Opinion of the Judges

At the adjourned January Term of court held on the 13th of March, 1877, the following communication was received from the officers of the Executive Department, which with the reply thereto is, at their request, published for the benefit of all concerned:

*567Lincoln, Nebraska, March 13, 1877.

To the Supreme Court of Nebraska:

We, the undersigned, would respectfully represent that much doubt and uncertainty exists in regard to the correct construction of the provisions of appropriation laws, passed by the eleventh session under the old constitution, in connection with the acts making appropriations…