State ex rel. Greenbaum v. Rhoades
Nevada Supreme Court
This ivas an original proceeding in this Court for a writ of mandamus to compel E. Rhoades, Treasurer of State, to pay a warrant drawn on the State School Fund.
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This ivas an original proceeding in this Court for a writ of mandamus to compel E. Rhoades, Treasurer of State, to pay a warrant drawn on the State School Fund. The warrant was for the sum of ten dollars and seventy-five cents, the price of certain stationery, etc., furnished the Register of the State Land Office for the use of his office in carrying into effect the “ Act to provide for the selection and sale of lands granted by the United States to the State of Nevada, approved April 2d, 1867.” The claim had been presented to the State Board of Examiners, and approved by them, and…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court,
Beatty, C. J.
This case was brought before us by petition for writ of mandamus to compel the Treasurer of State to pay a certain warrant drawn on and payable out of the school fund of the State. The only question raised is whether the seventeenth section of the Act of 1867, entitled “ An Act to provide for the selection and sale of land granted by the United States to the State of Nevada,” is constitutional. The Act is a long one, providing the mode and manner of selling the lands granted to this State by the General Government, the method of investing the proceeds, etc. Section…
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