State Ex Rel. State Capitol Committee v. Clausen

As everybody ¡mows, tbe United States government, by § 12 of tbe Enabling Act, gave to tbe state fifty sections of land “for the purpose of erecting public buildings at tbe capital of said state for legislative, executive and judicial purposes,” and that by § 17 of tbe same act it gave to tbe state “for public buildings at the state capital, in addition to tbe grant hereinbefore made for that purpose, one hundred thousand acres. . . . ” By appropriate legislative action, the state accepted tbe gift and bound itself to carry into effect its purposes. Section 1, art. 16, of tbe state…