Board of Regents of State Soldiers' & Sailors' Monument v. Daily

By an act approved. March 3, 1887 (Acts 1887, p. 30), the General Assembly appropriated $200,000.00, “for the purpose of erecting a State Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Monument, said appropriation to be used in connection with such other funds as have already been, or may hereafter be, donated and contributed for said purpose.”

By an act approved March 7, 1891 (Acts 1891, p. 341), an additional appropriation of $30,000.00 was made for the same purpose; and, by the same act, there was likewise appropriated the sum of five mills upon each one hundred dollars worth of taxable property in the State, to…