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OFFICE OFYHE ATTORNEY GENERAL OFTEXAS
AUSTIN
Eonoreble Williee J. Lewson
soorotery to the oQverrlor
Austin, Texee
Deer sir:
In your letter
OS thle departmeat upon
a8 presented to the
Iadustriee for
rent I ia the emo
lhortege et said
la the euthoritq
eUdceeeed to the Gorernor by
ego Of Art8 end Iaduetrles
r werrentr in t&6 mai of
Proprlatlon made by the 46th
1,500 for the fi seal year beginning
8. August 31, 1940 for general
poe.8 Sor raid aoile or The letters
nstrwmnt w390t tbet the 8ff4,ooo.oo ie
a well, aonetruot a 6attling beefn, tower,
r puzuplng meahlnery. The appllcetlon
oonditioar hhlch have given rlar to the need
.00 erpondituro were unioreeeen et the the4
the appropriation for $1,500 wea made by the 46th Leglaleturr.
This Bt8tmt, however, is OontrediOtOd by eeoh of the two
lettere eddrdeeed by the Preeiaent of the Texas College of
Arts and Inauetrisr to the Govsrnor conaerning this seme mettar.
In t&r letter of YIey 15, 1940, these sentencee era found in the
lest paragraph!
“1 urgently request that thlr deilolenoY aP-
proprletlon be granted to meet this UnfCWeeeea
omergenor. ‘re hate bra aatiofp&ing this need
7S6
Hon. Wflllem T. Lewuon, Pega 2
SOT laverel year8 beoeuea ot the growing damende
of the college and the expenrlon ai the City lt-
8el.i. *
And in the letter of date July 8, lQi0, this pera-
graph i II roana:
‘This repueet wee made a8 en emarganoy maeaura
et the lent Legislature. We ware told to awelt tha
regular a??roprlatlon bill and it *aura be lnoluded.
Thlr ~cvnlea wee fulfllled, but failed to eabura
the Gcvernor*e e?proval. It 18, th4rafare as8en-
tlel, thet thase fun68 be lm@mdletely suphad in
orCar thet the intereats oi the state may-be beet
raned. a
An exemlnatlon of th elpproprletions made by the
46th Laglslatura to the Taxam Collage of Artr and Industries,
in 9. B. 255, Aets of the 46th L.&letur., Ra2ukr 3esrlOn,
rer.818 that en ltam 0i $lZ,lOO.OO was provided by t&a Lagle-
letura ror tha flroal year ending August 51, 1940, for “well,
tank and torar. n This item of enproprlatioa we8 vetoed by
the Governor.
You bra edvlsed that ,tha rltustloa pr’asanted herein
la ldantloe?. with fhosa dlscusead and rulad upq in our Opinion
NO. O-2118, eCdras8.d to the Ooraraor of Tttrar, aoonoernlng the
Soqthwaat State Teach-8 Collage end tke bul Ross Taeohare
College. In aaoh lnstaaoe, ‘II) ruled tbet there wae no “oasual
defloiencyw baoausa the situation oellinq for the expaaditura
of funds had not only arlsan at the tl..a that the La~leletura
wae in rerslon, bat hnC beau expressly oonsldered by lt, en
Item if ep?roprlatlon prow/dad, and suoh item ln aach lnstenoe
rar vetted. The mains 1s true with raferenoa to ths mettar
lmmadiataly under ooaeldaratlon.
You are therefore adrlsed that ln our oplnlon, tha
Dovernor aoes not tnre the euttorlty to approva tha lssuenoe
of the defioianoy wemV35t r4QU48t4be For a more detailed dls-
cua~lon of t’.:. prinoiplee involved, we refer you to OUF Opinion
Iuo. O-2118.