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OFFICE.OF THE Al-TORN& GENERAL OF TEXAS
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oomittee to
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j -2% the aeue of Kauffman b, Parker, 99 3. Y$. (2d) 1074,
; ,Y,oxwt hod.beTom it a almilar c@stion to .&heone presented
,% par re@ast e I% Quote the follovrin[;lnnfgage Smm acid cas0a .
*The money n>en aolleated and placed in &e hands
of the-appellants (the cor&&ttee) beoaqe a trust $jxGi,
and oould-only be disbursed and paid out OS'provIdod by
statute; cczt3id.y it oould not be spent by the ohdir ..
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pan of the oxccutive comzltteo; thcsc ribp’ellants, (the
. . cotittse) To? sslarl& and servloco performed by the
aball%Wsn,nor oould it be spent for unmoessary expemes,
~batmust be spent for the purposes intended by the statute
‘end anOor the pxtxisions of the statutes aut.hor3.zinz'such
i expe~ditures.*l (Parenthesis ours)
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Eonoy bollaoted'under the pmvisions of ArtioLe 33100 to de-
; f.nytht3ox~enssa Of'th9 prirrcryoannOt,be spat roz itens got within .
;:,parvlrraof said Articl.0. Seer mall 0. Parker, 119 8. -6. (2d)
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IWaretinabloto find ary pixwisfoni iit& statuie allow- .. :
!:s the nedera of the oounty oxooutivo cotittee sny fees for attend- -
1-2a meet5.ag.ofsald,+%mi.ttee. ~Ybnr Question should.,t&r&ora~, be
~ssmrcd in the deCjativeand it is so Enstiered.
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John ‘Reeves
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