Untitled Texas Attorney General Opinion

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$cd Scams Congrese, lihkh will help in the rehabilitationof'wme oe _ .,, x%Tl i P 1 thousando of ccrm of QUP East 'i'exe8 Wnds loa&+usalcea through coiX sro2ion. 1. i ! Qy reason for br.U@.ng this to your attention la that ng good Prlet?ld, Cowtmllcr Worge g. Chcpheril, dbes i2ot tslleva the per tiem ia applicable except in atWmda3ce at vegu- law board meetings. MI?.J. II.vlnelp, Auditor ‘of step&an p. Auatdn College, who mole ne about thia,~atatod that 'this%e th# first ocwmicn t&&L the per diemof & board D)t?be??cn afficlal buetiena had been questioned In kie 22 years uith tha college.* Seation 6 of Article 2547, V~FA~‘IP hnnota%d Text18 Civil 3tatutas, raferrtig to the Board of Rcgmta of the state FcochersGo~legca of i&i8 State, providoa as follonsr "The board aball meek eech gcer at Austin, on ths first Wonday ln &3.y,0P a.8soozkthemaf2er aa praor.loabl.e, for cuhatraneactionof buslnesn per- taining to the affai?e OS tha State ucnrjsls;chools, and at euch othor time end Places ae n 11~~jo19t.y Of the menbars of the board deem nec~~eax+yfor I;he WdXs~e of mild co2legeo. Each md cvczy mmber of said bof33dshall, ~r3:cc?ivc fLvs dollara per day for the time sp?,nCatGcndIr~ Lbe W2etigEY p~?OQ~bti f4r in thfa law, md &I addition themto the mno~zt of their traveling oxgcneoia,said cozpensa'~cbou to be Paid to the soveml nzabex OP OK? lxmri? OUL 0: she apprsgM.acLonTar the Gupi)oPtand ma%ni;enance of the mid 3te.t~?each$rn* Col.l.sses aa the bow1 snsy dhxL," . 1