Stevenson v. Colgan

This is an application for a writ of mandamus to be directed to the defendant as state con*650troller, commanding him to draw a warrant on the state treasurer for the sum of $125, to which amount petitioner claims' he is entitled by virtue of the provisions of an act of the legislature approved March 31, 1891. The act is entitled “An act for the relief of Jonathan D. Stevenson, and to appropriate money therefor,” and so far as necessary to be stated here, it is as follows: —

“Sec. 1. The sum of $125 per month, payable monthly, for the ¡period of twenty-one months, is hereby appropriated out of any…