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OFFICE OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL OF TEXAS
AUSTIN
Mr. S. 1. Cooper, P860 2
State of Toxaa to the Central .Colorado River
Authority, fiity per oont (!Wb) 0r all Stat0
ad valoram taxoa oollaoted for general revacu~
purporos upon the property and rr0s psraonn in
the County or cowman, inoluaingtb rouing
stook belongIr;g to railmad ooxwanlea whloh
shall bo aaoertained and apportioned as xw
provided by law. Tho taxes hereby Joaated
shall ba uaod by thr said Central Colorado
alver Authority ror the purpoas OS oarrylng
out the powers, duties aud fumtl~a conferred
upon a*x?h authority by tha Leglrlatura of this
3teta.”
seotlon 6 of tha Aot read8 In part as follaai
"T&a .faotthat the Coaetltutlon of the
Stata of3axea required tha dsvalopmsnt and
oonaervatfop or tha natural reaouzosa of tha
State, and that a publio oala,aity SXlSt8 by
reason of overflows snd aastru~tlot of jzopsrty
by flooda upon tto Colorado Wlvor and it8
trlbuterlea, and that thr eonsarvatioa 0r
the flood waters of aaid river and ita tribu-
taries ai11 prevent such oalamttiea; . . .I
Such questions oi oonetitutimality as ocourrad to
us In rospeet to the valIdIty of this grant have been disousaed
and dooldod by the &qmme Court of the State OS Texas In tha
oases 0r Sraaos Lilver Coneervation & Reolaiaation i)lstriot,
91 s. V. (2d) 665, ar.d Earrls County Flood 3ntrol Distrlot
v. Garald C. Siam, rocontly dooidtid, in eaoh OS whloh oaaea
sImIlar @mta ware Surtafned by that oo;;rt. Upon the au-
thority of there dealsions, xith raspeot to the queatlonr
therein Involved, we are Iapelled to advise that the Act
is constitutional.
H.R. Fairchild
Assistant
ATTORNEY GENERAL OF TEXAS