwtz-8 Bcur inquiry, 0 ire