State ex rel. Boyd v. Hastings

By the Court,

Dixon, C. J.

Mandamus to compel the respondent, as treasurer of the state, to pay to the relator the sum of forty dollars, which he claims to be due him as a per diem allowance for attendance as a member of the legislature. An alternative writ having been issued and served, the case now comes up on motion for a peremptory writ founded on an agreed statement of facts which may be stated as follows: The legislature of 1862, of which the relator was a member of the assembly, by joint resolution adopted on the 28th day of March, resolved that the two houses should adjourn on the 7th…