Hixon v. School District of Marion

Chas. T. Coleman, Special Chief Justice.

Act No. 271 of the Acts of 1933 creates an old age pension commission, composed of the Governor, the Auditor of State and the Treasurer of State, and appropriates $3,000,000 for old age pensions during the current biennium. To provide a fund for the payment of such pensions, the act requires the State Treasurer and the county treasurers to deduct one per cent, of the face value of all warrants paid by them, and deposit the amounts so deducted in the State treasury to the credit of the Old Age Pension Fund. The validity of the act, in so far as it levies…