OFFICE OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL OF TEXAS
AUSTIN
GROVER SELLERS
AITORNEY GENERAL
Eonorablc:C. B.'Cavness
State Aud$tor
Auatln 11, Texas
. oplnlon no. o-7397
D4fr J6r. Oavness:
Bet Liability of the Prison
for payment 0
expenses.
We hav4 your rbqrreat for an op
captioned subjeot matter, aa follows:
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.* be paid Quiz OS
orwageabepaidfrom
03-44S'in such prison
livestook or farmIw -
sltat4a, of oours4, a oollstruation
at appropriation for th4 mmbs
lng a.8 f ollcwa t
the purpoas of sffioien4g and 400noti4ti1y
sing sUpplies and materIala necesssrg ier .m4~
O~rattOtl oad maintensaa4 Of th4,~iSOn~ f3pSt4=*8
shoe shop, print chop, garment faotorg, textile n&XL, ~.,
sugar mill., canning pla% agrlcultW?al and lly48tO4k
pro&Pam, lic4n44 plate plant, brick plant, tannery,
and any other industrg of th4 Prison System, and for
Eon. 0. HI. Oavnees, page 2
the prooeaalng, paokaglng sad distributing the
gooda prodwed by the Prison Industries there
ie hereby reapproprlsted for saah ar of the
biennium b6glnnlng Septeniber 1, 19 E , the Prison
Indu8trlal Rsvolving Fund of Fifty Thousand($50,000.00)
Dollars areated by Chapter 40 (H. B. 781, Aats of the
Firat Oalled Session of the 42 th Legislature and de-
posited in eq'U& amounts In th4 Firat Bat$oIW%l Bank
and th4 Huntsville ICatlonal Bank In Hunt8vllle, !Cexae,
subjeot to 8nd with the benefits contemplafed in fihe
provisions of aaid Aat. The Prison Industrial Be-
volvlng Rrnd in the S&ate Trea8ury and ill deposlt8'
thereto during the bi6nnium beginning September 1,
3.9&, F appropriated for eaoh year of the biennium
and all withdrawale from the Pri8on Induatrldl -
'RsvolvLng +u!i In the State Treasury made in carrg-
ing out said Ohapter 403, aha3.lbe mad4 on eouahers
of the PrBop System signed by th4 tinera Manag4r
knd @di,toWof i&s Prilson blyst4m and apbroved by
the Bfsts Boa&l of Control and th4~Staeai~Uompt3oll6r.
khe.NnQ~o~&Mi&~ ~eeue.hirJ~wa3rants~I.npayment
of-sa$d wnaaher8, whsn properly slgiwd and approved,
aut 0r .sng monsy ,ia sa$d eedswy wx5unti;~~
:.y -.<
,’
3ion.0. H. Cavnese- page 3
w4 tru8t that what wo ha-m asid ytuYi6Iently
\ amwers your InqulrLee.
BY hwd)
Ooie Spear
Asaiatallt
OStMRwt
APFRovgDSEPT. 27, 1946
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