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*1 OFFICE OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL OF TEXAS
AUSTIN *2 Honorable To-2 C. Kins, pa,vo 2
of $2,500.00 for sach moabar of the Board during each year of tho current biennium.
QpSour 0pirrPon is respectfully re- quested as follol!:s:
"1. Is the appropriation to be read in the light of the gcncral stztuts, so as to co~clud0 that the LeSLslature appropriated Or-~0 '.7UCil thC:xeOf LIS ?,Oy bs P.EC- $2,500.60, 6amry for the pnyrcknt Of 0 par dfcz~; or "2. Ecs there a valfii apprcp% tion of a sal%ry OS l/12 of $2,500 per sonth for w~oh member?"
It is uur opinion that the I,e&islctur~, by providing in the Ee~sr%&nl;a~l Appropriation Eill for Dill Zo. 427, 1&h Leg- the currsnt bienniu:3 (5mata islature) an nppropriation of $5?,5GO~ TOI’ CXIC~ Gf the three mombors of the BtEsLe l3oard of Bairdre~sors and inlxuded that this ~-,o;;ey should be CCWr~tOlG~i8tS, disbursed in uccorilnnc3 with the twxxz of Sc;cGion 7 of articl.6 73&b, Swmntt: Annotatc,d Penal Code, 1::hich YGU qUGt0 in your latter. The general Lav: on the cub- jcot vcould ordinarily prevail ever a occflicting pro- vision in the a~proprintlon bill. -2% d0 Cot, hGWaVC!r, believe that tbess is any conflfct bctwcn the lx;o. The general ridor to the Departxsntol Ap;briipriotkoJl Bill (at totto of jX$!.o I./+6 of I;ha Su~:~plems to the Scnsto Journal for June 13, 2339) contains the follox- ing provision:
"The approgriaticnn herein provided ore to ts oon:;trucd. as the llsxinram su3s to 33 a::prspriated, to and for the swer'~I. purposcr, rramod hercin'~ * *I1
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CabQlini., 11~5 morass 472, 170 S. V. 1036: