Artiole e700, Berind civil Statutes of 198% xhloh 6ekmlne8 the anausl salary to be paid the CoUaty Buparlnteadsnt8, band on the 8oholastlo poplatlon of their rupeative eountlbs, oontains the following ralo- rant pxwinlous pertaining 60 the expensea or the County Superlntendentsr

Inmakingthe annual *2 Honorabh A. P. Prertuood, May es, 1939, Page Q

sohoole, the oounty sohool trustees shall el8o make an annual ellowanor out ot the State a.d county arell- able funds for mlary and expenses 0r the orrioe or the oountp superln- tendent, end the same ah~llbe pm- rated to the eohoola OaaIng under the supervision or the oounty sohool map- erlntendent . . .The oounty board of trustee6 may make auoh rurther prori- slon ea it deem neoe,saary ror orrloe and traveling 'expense8 ior the county maperlntendent and any aeslstant hs may hare; provided that erpenbiturea ror orrloe and traveling expenses ahall not exoeed three hundred dol- lars per mama, and the county board of trustees amy make 9rovlslon for the *aployment of a oompetent ataaist- ant ior the county superintendent who shall, %n addition to Us other du- ties, aot aa attendance orrioer; . . .* The ftetlaed Civil Statute8 or 1911, &W.ole Z9S8, hot8 Or 1907, oontalned the follOwi.ug provlalonr

-. . .that the county ruperintendent ahall be allowed eny sum not to ex- oeeQ One Hundred Dollars per year ror stsmpi,, 8tatlonary, expressage and prlntlng ta be paid by the Camnlaalon- em* Court out or the oounty general fund. . .”

&IO traveling experue wao thus allowed, and auoh expense of orfioe was rertrlotea to suoh olseslrlOatlons 89 rlmllar to the ltmms Hated.

By the Aot@ of 1920, Third Called Seaalon, Chapter 67, Legislature evidently seeing that this $100.00 per year xpeuee WM Inadequate, +d that the County superintenawt wan put to quite an expezise ln going frm oae ohool to another In hia oouuty, amended Art1014 E7SS Retimed CIrIl Statutes, 1911, making auoh expense prov aions read substantially the mama as nov i

appear in the Aot8 or 1923, our present Article 8700, Revised Civil Statutes, 192S. *3 .

Honorable A. P. ?restwood, May 83, 1939, Page b

It will be noted that sinoe the amendment aa oolltalned la Artlole Q700,. to the Aots of 1907, Artlol~ BIZR) Rmiaed Clrll Statutes, 1911, the aounty tntateea are d lreoted to m&e an annual allowanoe out 0r thm State and oounty available nulls for salary and expenses or orrio 0r tba County Superintendent. TboLegla- la&U% no doubt intended for the vmrds "expenaea"ot the offloeW to be siren a liberal and broad meaning. It does not appear, hover, that ths Loglelature intended to ~oontlne auoh srponse to traveling expense, or to re- atriot suoh expense to thoee ltuus formerly enumerated, l trlotly speakin fgf~e~4-;y~ht~ $Ggyswe stsmpe and the 1 the antlre'Aot to allow reaaoneble and neoia- aoastrue l ary expenses inaurre4 in the legal and proper~~oonbot of the ofrloe or County Superlntenden$. Thie TIOW i8 6upported also by the provlelon in the atatuta which liepits the amount of 8uoh expenditures made by the Cou&ty Superintendent, end with any aeellrtant., if any, whloh provides 9hat expenditurea for offloe and trav- ellng expenses shall not axoeed Three Hundred-%llara,* . . . (undemoor6 ours).

Our attention is also Oe.lled to the followlug *orda of the Oaptlon of the bill enaotea in 1980 at the Third Called Sea81on, Chapter 37, whioh reed:

"An Aot to ameod Xrtiole Q7SS8, . . . relating, 60 the nliwles or said OQUXI~J Superintendents of pub110 in- truotlon, lnoreaalng the aalariea or aald county Superlntendente, pm- tiding for QfriOe aad tmTeli!I& OX- pansem;...W

We think the language oontalned in Art1010 Q900 1s oloar as to the llmlt that 0811 be set aalde by the county trustees and expended by the County Superin- tend&,, whether suoh OOTem stationary aa stumps or xponmes of tmTo1, or uhether he has an assistant or notr Reading the Aot as b whole, lt is evident that tha pmrlalon llaltlng expenditurea to Three Hundred Dollar8 per mmuo fbr otfloe and travellng.expenaea, ap- plies to the term ~expeuaea or the orrloe or the county Superint.and.uW without dlstlngulkhlng batrrsen exponw laourred while tMTeliI@ and purely OfZioe expense,

It la, therefore, the oplnlon or this depart- meut that any mm, not to oxoeed Three Hundred Dollars *4 Honorable A. P. Prestuood, Xay 2.5, 1939, Page 4 per annum, ellowod ES xponaes under the prorlelona of Ar- tiole 8700, devised Civil Statutes, 1925, would oovmr and lnolude both tmTelbg and oirloe expense.

Trusting the ebOTe ammra your question, we re- Mill

Yours Tery truly BY APPROVED: