State Ex Rel. Lee v. Hartman

MOISE, Justice.

This is an original proceeding in mandamus wherein Relator seeks a determination of whether Respondent as director of the department of finance and administration, hereinafter referred to as department of finance is legally empowered to reduce the budget of the Oil and Gas Accounting Commission, hereinafter referred to as Commission, so as to provide for the expenditure of a lesser amount than was appropriated to the Commission for fiscal year 1961-62 in the General Appropriation Act passed by the 1961 legislature and duly approved by the Governor (Chap. 254, N.M.S.L.1961). It…