In re Internal Improvement Fund
Supreme Court of Colorado
The opinion is in response to the following communication and interrogatories from the governor, to which was attached senate bill No. 80 section 3 which reads as follows: “ Section 3. That for the purpose of constructing a cottage for the female patients of said asylum, there is hereby appropriated out of the internal improvement fund, the sum of twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000) which shall be the total amount to be expended in the construction of a cottage for the…
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The opinion is in response to the following communication and interrogatories from the governor, to which was attached senate bill No. 80 section 3 which reads as follows: “ Section 3. That for the purpose of constructing a cottage for the female patients of said asylum, there is hereby appropriated out of the internal improvement fund, the sum of twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000) which shall be the total amount to be expended in the construction of a cottage for the female patients by the Commissioners of the Insane Asylum.” “ To The Honorable The Supreme Court oe The State oe Colorado.…
1Per curiam
The questions submitted call for a definition of the words “ internal improvements ” as used in sec. 12 of the enabling act, being sec. 193, 1 Mills’ Ann. Stats., and which reads:
*249“ That five per centum of the proceeds of the sales of agricultural public lands lying within said state, which shall be sold by the United States subsequent to the admission of said state into the Union, after deducting all the expenses incident to the same, shall be paid to the said state for the purpose of making such internal improvements within such state as the legislature thereof may direct.”
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2Cases cited2 opinions
- Rippe v. BeckerSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1894
- In re Internal ImprovementsSupreme Court of Colorado · 1893
3Cited by3 opinions
- State Docks Commission v. BarnesSupreme Court of Alabama · 1932
- In re WisnerMontana Supreme Court · 1907
- No., Colorado Attorney General Reports1990