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*1 OFFICE OF THE ATTOM!EY t3.341~~~ OF TEES AUSTlN
Hon. Dart Foxd, page 2
one weelrlo time amount in dollnrs nnd cants to more than the snle value of food era othar oon- .moait5.os for hUir;n co:Wumotizi--~oi-k-bsuc~ li- v-- - cEn= ~~"XiGii TioursA bo erXEiaT~b%ur liking rcquirdC-GTpag any So0 thersfor, to a augplenontsry license authorizing him to sell suoh'bcvaragcs durin& cny hour of nny dey. * 8 * n (Undorsooring ours).
After aaxeful rasasrob, f:ti nra unable to find nny 0nu3S in Toxss, Or out&33 Of Texas, construing the phreSe Vcod and other cor~oditios~~ for humcn consumption" BB to what co:~~oditica are icoludod within these tens.
It isour opinion that tha conatruotion given to phrase by the Liquor Control noerd, according to this your letter, 5.~3 correct; nnmely, that the phrrrrje includes only thoce oo?&zoditios whioh er? tuken into the hum= syetcm for intarnal consumption. This oomtruction WOUlil, or oouxsB, exoludo cucS comoiSitioa :I.!8 oifprf3, oigorottos, tobAaco, OhoiVing gum, Cto., moationed by you.
Ao to your Ssoond question, it will be observed from a reading of the atstute , that there era no cords or terms employed in the str;tuto whloh in onyuiso re- striot the quotud provioton to me&n-the oonsuzaation~ of such ooi.zo.dities 011 the prar?iSes whore sold. There is no embiguity or uncsrtainty in the stutute,; it is sua- ccptible of but one oonstruotion in this pSrt,iculcrr
Further, the tann %onsur,ptioni~ does not require an ir~?edbcto destruction, In tile CEDO Of 6ThT3 V, TIOFS:fI OIL snd l?XKr3\'X~ co., by th* Cosjniasion of J@peals of TOXRS, 298 S. Y/. 009, 072, the Court conotruod G stc:tute imposir~ a tcr on gnoolina Sold “for conmmption Athin t5is wxto”. , fn 3.+x op!i3ion’, tha Court acid: ~conSu2~1~ or ~constna?ti.on~, %it the km, 600s not clwnys imply cn inxdinte deotruction
or teetin& up*; it Roy os well, end often does, coA,s3~lnte the ultimate use to d~ioh c\ll inter- msdlnto Or!BS lecil."
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