Auditor General v. State Treasurer

This is an amicable application to the Court to obtain an interpretation of an important part of Article 14 of the Constitution.*

The question raised is whether that portion of the pledged specific taxes not required for interest on the educational funds, and which the treasury is to collect and bold for State indebtedness, and which bas now outgrown tbat indebtedness, is so controlled by the words of the Constitution that it must hereafter be allowed to keep accumulating in the treasury, not only until the whole debt is due in 1890, but until it is entirely extinguished, however remote the…