Warner v. Auditor General

This is an application for a mandamus to ■compel the respondent to issue warrants in favor of relators as members of the board of State auditors. The question involved is the constitutionality of Act No. 171 of the Public Acts of 1901. In considering the very important question involved, we have been greatly aided by briefs of exceptional ability by counsel on both sides of the case.

The act under consideration reads as follows:

“The several State officers constituting the board of State auditors shall be paid for the year nineteen hundred ■one, and annually thereafter, the sum of eighteen…