Untitled Texas Attorney General Opinion ( 1943 )

OFFICE OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL OF TEXAS
AUSTIN
Honorable Re tbonrath;.
A.
County Auaitor
Cooke Uouaty
Galnesrille, Tsms
ee-a reoolred aad oare-
fully ooasidered by quote fron your re-
gusat as followat
Offloe OS Cooke
fees were plaoed to
the oredit o
hould be Oredited to
ula not find .a statute whloh def-
~0p0r ma t0 r008ire the areait
s have arison that appear to make
that some ohsage be made ia the msr
of handling r8OdptS iron these souroes, sad on this
sOCWWi I desire an opinion as to whether BtfXIO&-
rapher tees pad trial feea whsa aollooted should be
Pl%d to the oredlt or the General Fund or to the
Qffloer SaLoqr Fund. should your opinion hold that
these foes below to the Offioers Salary Fuad, thea
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should they be listed as ‘Trial’ fees, *Steaogra-
phers’ foes, or as oftioial fees of the Judge or
Justloe of the Poaos in whose Court suoh fees
origian to?
0. . . . n
It la oux opinion that trial i’ees oollooted under
Artlole 1074, Vernon’s
Annotated Texas Coda of Criminal Pro-
0t3awe, should be placed in the general runa of the oounty,
if not othamlse appropriated by the oomisslonere* oourt,
See opinions No, O-3975 and O-3435 of this department, 0opies
of wbioh are asolosad.
Article 2075, Vernon’s Annotated Texae Clvii Stat-
utes, provides:
*The olerks or all oourte having offiolal rs-
porters shall tax as ooats in eaoh oivil oasa where
~JI answer is filed, exoept suits to o0lls0t delln-
quent taxes, a stanographerts fee ot three dollars,
whioh shall be paid as other ooste in the oass
and paid by said olark, when oolleotsd, into the
;g;ral runas or the oounty in ~vnhiohsaid 00~1%
.”
It is our opinion that stenographerfa fees under
-*tiole 2075, supra, when oolleoted by the olerk, should be
iaid by the 010rk Lnt0 the general funa of the oatnty ln
ahhh the oourt sits.
Vary truly yours
%A. J. Fanning
Assie tant