In re Board of Capitol Commissioners
Supreme Court of Colorado
The opinion is in response to the following communication and interrogatory from the governor: To the Honorable, the Judiciary ) ,■ ■> ... ¿ of the Supreme Court. ¡ Quesfclon suWte . At a meeting of the board of capítol managers, held at the office of said board, on the 16th day of January, 1898, at which there were present Governor Davis H. Waite, chairman, Job A. Cooper, Otto Mears, Perry F. Crowell and Charles J. Hughes, Jr., members of said board; on motion of Hon. Job…
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The opinion is in response to the following communication and interrogatory from the governor: To the Honorable, the Judiciary ) ,■ ■> ... ¿ of the Supreme Court. ¡ Quesfclon suWte . At a meeting of the board of capítol managers, held at the office of said board, on the 16th day of January, 1898, at which there were present Governor Davis H. Waite, chairman, Job A. Cooper, Otto Mears, Perry F. Crowell and Charles J. Hughes, Jr., members of said board; on motion of Hon. Job A. Cooper the governor was requested to submit to the supreme court the question, as to whether or not the term of office…
1Per curiam
Upon a full and careful examination of the statutes to which our attention is called, touching the duties and office of the Board of Capitol Commissioners, we are clearly of the opinion that the term of office of the present board, as fixed and limited by sec. 1, Session Laws of 1889, page 360, continues not only until the entire completion and furnishing of the capítol building, but until the full acceptance of the same by the state. That the language of sec. 9 of the same act, specifying the time for the completion and furnishing of said building, was not intended by the legislature to…
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