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OFFICE OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL OF TEXAS
AUSTIN
GROVERSELLERS
ATTORNEY OENCRAL
HGB.c. c. 018eB
county kttorlmy
:wlislercounty
Kermit, Tax88
Dear Sir:
d.^. aalarler br nanei canty
:, at an
0rti0OrO fox>945
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11s inor@ase over
,’ ,,I above maximum allored
euah ot?Iorrs on Awust
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To have r&hod your rseent rrqurrt ior an opinion,
from whloh we pUgtO ga idlO~S1 Y.- %.:\,
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-The pertlaulsr quastlon PfhesIre to hare
enswere is based upm the folio-4ng faOta:
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“(1) That the Coaalssloners’ Court of Wnkler
Countf, Texaa>;has pareed at itr Jmuary regular
,terwan order putting all oi the oounty and pre-
~‘-alaot oiiloiala On a- salary bar16 iOr the yam 1945.
m(2).-Thst thr population OS Wnkler County
eoeordlng to the 1940 Federal Consu8 la 6,141;
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.\ ‘(3) I~‘1944 tta approved tax roll waa In the
sum OS ‘2&819,098.
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Van the CommissIonera * Court oi v;lnkler County,
‘Texas, proooedlng under Article 3912(e), 7eo. 15,
pay to the oounty judge, the sheriff, the tax ssaeasor-
oolleotor, the county and dlatrlot Olerk, end the
county attorney the eleven per cent inorease in 0018~
penaation ror the year i91*5?”
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Hon. 0. 1. Olsen, ~sge 2
ceatlon 15 a? Artlole 3912a. V. A. C. S., reeds,
In part, as r0ii0w8:
ma CommlssIonersl Court in or>ustIes having a
population o? less than twenty thousand (20,000) In-
habitanta, eooording to the last preoedlog Federal
Census at thr iirst regular meting In January of
esoh oalondar yesr, mey pssa en order provadlng ?or
oompensstIon of 811 county and preolnot offloers on
a salary basis. The Conmissioners Court In eaoh or
such counties ia hereby authorized, nnd it shall be
its duty, to fix the salaries o? Crlmlnal District
Attorneys. In the event suah Court pssses suoh order
they shell peg to eaoh o? said Dlstrlot and County
o??Ioers In money an annual sslary in twelve (12)
equel installments o? not less than the total sum
earned SB compensation by said otflcer In hie said
ofriolsl ospaolty ?or the fiscal year or 1935 end
not more than the maximum allowed suoh oiflcer under
laws existing August 24th. 1935, Snd not more than
the maximum amount allowed such officer under laws
existing August 24, 1335, provided, thst in counties
having a populstIon o? leS3 than twenty thousand
(20,000) Inhabitants, according to the lost preoeding
Federal Census, and having an assessed valustlon In
exoess o? Ten Million (~lO,OCO,OOO.OO) Dollars acoord-
lng to the last praacding approved tsx roll o? ouoh
county the maximum amount allowed suoh o??ioera as
salerles may be Increased one (1%) per ocnt ?or esah
One Killion (~1,000,000.00) Dollars valuation, or
freotlonal part thereof, In exoess of said Ten !.‘Il.lion
(~10,000,000.00) 3ollsrs veluatlon over end above the
~~?xlrr.urn amount allowed suoh of?Ioers under laws exlst-
Inc; on August 2i+, 1735; provided, however, no salaries
covered by this rocticn shall exceed the sum o? Pour
Thousand Five Hundred (:.L,500.00) Dollprs reqardlass
of the percentage o? Increase in population and volue-
tion &nd provided ?urther that In all counties ?:avlng
a nopulation o? not leas than twenty thoi.Lsand and cne
(20,001) nnd not moro than tvdonty-?!ve thousand
(25,000), scoordin~ to tha last ?receding +dersl
Census, nn(i ahich has an assessed velustkn in axceas
or %ent.y-r?ve YillIon (‘25,000,5OO.C0) dollars HO-
corcii;ig to the lest preceoing al?nrovo~Z tox roll of
such oountles, the ccmty ju@?, rhcri??, county
attorney, ~sscs::or a& collector a? taxes, county
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Non. 0. c. Cloon, page 3
alork and dlatrlot dark, the marbum salary 18
hareby firad at Three Thousand Tovan fiundrad au8
Fifty (33,7!YJ.O0) Dollars. . . . .*
Under tho exproar authority ot the above atatuta,
your Ccamiaalonota~ Court may rix tha aalarloa of woh oifloera
ror the ansuln(y yaar ll$ over and above tha marlnum amount
ellowad such ortlcara under lows oxiatln# on August 24, 1935,
prorldad none of suoh aalar:ea shall axaaad tha sun of Four
Thousacd live Eundrad (@+,500.001 DollSrS ragardlaaa of tha
peraentage 0r lnoresae In population end valuation.
?e 0811 to your attention that tha population
breoket by xhloh the n?axinum salarlea ailowtd auuh orrloara
la fixed, la deterrainad by the Federal Canaua of 1930, but
t;le inoreaae or ciaximum salary allowed umhr Ceeo. 15 of lald
Art. 39120, aupra, lu dotim&;:cd by the last prooedlag Faders1
Census (19401, together with the hot preoadlng approved tax
roll (194k). me bellevo thla la fully axplelnad in our
O9lalon No. ~-5986, a oopy or whloh la horoto attaohed.
Trusting the above fully enawars your question, we
are
Your8 rorg truly,
R;t:rt