, yau stats that extbooko it boomma ns84ssrry ror f&Ion ta lneur a osrtakia unolrnt snd that yea dosIr tha opinion of 0 qusation whether the state mra AvaSlab3a Sob

cay be n48488ary 4 lnauxxed ftr th8 the gmvidea be the duty of the Btets an ta set aaide a aurrioisat tha said text- tax to proviM Sr44 use or ctliraren attendin$ the pub 1s of tbia stats; . . .* reads .a8 fa&- Rsvlsed C%~vil $tetutes, "1ch8 Stste BoJMI Ot Sdi~atlon to hereby authoriztsd and eapw6rQd. and it i8 nab4 ita duty to purohase boo&e rrosithe oentraotors OS in publio ~XWJ eohoole or this textbooks oaad Sate, dtnd to dfstribibpte th;he ~(fso witbout other *2 cost to the pu;;ils ottcndi~ &u&i school& .&i~thln ttfs Stclte in t.F.63 manner and upon the conditions he~elnafter set out.*

In thb Car&r61 Departmental Appropriation Bill of the Forty-sixth Laeislature ths La~lslaturs eoufht to mire for items of expenditure to be made by definita provieion the Textbook Divlslori of the Department of Education, out of the Avallabls school Fund, for euah admlnlatrstire 4x- pen64 es Is Involved in the purohase snd distribution of free textbooks. In so doing the lmglslature did not nske any provision for traveling arpeneso to be iaourred Sn connaotloo therewith. There belug no other provision of the Ccmstltutlon

lirnltin~ tb4 power 0r th Board or Eduaation with refer- tdbute text ^[66] books, suoh expeneer, traveling 4~04 to expmditures pur4h464 :~rau this fUAd to and dis- the &rant of power to the Ststo Board of Eduastlon, under the term tbs above-quoted ooustltut$oml provision *to set free said4 textbooks,” ^[4] the said tax 0r provide 6urfioi4nt smouut out to la but the grant of the power end the duty to appropriate 8ufflalent moneys out of the s &al fund r4r4rroa to ror To *QTOY ds= r travsling expenees. *supply* them. The ime textbooka. to vurnSsh* power and the duty to detemilar how auah money nrap be to Vurnisb- free textbooks carriea ulth it, neoeeaary inoldsnt, the power and the duty to .pro- ee a a40466ary vlda the funds neasssary to defray the travellrig expaasst, lncldent to ths distribution ol auab textbook&

Yihere, by the Conntltutlon, a gotier Is to be ever- bea by a psrticulnr orrioer or brsnoh of th4 state ~overnarent, the ex4roisa of that pawer Is dsnlsb, by to all others. It Is to be areraised alone lnpllcatlon, by, or unc?er the dlroction of, tbose to.whom the p4opl4, through their Constitution, have oonflded it. Elkat 'I. more, 67 Ter. 307; Ollleni v. mull, 58 Ter. 298; Wrks '0. %%58t, 102 %3X. 11, 111 8-B. %?6. Our GUprtliIIe Cmrt, in ass4 ti Aneriaan Book Compsny v. Marrs, SS3 S.W. 817, said, aoaoerninc: the above-quoted provisions Oi Artfole VII, Seotlon 3, of our Constitution, that %hls grmt of po=er 1s exclusiv4 sad leaves directly with ths Board the sole pawer and duty of determlnin(5 how nruch uoney my bs neaessary.*

The power and the. duty of d4te~ning and aettine aside iunds EUfrfChnt to -provide fraie textbook@ having *3 Hon. George I?. Sheppard, i%ge 3.

besn, by the Conctltutlon, exolusively vested in the Board of Xduoatlon, it may not b8 lmpalrod or defeated by le(:is- latlve or executive notion eeekin~ to limit lto ex8rols8 by pleoln~ restrictions on the amount to be expbnded Sor travetiw expennoo.

In the Departmental Approprfat 8n Bill tha Lsgialature ha5 atterapted to make an appropria t$- on.dT admlai8trative erpenoes neaeasary to prov%da rree'taxtbooka out ol the AVailable Sahool FUnd, whlah, by, redqon of.ltgrfa\lUre to provide travallnf expanaec for th% illstrlb&tin tjt taxtbooke, neoee8arilg lnvol+ed an unwarranted and unoon- stitutlonal invasion by the Leg.Mature or ths parer oon- fsrred upon the State Board of 'Zdu8atlon to provide s~f- tlolent m0neys for ths aocosnpliehment or suoh purposes. This power having been denied to it by the it8 attemptsd exeroiae is a nullity.

You are therefo're adVi88d thst in OUT opinion the State Board oi Zduaation may set aside oUt of the ~vvoil- able School Fund euah mount 8s will he auifloient to da- fray the traveling expenses neoa5sary to be inOUrr8d in the pUrCbae8 and dlstrfbutlon~ of free textbooks .to the sob001 ahlldrea of this State. Under the oonstltutional prorlsion referred to, it IS not only wlthln the prorlnoo State Board Bdueatioa 80 to do, but the Conatitu- tion srpresely makes it ita duty to do 80.

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