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*1 OF THE AITORNEY GENERAL OF TEXAS OFFICE % AUSTIN
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Honorable Rouer P. Ralney, Realdent
The Unltarsity of Texas
Austin, Texas
Eear Sir8 opinion No. o-2962
Re: Ume of umxponded balance in total salaries l p p r c p riate4l to supplement itea appropriated for purchase of equipmeat. Your letter of Deoeuber 6, 19-M, requestr the opinion of this mtwnt upon the question vhethr an tutexpended balaaoo of $6.600.00 la the total appropriation for salaries uade by the Forty-sixth Legislature to the Unit- ersity of Texas, Medioal Bmauoh, for the ffsoaLyeu 1939-1880, vaa available for use during that fisoal year to supplement the $12+00~~ itea provided for the fiscal pm? 1939-1940 fo% *Clido and lrb&oy for cencu rerearch. . .~.ealarie8. operating eepeaees. and equiWeat, aad expended for additional eqnlpaant for the oamer allnio end laboaabow.
The fixnotion of an approprirrtioa ie to met apart a eutdn qm oi noaey to ..~bo.expe&ea .for ;. outah purpore. /.:. .a .a& :a~c.,.of.:~a~JPUIO*ltti:;;-:-;’ for one parpow may not be upeaded for amthe? .oad umeyt apprcpriated different purpose. Vs flnd no sathorlty ooaferred a-pea the Unirurdty apt Terae to expend ncneye appropriated for ssluiu to myplmsnt or WgBWt the aaouut appropriated for nuppliss or equipaent. ft is true that authority is given to supplomeat ra3artes under eortaia olrcumtancea, vith certain limita, and from certain fundr: but the authority to supplement Wier is not involved in your laquiry, aad we therefore do not dlscum it, for ycW letter makes it clear that you wore not confronted vith the question of supplermnting a salary,~but with the question of aupplementinp: the auouut- appropriated for the purchase of equlpueut and mpplies.
The fact that the Couptroller oarried the $12,000 item PII one MWt%nt upon hii bookn, or the faot that the item 18 listed in the appropriation bill. tith the other spsclflo salary items. does not affect the question. I
You do not ask, and we therefore axprers no opinion upon, the queetion whether the $6.600.00 unexpended balance in the total appropriation made for salaries to the Medioal Branch of the Onirersity of Texas Vas available for uee during the fisoal year 1939-40 to supnleuent a salary paid from the 1:12,000.00 iten prorided for EClinlc and 1nboratox’Y for canoar researoh. . . t~lariea, operating expenses, and eqnlment.N
Yours very truly ATTOW RTVW, OF TEKM BY (signed) Richard v. Fairchild. RMFS ,ov AX'ROVVD DRC 14, 1940
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