*1 OFFICE OF l’HE ATTORNEY GENERAL OF TExA8 AUSTIN

Dear Sir: *2 ..,. ., .” Honorable % W.'Yanoy, County Auditor, Page 2

SMtion 19, Artals

statuter, u ammndod, provldu:

aProrlsioh8 of this 8eotlon chall apply to aid oontrol in l aah '&iunty in t&.State of Texa8 hWg ~~~tiO3.I fir 8X0088 Of OM hUdrod Wd

0) thousand Inhabitants, aooordlng

to the lash praosdin& Fodrral CBMUS."

Subseotlon ~(8) ot,Ssotioh 19 provfderr: "The Commi88lonor8~ ~bkrt of oaah oounty 8hal.l determine annually thq salary to be paid to the oounty treaaurar at a reanonable 8~18 not to sxooed Thr8e Thousand, Six Eundred (#S,SOO.OO Dollar8 per annum. * * * *

SIbaebtlon (i) of Se&ion 19, provides: Vhora &all bo crutd a fund dsr sash offi- 68s aifauted by the vrorlsions heraof to be kn mm a8 thw .* blary Fund .of aounty, Texa8' (h rt th title,ot the orilorr afloated and the nasi of tit. aounty) and suoti fund shall aob.apart rram all other oounty kept aoparate fund8 mxd 8hall ba hold and di8bur8ed for tha pu.r~oso.ot paying the 8a3.arref 8uoh ofthor, th8 l alarles of hi8 dqmtioa, amil8tant8, clork8, 8ton- oaxaphen, .and inrertigator8 who an authorired to drav a ialary tram said fund Imder the prori8lon8 of thin SMtion amd to par ‘authorbed and ap- prorod 8xpans.8 6f hl~ otflee. Such fund shall bo dopoaltad In the oounty daporrltoxy and shall be protwtad to tha 88ma extent, and dram the ea+a in- krqst, a8 other oounty funds., l!ho ColamirelonenQ court or each oounty arreimd by the provlslons of tM8 S8otian.at it8 rim regular meatLng in 3anu- ary of sauh aalendar year, may determine order m&d8 and entered in the minutes of said court, that all. Sees, ao8t8, aompelllratioh, salaries, srpensea, do., provided for in this Seotlon shall be pnld in- to and dram from the general fund of suoh oomty; in whloh event sash rererenue, in this SeQtiOn to a sal.ary fund shall bo read as and Interpreted to be 'General Fund'**

Honorable 2. vi, Yanoy, Oounty Auditor, Page S

Subseotion (k) of hotion 19 proviimr~r -0 offiosr rmo~lring a salary shall na0it0 any ex-offlolo oompewation from the oounty$ pro- vided, h~we?Or, the fhWd88iOMrfl' Court shall transfer from the &enar8~ fund of the oounty ta fq? offiO8PfJ' Salary FUd Of 8U0h OOunty auoh ~Z'und8 am my bo neo8smary to pay the salaries ,and other lqgally authorized olalms ehqrgeable against suoh fund when the nroneys deposited to the aredlt of such fund are inauffioisnt to mot the claims agrkinst it."

Seotion 1 of Artiols SQlZe, Vernon's Annotatad Civil Statutefl, reads (18 fOllOV8l

*iuo dletriot OffiOOr shell be paid by the Stat8 o? Texas any fees or &mls8loa for any aemlqe pe& ,foxned by hira@ not shall the State or eu~p ~aounty m to any oountf 0rri08r in any oounty aontaiaing a pop- ulation of twenty $houmand (IN,000 inhabitaatm or m&m aaoording to the .tiSt praoeding Federal OSMU~ any 108 dr 0omml08:ioh for any 88rvioo by bin perf0rned as SuOh offl.oer; provided, however, that the aLsma8aer Wlfi oolhotor Of tUe8 Shall OontinU. to +~oll.e~t and relii for ths benWit of the Qffiosra* Salary Bind or funds herrlnafter~~pmt#.dad for, all faes and ~ooamis- aicms whiah~he is ~authorlmd under law to aoll&t$ an& it shall~ be him duty to aooount for and to pay all such monlem -ITed by hial into the fuad or fWd8 araatod and provided for, under the prOV~8iOIIS Of thi8 that the provision8 of this Aet; provided’further, Seation shall not affeot tb8 paymnt of aoats in oiOil oa~as by ths State, but ail~8UOh costs &o pld Ball b8 aoooqnted for offioerm oolleoting the maw am they are mqulred under the provisions of this A& to fhOc3oUgt for fS88, Ot?I8Cd88iOn8 and sOt3tS OOl~Wtti rr0m private parties."