OFFICE OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL OF TEXAS
AUSTIN
Crlp&&sd ChildrenDltl~lon
VooationalFmhabilitationDlrialon
Stats Dapa~rtment
cb Eduoatlon
Austin, Texas
Att8ntlon: Ear.Jamse L. Tannhey
we have your r abore
qiwrtion. You a& .
on the dat
the demandnote
OS by maanu of the oertlfloate.
xi your division I.100 in ra0t paid out the sum of
4689.SO*for medloal servicerand hoapitalketionfor im.nloe
Crippled Children Dlvlslon, ga@o 8
and Ode11 Heal ren6arad by Dr. Mills at Baylor Hospits of
A: ! Dellam, TOM*,* and if you unduntand thst the treatmentren-
dered for these ohildrcm wi8 msde nooosmry by ~U~IIS which
wue oauaed by an uploslon, then in that evant, we me no
objection to your sl lng the outlflcsts and returning the
aam to #ebb & Webb Fn order that thay might enter the 8ame1
-in evideme to establish the amount of medlosl and~hospitali-
zation upenas rsnduad mommary by fesson of the injury
to t&r* ohildroa.
ArtlolaaS95j,Vunon*s Civil Statutes of Textm,
rhloh prseoribasthe duties of your dlvldon, mskes no pro-
vislon'for the reaorery of medloal.and hospitalinationlx-
penme furnl8hrd by your divieion, but we kaqu ot no reason
r4 a parent of obtldren who hate received sld fmn your dUi-
sion smy not voluntarilyregay ~tho tmount of ruoh erpendlture.
Seation 9 of wld Adi provides in partr
Vha state Departmentof Muoatlon Is au-
thorlrmd to reoeire &its and d@stfons for this
work. All QVta and don&lam tar orip$led ohlld-
ren*a work shall be paid into the StmtqPreaeury
and the ssme are hereby reappropriatedfor the
purposss or this Act."
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nhilo you would bar. ztorothod oi mforllLn6 n&y-
&t of theae lx p o nso by
s MrP.'G.Oi Heal, we fmo* no rason
why you dmld not aooept.klrdeMnd note in'the mm of
$689.60, ant3if, a8 and when ho paya the sama doposlt the
ronor in tha Ststa &asury to the propar fund aa indiantad
by $eo$lon 9 of ~rtiole 8695j quoted above.
we sre returnmingto you hmtwlth the #689.SO nOk
signed by 0. 0. Ioal.,the letter fra# Speamaan Webb to you,
dated Maroh 323,194E, and the osrtlfioate wbioh he has lrrlod
you to d&n.
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APPXOVED APFKL 8, 1943 ATTORNEY GZW?ZRALOF TEXAS
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