Ke are pleased to aomply with your request for an oplnlon Srorn this departimnt upon the question of whether or not you may continue to re8eive your salary aa distriot after you shall have been induoted Into the United .attorney z 7 under the Seleotlve Senioe kot,of the National -a

It ie our opinion EhatSeotlon 33 of Artlttle XVI df the Constitution of Texas reaolras this question in the negative. Rreads as iollows8 The aooountlng otfioem ‘this State shall or

neither draw norpay a warmant upbn the Treasury ln~favor oi any pWwaon, for salary 02 ocmpema- tlon aa agent, ofrloer or appointaei ~$0 holds at the mme tima any other olfic,e or position of hanor, trust or proflt, under this State Or the United States, except as prescribed in b&is Conrtltutlon, Yrovlded, that this're$trlatQm 68 to the drawlng and paying of warrants upon the lpseasury Shall not apply to offloers ot the Ratio&al Guard oi TOxas, the Watlonal Gugrd Reserve, the Offlaers Beserve Corps of the Vhit,ed &tates, nor to enlisted the National Guard, the National Guard R ah& the Organized RemrYes of the,Unlted St nor to retired ofrloers the United StaWi Navy, and Marine COT 8, e.nd retired warrant offi-' oera and retired en1 sted *mm of the Unlted!Btates s

army, NaYy, and Marine Corps, (See. 35, Art. 16, adopted election Nov. Si 1952.)* *2 mmable Eomar Thornbarry, Page 2

Aa dlatrlot attorney your salary la paid by war- rdnta drawn upon the treasury cl the State of Texan. You a* an offloar of the Stata, Aa an induotoa in the United satos Army you lpi11 hold en Woffloa or position of honor, trust or profit under . . , . the United Stateam. And this awn though your position in the United Stats6 Army mmg be only that of a private.

Inoludad wlfhln the exooptlma protldad In Yaotion 3s of &rtlolo XVI of the Constitution is tha followlng~ *nor to anllated men of tha National Guard*. The lnolualon of thla olaealfIoatlon wlthin the exoeptiona damonatrabea that enllat- ad man are lnoludad wlthia the aategory ai any orfloar of tha Btate who holda ‘any othar offioe or oaltlon of honor, trust or profit, under this State ot the Un ted States*, P Othea’wlao lt would not hare bean neoeraary to deaerlba and inoludr an- lieted mm of the National Guard within the exoeptlona.

Appartalnlng to seotlon ES3 of Artlole XVI of the InIon No. O-333S by thla departnent oontaina caaatltut1oa, the tollowiag a tam&r ?a

*trm tha abo~m,.it.ia olear, without aseu- mcmt, that ualasa a mau falla within oao of the eioeptltma protided in the @eooISb amtenor tba Gamptrollar aannot Issue hia a warrant in oon- of ay apple ant by the State aub- elderatloa aequont to tho tlma he a enlletted ln the Army, i? whether aa an offloar a private." We hare asaura that you are not an Of'flOer or an- lieted mm in the National Guard OS Texas, the National Gum4 of the organls8d RoaerTea OS the United Ytataa.. Reaam4, Saa Carpontor fa. Shappald, 145 S. W. (2d) 562.

In 48 muoh as you inquire only ooaoernlng the re- oolring OS your salary, un&er the clreumatanoea deearlbed, wa have doamad it unnsaasaary to dlaousa the quastlon of a ra- oanoy fn your offlae, and other related questiona, whlah you brlofed in your letter{,

&noreble HoaPer Thornberry, Pago S

It Is therefore the opinion af this departmant

that the Aaoounting Offioora of thla afats are prohibited by the Constitution from drawing and paying a warrant for your salary as dlatrlot attorney while you are serving am an lnduotee In ths Unitad Stetaa irrmy.

We axpraaa our approolatlon for your brie upon

the quoationa involved.

Vary trW yours ATTORWES O&WRAL OF TKUS