Van Diest v. Yakima County

Pursuant to the powers granted by Bern. Bev. Stat., §3997-6 [P. C. §1652-6], the county commissioners of Yakima county duly ordered the issuance of emergency current expense fund warrants in the amount of $26,602.53, to supplement the budget for the year 1934. In 1935, they duly ordered the issuance of similar warrants in the amount of $104,082.31, to supplement the budget for that year. Likewise, in 1935, they authorized the issuance of emergency old age pension warrants in the amount of $9,288.50.

The above-mentioned section of the statute authorizes the county commissioners to raise the…