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*1 OFFICE OFTHE ATTORNEY GENERALOFT- AUSTIN
Honorabls Oharlrs IL Bot&gan
Criminal Di&riot Attcmney
Mllrlln, T*xaE
.Bearsirt apltnion x0. o-392l
13~ St UL i.adlVidti .OUAU a tmo% O? land 108s thin 200 aerou and vallwd at 1.88 than #3,000- and th. W~u8ty~llae divides the same Fa half, oan auah laudown~ &ah hometed oration in both oountieB?
so are in rmoeipt of pour letter in w&lab you fom queet tho opiaian of thir dmrcslent upon thu question sot a& thoreln aB rollown
"St! en individual own0 a traob ef land low than 200 aoraa and VPluod at low than $3,000.00, and ts critided with a portion in -A- oounty and a p6rthn in -B- ooorhy, or in &her words the oounty lialr dltidem th e l me $n halt, can euoh f;rAtn¶g al&m htwaostaad oxee&Mon In both Saotion la of Artiole VXU o? the Conatltutlan of ~ Texas provides aa f0110rs;
"'i'hreo Thousand Dollara [$,,OOO.OO) of the assessed tkablo value ot al3. r?oridmo* homestoads aa now derlnad by law &mll be oxmpt tram all caxatlon rim all state purposoe; provided that thio oromptiorr.'~al.l not,be applloabl~ to tha% portion of the ad valomfa tares lotied ior ,-ate purpoaas remlttsd within those oountlecr or other polit1adl subdltiaions llcm reoeiving anY runlrslon of stato taroe, until the orp+ratrion of ouch psried of rends&an, unlees betoro the erpimtim of suoh period tho bwd or govarniag aOdY of a4 me 02 more of snqh oaunties or politloel wbdiri- afona &all have esrtifisd to the State CO5ptroUor *2 - - ATl!ORL?EY GENERAL
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