Untitled Texas Attorney General Opinion

‘\: OFFICE OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL OF TEXAS AUSTIN QcaaIa0. Mwm AvrammwQL*- Eonor~blo &nort CulM County Attorney xl PM0 corrylty El Paso, Torrr mm 86 a baria rot Wing the oorreoted ;h oert~rioetror a .d born to them prior he marriage. otter of June et in with a birth orrtiiiostr trar by Chrrlo Allen and f20 an ille- g to le6ltinLst h OertlriOatO that her 18 white. The era married in Las 8 JOU will not. wan ity Regiwrr i6 requesting me r0r IIB on a# to the power to legltlmatize a ohild born of a oolored father and a white mother1 the la w lx- preasly prohibitingmarriage between auuohprraonr in thir State.= - Aftbr df8OWldllt3 this quartion with the writer Of our opinion No. o-2347 it was decided that the question pro- pounded in your letter was barioally the same erthet re- quested in the berore mentioned opinion. A oopy of thir o p inio n is attached end ma de l part or thlo reply. . ’ lionorabl. &neat Culnn, Page 8 The City Registrar as a rlnlatarl.l orricer is re- quired b yltatuto to preron dartsin mlnlaterlal rots. see Artlelo 4499, Berlrab Civil Statutes aa explained page 3 in attaohed opinion. Ye are not psaaing upon the legal efreot of the riling and aooeptanor of thl. oartitloate. sum00 it to say: “lou are not oono~rned 4th the leg.1 riiaOt8 of mioh prooedure as to thi lagltfmaop of the ohlld, its righ8 0r lnberitanoe, or other leg.1 rights whatsoever and we are not passing upon anr luoh question.* A. 0. Opinion Ilo. 0-8S49. You are thareion roapeotrully advised that the CltT Roeiatrar lhould loeept an& rile tb oertifioate .ooord- ing to the prooedure outlined in Artiolr 4417 bt the Be+iaed civil statutes 0r Texas. Very truly yours fBI:rw APPROVEDJUL 2, 1940 ATTORNE-5 GE:NERAL 01''I'3Xb.S -