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Dear Secretary Davis:

On behalf of the Office of State Parks (OSP), Department of Culture, Recreation Tourism (CRT), you have requested the opinion of this Office as to the legality of two agreements entered into between OSP and the Dauzat family regarding the Fort De Russy State Historic Site (the Site). These agreements reserved various rights, discussed below, to the Dauzat family when they transferred their property to the State and to its ancestor in title. In your request letter, you note that the Commissioner of Administration has never consented to either of these agreements. For the…