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Opinion No. 23-3685

Collection Attorney General Opinions and Advisory Letters
Date 03/28/1923
File Number 1923 Op. Att'y Gen. No. 23-3685

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Opinion No. 23-3685

March 28, 1923

BY: JOHN W. ARMSTRONG, Assistant Attorney General

TO: Requested by: Hon. Juan N. Vigil, State Auditor, Santa Fe, New Mexico.

No Special Appropriation is Necessary to Pay Salary of Special Assistant Bank Examiner.

OPINION

{*32} I understand the State Bank Examiner has appointed Joseph Grant as Special Assistant State Bank Examiner. As such, the latter is a State Officer and this statute provides that he shall receive a salary of $ 2,000.00 per annum. This provision constitutes a continuing appropriation for such officer under the rulings of our Supreme Court and the Special Assistant State Bank Examiner's salary be paid as that of other State Officers. "All such salaries and expenses" used further along in said section in certain clauses in connection with "temporary assistants or clerks" refers only to the salaries and expenses of such temporary assistants or clerks and not to the Special Assistant State Bank Examiner.

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