Opinion of the Justices

To the Senate of Alabama

State Capitol

Montgomery, Alabama

Gentlemen:

Responding to your inquiry of May 26th, relative to the establishment of a War Emergency Council, under the provisions of House Bill No 66, we submit the following.:

We duly appreciate the constitutional requirement that all legislation is vested in the Legislature by sections 43 and 44 of the Constitution, and that this power cannot be delegated; also that no money shall be paid out of the State treasury except by an appropriation made by a law enacted by the Legislature, — § 72, Constitution; and this power cannot be delegated.