In your bitter ef aprll 12 If&c+ @Ia *tat* on t&d Few LO, Zm, t&t Otata Boatd 0) Cantto appzwmd tt trip r by SupdshnQmnt 6’4 .9. Nright of the Taxas school for the Dti to St. LOuis, Kisorntr:, to attond the cmferano~ of the H tlord Form! UB Doafnros and 6peeoh PathoLogy@ an& that the tf artptrollor@r teprVtment It not ~iq%wing the sxp8noo uccount ior thts trip, on the ground that it duoa not appear that tht Attorney Go~~ral htm approved this flip as being cm atute*s bu8inOZU.

The prmlrtm as to the 8pprovoll in a&anae of wt-, of-state trips & reprrsdiatlver cS tba rtate 66 being m tnlmt, 1s WBtdBsd in the do- atatr’r bussn8rr, by thsc de @at4 6pproprl6t1m in thr geaa?Pl rider appendti ha-do4 Pour attention-2t dfroct8d to the fact that the the- e"t" a roprtation bill; Emroe Bill Xoo 256, contsl~t the FiiTxg %l,t

“rruom.ng ISqxmm8* Iicllo 0P theee opproprl- 8tions may be urcb d:ar travellm out&e of the Btete of~exa~wavlthcut the fstlvmwVTitton oaualt ti the State DoerO of .Cetitrcll rzc$ot in a oinfry X‘tltim nOB~si~.Bt %BSSt6S a3 return- statsr In d ramped $BM es to laatitutlons. Othandse, the T

state Co~troll~ &all 8pply the mm na%*o to the apprwarl, read pt OS trmebg rxpensee of 011 06 aset of the elsstpo~ the su~rlatendents natltutlons as he appU08 to SU& l xpclOucr of r& T tluparinteazl3mt 8’ trips shall b8 the Gtate Lei)eCtQltl~ as authorbed bp the frO@d Of C~~t?ok” rovlsianofthe l l.eeuo AXI exd.nati~ofthlt to Logislature ha8 appro ,&otlon bill rovwls that t .Q efpr by Mp&#Mnd@irr from ths protrieion swpp l state co+m~llo~ &all wplpthe wsmo rules to the WP~ ad 08 8U hs appliorr tQ paylwlt o? trawling 8xpoBres of rll am1 mh expenrer of the &at& MptrrbWit8. 1 18 libdm T ohmd that it is rpoulrlcull.y ProoiQsdt

ash C&8. 'J!* cartaar - Pa&o 2

"SupeClnteaadQIt6' trips shall bo as author- l&&d by the hard of Cmtr&.*

YOU a.ro therefOr a~~s6d that by virtue of the pro- tislm OS the 6ltra06~ Ml1 above guotod, lt it a:t neoaw aary that advance o~init~ OL' the Attommy Gcrmal, that Such a trip 1s on statc~s bu61nas61 bc obt&aed ln rcspoct to mti- of-state trips by ruper%ntendentr of the clccmoqmry lnetlttl- tions of this mite, On the omtrary, this act coatcsPplates that tho Board of Control rather than the ittorncy Goner 6ha gi~0 it6 peY8tia tarftt6n t0fi~nt t0 the t3dbg 0f 8~0 atl % aut-oi-state trip*

It lst of aourw not the lntontlon of thf.~f.igm ~oamtcs ths view that the Bosrd of C&ml

uhere t % superintanlirntcr w tri c WC m ctatelc burirusr. k‘c ho&! mere1 of eletmloqmry ~aEtltu Lens, ^[7] the a&mnoa vri P tan approval of this de nont to the 02 6uahatrlpl6n~4,rcqulred buttha thsedvamcwlttcn p"t

cmsmt ti the stat6 kd of ktrd ia rcqultcd. If la this oranycther sltuatlettof similar characterthe Comptroller should entertain srrl~~r donbtsastotho purpo~ of the lc-

for the trarmactlrm of #tata’s business, c may r dc~rtemt upmpnscnta- We do cd tMnrtuad that trd.l.erhasdeellnodto oppxwcthc&ooowt q~~#ti~!%Od Vh&br l tath 6 buuincsr w86 approve the aoocunt.#or

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ATTORXiX GEXESWL