Eagerton v. Graves

FOSTER, Justice.

The question on this appeal is whether or not the provision in the General Appropriation Act of 1947, General Acts 1947, page 183, at page 197, for “Temporary Clerk Fund $3,500.00” is a limitation on the amount which may be expended under Title 55, section 175, Code, during the period of that Act — the two fiscal years ending respectively September 30, 1948 and September 30, 1949. There is no law which sets up a temporary clerk fund.

Title 55, section 175, Code of Alabama, is a very old statute, enacted in somewhat similar form in 1867, and retained in the several codes since…