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OFFICE OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL OF TEXAS
AUSTIN
Mr. S. 1. Cooper, P860 2
State of Toxaa to the Central .Colorado River per (!Wb) 0r all Stat0 Authority, fiity oont ad valoram taxoa oollaoted for general revacu~ and rr0s psraonn in purporos upon the property the County or cowman, inoluaing tb rouing stook belongIr;g to railmad ooxwanlea whloh shall bo aaoertained and apportioned as xw Tho taxes hereby Joaated provided by law.
shall ba uaod by thr said Central Colorado ror the purpoas OS oarrylng alver Authority the powers, duties aud fumtl~a conferred out upon a*x?h authority by tha Leglrlatura of this 3teta.”
seotlon 6 of tha Aot read8 In part as follaai "T&a .faot that the Coaetltutlon of the Stata of3axea required tha dsvalopmsnt and oonaervatfop or tha natural reaouzosa of tha and that a publio oala,aity State, SXlSt8 by reason of overflows snd aastru~tlot of jzopsrty by flooda upon tto Colorado Wlvor and it8 0r trlbuterlea, and that thr eonsarvatioa the flood waters of aaid river and ita tribu- ai11 prevent such oalamttiea; . . .I taries
Such questions oi oonetitutimality as ocourrad to us In rospeet to the valIdIty of this grant have been disousaed and dooldod by the &qmme Court of the State OS Texas In tha oases 0r Sraaos Lilver Coneervation & Reolaiaation i)lstriot, 91 s. V. (2d) 665, ar.d Earrls County Flood 3ntrol Distrlot v. Garald C. Siam, dooidtid, in eaoh OS whloh oaaea rocontly sImIlar @mta ware Surtafned by that oo;;rt. Upon the au- raspeot to the queatlonr thority of there dealsions, xith therein Involved, we are Iapelled to advise that the Act is constitutional.
H.R. Fairchild Assistant ATTORNEY GENERAL OF TEXAS