OFFICE OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL OF TEXAS
AUSTIN
Honorable To-2C. Kins, pa,vo2
of $2,500.00 for sach moabar of the Board
during each year of tho current biennium.
QpSour0pirrPon is respectfully re-
quested as follol!:s:
"1. Is the appropriation to be read
in the light of the gcncral stztuts, so as
to co~clud0 that the LeSLslature appropriated
$2,500.60, Or-~0 '.7UCil thC:xeOf LIS ?,Oy bs P.EC-
6amry for the pnyrckntOf 0 par dfcz~;or
"2. Ecs there a valfiiapprcp% tion
of a sal%ry OS l/12 of $2,500 per sonth
for w~oh member?"
It is uur opinion that the I,e&islctur~, by
providing in the Ee~sr%&nl;a~l AppropriationEill for
the currsnt bienniu:3 (5mata Dill Zo. 427, 1&h Leg-
islature)an nppropriationof $5?,5GO~ TOI’ CXIC~ Gf the
three mombors of the BtEsLel3oardof Bairdre~sors and
CCWr~tOlG~i8tS, inlxuded that this ~-,o;;ey should be
disbursed in uccorilnnc3 with the twxxz of Sc;cGion7
of articl.6 73&b, Swmntt: Annotatc,dPenal Code, 1::hich
YGU qUGt0 in your latter. The general Lav:on the cub-
jcot vcouldordinarilyprevail ever a occflictingpro-
vision in the a~proprintlonbill. -2%d0 Cot, hGWaVC!r,
believe that tbess is any conflfct bctwcn the lx;o.
The general ridor to the Departxsntol Ap;briipriotkoJl
Bill (at totto of jX$!.o I./+6 of I;ha Su~:~plems to the
Scnsto Journal for June 13, 2339) contains the follox-
ing provision:
"The approgriaticnnherein provided
ore to ts oon:;trucd.
as the llsxinram
su3s
to 33 a::prspriated,
to and for the swer'~I.
purposcr,rramodhercin'~* *I1
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11~5morass472, 170 S. V. 1036:
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