*1 OFFICE OF THE AlTORNEY GENERAL OF TEXAS AUSTIN

Honorable Buford D, Battle

State nutitw

hm?Aa, Texas

lionorabls Butord D. Rattle, Faga S

*If your answer to ths above question da in the affirmative, th%a your anmu to thla further question would be halpful.

"Sfnoe Vhltehousc Ind%p%ndeht S%hool Cis- triot is a Rural .;ld Achool, would they be corn- gelled to show the r%venue to be received under the term of th% contract with Hur%k% a8 revenue lu their applloatlon for aid?* In order to make your queatlonr, appear mow oloarlr it may be well to set out furthor explanatory raotr obtained from a reading of the sgpl~cation and from verbal uonvuua- if&r& with you and vvith offlclalr of the

. Bo oontract bus bwn ma&o with Eureka Dlatriot upon whlah the raimburr@ment oi L Ton Dollare ($8X0.00) i8 sought. Tlw t%rm %ghoet le used ln the epplioatfon as i5Afeat~ that ii tho Ruroka Distrlot had not aontraatsd to the Whltohouse Matrlet lt vatid hare been neoassary to have o 19 ed a teachmr at a salary or Right U.uulred TM Dallarr 'PI # 0.00). On the theory that it there had been no oontraat b&wan the two Dirtrlctr, the B\rroka Mstrlot would hare employ84 som% toaohor at a salary of Right Eundred Ten Dollar8 (&lO,OO) and rould bare boon able to draw that amount iromtha Rural Aid AP opria- tlon, and that S%otion 15 of tb present Rural kid fz wtuth~~- izaa the B;ur%ka Mstrlot to transfer ruoh utu to the !&We- horue Diatrlot, the former Distrlot hao mad% applloation to b% paid such sum out of th% Rural did Appropriation nit& the xl.~~r;~tdalir%ring the 8-e upon rouolpt to the Whitehouse 1

. Saotfon 35 of Roure Bill O&3, 46th lagislaturo,'thr Rraal kid Appropriation Bill now in operatfon reads:

*SEC. 15. Transfer Of Rntize Dlstriat. On agro%ment of th.c Board of Truatoss of th% districts ooncarnrd or on patition signed by (I najorlty of the qualif isd voters of the aistriat and sub&at to the approval of the County aqer- intendsnt and Sate :;uparint%naent, the trustsea or 8 diStr.iGt Wiloh may be unablsl to maintain a satisfactory school may transfer its csntlre echo- lastlc cnrollm%nt, or any number of grades thereof, to a convenient echool of higher rank, and in euch *3 Bonoratle Burord D. Battle, I-age 3 svent, all or the fwla of a%rtriot, lnolua-

lng the State aid to which the dlotriot rauld otherwise be sotitled under t&e provlolons of this Aot, or such proportionate part thereof es may be necessary may be used in oarrying out 8ald fi@waeent .*