Cope v. Childers, State Auditor

“Money” in the amount of $30,000, forming a part of a sum a little less than a million dollars, is to be “paid out of the treasury of the State ... in pursuance of” a gubernatorial allocation, which, alone and exclusively, does now for the first time distinctly specify the sum (allocated) and the object to which it is to be applied.

It may be noted that words, clauses, and phrases of article 5, sec. 55, Constitution of Oklahoma, have been paraphrased in the preceding paragraph and that the constitutional provision prohibits all expenditures from the State Treasury except in pursuance of an…