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Rational Guard and the National Guard Rs- SBTlW, or sn 0trt00r of the Crrioers Rs- serve Corps of the IkLted State8 or aa on- listed man in the Or&mized Reservei oi the Vnnitcd States; or retired ofrioers 0.f the -United States Army, llavkand Karins oorps and retired Warrant OrfIO8+Ps and retired enlisted men or the United States Aphy, Navy, and Zarine Corps irow holding in o~Jum#tiOa with such 0rric0 any othsr 0mc?.'or position or honor, trust or prorit, uhder thb state or the united Statea, or rram voting et any eleotlon; general, .speolal or pr5Illary 'in this state when otherwise qualiried. (Seation 40, Artlole 16, adopted eleotion Xovallber 8, 1932.)" Ii a persori 5.8 eleoted or appointed to if11 two inconsistent 0rrl0e8, his qualirloation 0r the seoond oper- ates in law as a resignation or the rirst otiias rorwhioh lie qualitied, whloh thereby beoomes vaaant, State vs. Rrinkerhofr, 66 Tex. Reports 45, 17 -'??109; Rx Parts Call, 2 cr. R, 497.

In the oase or Thorn8 et al vs, Abernathy County ISne Independent School Diatriot, 290 $W 152, the court held that oneperson muld not hold both orrices or school trustee and aldesman or the olty, even though the office of sahool trustee ~was not ah office or emolument, es the duties of the two orrices were lncaapatlble one to the other.

Artiole 2076, Revised Civil Statutes or Texan, provides for the eleotlon of rive county school trustees eleoted frasl the oount~, one or whom shall be eleoted rrom the OoWty at large by the qualiried voters or the oommon end CoasoIidated Independent sahool districts or the oounty and one fioin eaoh oowisstoner~s precinct by ths qualiried voters of each oomtissloner*s preainot, eto. Artiole 2677, Revised Civil Statutes or'Texas, provfdes that the eom- ~izsloners* court shall cmnvass the resulta of au& eleo- tion. iifiicle 2687, Revlsed,Cioil Statutes or Texas pm- vides that each county sohoolY.trustse shall be? paid three dollas pOx day, but not sxoeeding thirty-six dollars la any oae sp~ex, for the time spent in attending metlags, out of the Cemmal Pund or the oounty by warrant drawa OE order

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af the ocasalsaioners* court aftor approve1 of tke ac- aamt, properly sworn to, by ths president of t!m aounty sohool trustees. Article 3688, Revised Civil Statutes of Texas, providee that all appools irc%s the deolslon of the aounty auparintendent of publlo'instruction shall lie to th8 ooul)ty board ot sohool trustees. eta.

Articles 2725; 2808, 2741 2742b, 2622, 2226, 2S28, 2782, 2787, 2746a, 2677 and +Hor articles, Of the Revised Civil Statutes of '?exss dool rith thQ VtdOUE relations of the cce&sslonersv~corlrt tc the nohool sya- tans of ths aounty.

On Xay Oth, A. D. 1929, this department held in sn orinlon written by hon. Anthony Wtnlscnlao, Assls- tsnt Attoraey Ceneeel, that one person should not hold the orrices Or county oomla iouer and sohool Crudtee, as these offioes were lnoomp,.tible and ttit the aoosptanoa of the seoond oftlae :;a8 a.resIgnetioa of the first.