*1 OFFICE OF THE AmORNEY GENERAL OF TEXAS

AUSIIN

Your attention ls oellsd to the feat that the gene oral ap ropriation bill pe66sd by th6 46th L4~&l6lattu% made 00 prow ill ion for the oarryw out of the purposes end provl- sions of the act entitled Y?&ote Soil Conservation mt.* BoweTer, Eccse 9iU No. EC, finrslly yessed nnd adopt6d by the 46th L@slatura on the 11th duy ct ~iprllr 1939, provides a8 follows in Ssotlon l4a thhereof:

The several sums of smey herein epeolfled or 80 aRloh themor as may bo neoeo8ery, are hereby agproprlatad out oi any moneys in the State Trw- not othorwl80 e proprlatsd ror the eupport au6 ELI tenrmoe of the Ii tato Soil Conaarvatlon ?&oar6 for the two y6s.r period be&inning Sept. 1, 1939, end ending &ugust 3l, 1941."

Theroaftor is 8ot out the authorized erpendltureu to be allowsd in the furtherance of the dutler of the mu&are of the State Soil Conservation Board. Item Ro. 7 of t!m au- thorir;u6 erpemdlturus thareund~sr provides for hotel.8 and mals 'aotto exoaed 8330 per day per mmbor. Th6 sum oi #l!?so. was

appropriated for the year endln& nutpst 31, 1940, rot this item and a like mm tar the ysar eadlng a&ust 31 194L ram- gmph D of seotlon 4 or the sot defd&mted State doil ~Connarva- tbm Board prorid@ CL6 Solbw : *Paotumlea n suoh bwrtl shall be filled

foranunapired. T ormof ~Sglltt+ma, by the am116 8anner ia uNohthe retiriag mtmbtw u?re rcwQeot;lrcl4 sleated. Eleotlvo ~~aab6m3 or the board may rooelvm oaap8n6atlon tar their mm- viooa on the board, not to exceed the sum af $10. per diem for saeh d&y of aatu&l sorvioo rwtiemd, Para.gra?h P ot the saze osation of safd 80t provides BB follcws:

=* * + It shall hare authority to l.oOute its ofrloo at the point to be seleotcrd by the bcsrd.w Now themfore, it acroordingly fol.lOwS that the Of- floe or t&m State Soil Conssnatlon Bard ha@! been looatad b The sot OTrnt;lptt the boar ii said board ln the oity ot T huv$,tg provided that eaoh mem er of the Stat8, Soi(T COAX- snrgls*

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tlon Board ahall be entitled to erpensos, Including travel- ing expenses, neoeaserlly inaurred in the disohargs of their duties as me&m-s of the board, and a 6peoifIo ap~roprlatloa having been made urider Section 14a of suld aot for money to pay said trtmellng expenses and other expenses of the nmubers of eald Stats Soil Conservation Board, it Is aooordliqly the opM011 of this Deparlanaut aad pou my be 80 advised that vx, V. C. Ihrshall. a mmiber ot tbs State Soil Conservation Board, shall be entitled to reoalve expenses Inoludlng travellug ex- pemies, neoessarily inourred In the disahaqe of hle duties as a member of the boerd. It Is the further opinion of this Departmnt that the item3 of eupense Inquired sboutL;g&y, lunch tt the ljoaring Estel Ten~10, T6ftas, when made Sor this Iten doss no 4 exoeed the amount ~rov ded Sor ln "?I the appropriation under Eouse Bill Eo. 20 heretofore refer- red to, is e proper 6xpendIture and nhoulrf WJ allowed.

TrustIq that this satiafaotorlly anuw6rs your quos- tloa, we rmualn