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above as eup@mental mintsname shall revert to the rgenerel rovenua fund ot this State." This Department ruled in Opinion Fo. O-733 that the Legislature was unauthorized to appropriate money for the payment of dtflaisnoy warrants issued by the Mvernor In the amount of $75,000 for tha purpose of ereoting 8 bulldin on the campus or John Tarleton College.

In your letter you sug>ly the sdditlonal~~informa- tion that the oonstruatlon that wan placed on the aempus of John Tarleton College was not a new bUilding, but wau rather an additional unit to the Solence BuildinS of aald sohool.

In light of this additional lnfoxmatlon you have

rurniahea, we have again reooneldered the original proposi- tion as to tha validity or the daflolenoy warrants and have reaohed the oonoluslon that In aooordenoo with our opinion Ro. O-733, the Legislature was unautharlzed to appropriate money for the payment of euoh ddlolsnoy warrant8 imaued ln this oasb. ft 5s the opinion of thle Department that the Comptroller or Pub150 Aooount8 should not ooneider those sum8 ao appropristsd in arriving at the amount of ourrent ap- propriations set up a&not the general revermtr fund.

Youra very truly ATTORRRYQRNZRALOFTRXAS BY

Aselstunt BG~BBB

APPROVE~JUN 21, 1940