OFFICE OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL OF TEXAS
AUSTIN
peer air:
Your request f
carefullyconnlderedby this e quo;e Prom your
requestaa followm
r 8n oyinnton,
r dtem 3fhll.e
i)2* aoynton
8 uutjagunoiir.
duo to e prcv:ous
uo to L&e sect that IL ln-
aiion or ~~o,ooo.i~oto eat&bi~iah
ental B,tatioaat Siephen F.
Austin Coflego, .hephmed to request .x&at1 make
this hurrkx'wlp LO Uaohlngcon, aa President of
Our Board of Regents.
"I acquiesced, ia apite of the fact thai
previous eng~cmenxi iXui to bo canceileii,end I
am glad to repoN. chat subsequently.ihiaappro-
prlatlon yas mde by our Uni$cd Scams Congrese,
lihkh will help in the rehabilitationof'wme oe
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thousando of ccrm of QUP East 'i'exe8
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loa&+usalcea through coiX sro2ion.
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Qy reason for br.U@.ng this to your
attention la that ng good Prlet?ld, Cowtmllcr
Worge g. Chcpheril, dbes i2ot tslleva the per
tiem ia applicable except in atWmda3ce at vegu-
law board meetings. MI?.J. II.vlnelp, Auditor
‘of step&an p. Auatdn College, who mole ne about
thia,~atatod that 'this%e th# first ocwmicn t&&L
the per diemof & board D)t?be??cn afficlal buetiena
had been questioned In kie 22 years uith tha
college.*
Seation 6 of Article 2547, V~FA~‘IP hnnota%d Text18
Civil 3tatutas, raferrtig to the Board of Rcgmta of the state
FcochersGo~legca of i&i8 State, providoa as follonsr
"The board aball meek eech gcer at Austin,
on ths first Wonday ln &3.y,0P a.8soozkthemaf2er aa
praor.loabl.e,
for cuhatraneactionof buslnesn per-
taining to the affai?e OS tha State ucnrjsls;chools,
and at euch othor time end Places ae n 11~~jo19t.y
Of the menbars of the board deem nec~~eax+yfor I;he
WdXs~e of mild co2legeo. Each md cvczy mmber
of said bof33dshall, ~r3:cc?ivc fLvs dollara per day for
the time sp?,nCatGcndIr~ Lbe W2etigEY p~?OQ~bti f4r
in thfa law, md &I addition themto the mno~zt of
their traveling oxgcneoia,said cozpensa'~cbou to be
Paid to the soveml nzabex OP OK? lxmri? OUL 0: she
apprsgM.acLonTar the Gupi)oPtand ma%ni;enance of
the mid 3te.t~?each$rn* Col.l.sses aa the bow1 snsy
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