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Ws are of the opinion that the term *liberal con- '
struction' means to @vc th6 languags of a statutory
provision, freely and consoiously, its commonly, gener-
ally acoeptsd neaning, to the end that the noat oampre-
h6nsive application thereof may bs accorded xzithout do-
ing violsno to any of its terms."
Yeotion 8 of Article 10 or the R&ised civil Statutes
declares:
The rule of the aomakvn law that statutes in der0-
gationthereof shall be striotly construed shall have
no applioation to the Revised statutes; but the saia
statutes Shell oonatitutts the lava oi this Stat8 respwt-
ing the snbjeote to whioh they relate; and the provisions
thereof shall b8 liberally oonstruad with a view~to ef-
c8Ot thefr objects and to proRIde jUstbX.=
Row the statute we are construing is a oivil statute,
It auth0rizes the Commissioners* Court to furnish to ths resident
Distriot JUdg8~ “suitable ofriaes *****~necessary in th6 perform-
ante of their duties ***** in the diszrstion of th6 Commissionsrs*
court.*
'The term *Suitebl6 offia.es*in the dense used in the
statute nekuis Ike than bare walls or Spaoe., Yihen liberally ccm-
~straed aa it ahoald be it means OfficeS suitable in conuectiou
with the perforJ&ancs of th8 official-dutiss of the occupant. If
oould not be said that an ofrio was suitable for the officer if
it were not supplied with ,euah things as chairs, de&s,'heat;;
lights, ana t" like things necessary to the exigencies of the
situation. :,
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*8 are 0r the opinion that the Commlasioners!. 0oui.t;
would'be authorized, in itS~disW8tiOn, to provide a resident Dis-
triot.Judge with~a typewriter. It is netter or comsloii kn0wledge
that in~this day a typewriter to suah tin oPficer,is often neaessary
and, WOlB.8tim88~
almost indispensable.
Yours Y833' trtzly