Klein v. Kinkead
Nevada Supreme Court
Appeal from the District Court of the Second Judicial District, Ormsby County. The facts appear in the opinion. I. The title of the act does not embrace, the subject of sections 11 and 12. The act embraces- more than one subject. Neither the purpose to make a state loan and public debt, nor to invest school moneys, is indicated by the title.
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Appeal from the District Court of the Second Judicial District, Ormsby County. The facts appear in the opinion. I. The title of the act does not embrace, the subject of sections 11 and 12. The act embraces- more than one subject. Neither the purpose to make a state loan and public debt, nor to invest school moneys, is indicated by the title. It may be that.members of the legislature who voted for the bill, as well as the people lured into security by its title, although willing to provide for the insane, would have found good and convincing objection to the contracting of a public debt, or…
1Opinion of the Court
*200By tlie Court,
Belknap, J.:
By an act passed at the last session of the legislature the respondents herein were, with others, created a board of commissioners for the care of the insane of this state. (Stats. 1881, 59.)
They are required by the act in question to cause to be erected upon land belonging to the state, near the town of Reno, an asylum of sufficient capacity for the care of one hundred and sixty patients. The act directs the time within which the building shall be completed, the material of which it shall be constructed, its maximum cost, and the manner in which contracts for its…
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