Vlraee adrlre me

r0und 1~ b00t

ug sxpenaes lnour- and oprratloa styled *BQrom of Vital Xealth, there appearr a dlrlslon Ststistlo8,a under uhloh VadOU8 ralart item8 are provided. et0 tboro provid- Rd l Xpll80 1tem8, other t!I8Sl for 88hriO8, ad, but at end of approprlatloo the Department OS Rmlth, appear VetiOU8 ltomr arailablo for expense8 of the Witlr8 D@Qatkaent Of Ha8lth. *2 U. A. Da-la, Pago 8.

Bon.

The Oeneral Rider to Departmental Appropriation Bill ~rOVid.8:

l (b) The appropriation8 herein provided ir. to b r OOIl8trU~d a8 Wrimm ppmprlatbd 8~8 to b.

to and the seiorel ptarpoaes named herein, aad th e aWUXIt8 M intended to oover aed 8hall oover th8 ntlre OOst Of the rerpootita it088 and the same rhall not be aup- plomented from any other 8ouMe; and, exoapt aa otherwire prodded, a0 other erpendlturer shall be made, nor shall any other obllgationr bo ln- ourr8d by any departash of thir State, . ..-

*lUO@pt a8 OthOrWlee provided, ihoneler, by Vtiua Of the prOti8iOn8 Of thi8 AOt, lta8 paid out oi fee8, noelpts, opeolal am fund8 or other fund8 tallable iOr \I80 by a do- partmoot It 10 tho lntentlon tho Leglala- espradlturei out OS rrld feo8, tar0 to ilmlt reoeiptr, rpeoi81 fund8 other allabla Sund8, to the parposer and la amount8 lfealzod here- in, and lt 18 ^[80] provided. Y, however, tbo mount ol the ieeL, rooelptr, apeolal or other arallablo fund8 herein referred to are more than 8UfflOieat pay the iteai8 herein deeignated to bb paid therefrom, tho department to whioh the 8aid tee8, r.eoslpt8, 8peOial fUnd8 or othor arai1ablo fund8 are appropriated may, if neo- e88ary t0 adequately pertom rUnOtiOn8 oi uald 8-0 8UOh department, UBO aay portion

plU8 feel, reoeiptr, speolal iPnd8 or dthor arall- able tundr,* by obtainlag the peralsaion of the Llmltatlon of Payment8 Board In the mannor pro- vided therein.

%?I0 ~rreOt.# the86 pr~i8iOn8'li8 t0 iut the. amount of money to be spent for pwtloular Item ior rhloh the b@8&tU?8 haa made 8mOif10 protlsfoa to tzlo amount therefor In the departmental appropriation bill, to deny the authority to.rupplemsat any prtloQlar Item for rhloh provlaion ha8 been made, froa any 8oUro0, and to llmlt the authority to the department to lnour any other expenditures to euoh addlflonal xpeadlture8 a8 are 'other- tire p~orldaP ior in the departmental appropriatloa bill.

The departmental appropriation bill, in reotioa 3 or tbo general rider, provide8 that,=ln th8 Went the *3 Boa. K. A. Datlr, Fag0 3. 8tatUtO8 Of the Stat0 Of Texas provide any 8WWlt8, that

fOO8 or rUn68 hereIn appropriated (are) be pald out 0s iooal or 8peOial fee8 or funds, that the oama 80 paid Out of raid looal or mpeolal teeo funds lnetead Of bo- lng paid out ot the Geaor81 Betenue T~nd.~ .(parenthetloal lnrrrtlon ourr). 8. 8.~613, however, doe8 not Oontmaplate ilnaaolag or iuoh rork~exolu8Irely iroza such rpeolal fund, but, in our oplnlon, 18 Intended t'o pmmIt.th8 p- plloatloa 0s 8peOial run6 t0mra the ooat operating thlr gmrrnmental tervIoe, with the deflolenoy, it any, to bo eupplled from the Goneral Yund. It r0iiowci that th8 8peOial tund 18 to be 8pplied pcr)msnt Of the in the departmntal @pproprlatlon bill Item8 provided for tho BUrOaU Of Vital 8tatietiO+ It I8 Only in tho teat that n.aotual rurplur exist8 in suob ruti, otor and above the 8um neoosnary t0 pey'8uOh items iOr the fIaOal year, that, with the pewIs8lon of the Llaita- tion Of Paymenta Board, xoe88 or rurplu8 ma$ bo u8ed for WO8884rf XJWK4888 Oi 8uOh Bureau, lqoludlng th0 U- ployment of ddltlonal help, full or part time.

TOUT8 very truly ATl'OElfEf GERBRAL O? TEXAS Jgi&$Ga BY B. 1. talrshlld li8818tMt APPRPRILD 0 COMMITXL

'ATTORNEY GJUiERAL Or' TSX4S %f&f-