State ex rel. Johnson v. Clausen

On Rehearing.

— A petition for a rehearing has been filed in this case, in which it is claimed that the court disregarded the provisions of § 4 of art. 8, of the state constitution, in awarding its writ of mandate. The section cited reads as follows:

“No moneys shall ever be paid out of the treasury of this state, or any of its funds, or any of the funds under its management, except in pursuance of an appropriation by law; nor unless such payment be made within two years from the first day of May next after the passage of such appropriation act, and every such law making a new appropriation, or…