Superintendent of Public Instruction v. Auditor of Public Accounts
Court of Appeals of Kentucky
Case 31 — AGREED CASE APPEAL PROM FRANKLIN CIRCUIT COURT. No part of the common school fund can he used to pay any debt, obligation or demand of any kind whatsoever, except the salary of a qualified teacher of a common school, actually kept as required by law.
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Case 31 — AGREED CASE APPEAL PROM FRANKLIN CIRCUIT COURT. No part of the common school fund can he used to pay any debt, obligation or demand of any kind whatsoever, except the salary of a qualified teacher of a common school, actually kept as required by law. (Present Constitution of Ky., sec. 184; Constitution of 1850, art. 11, sec. 1; Collins v. Henderson,-11 Bush, 74; Common School Laws, sec. 2; Idem, see. 11.) 1. No part of the school fund can be properly appropriated by the legislature to the payment of any expenses connected with common schools, except the salary of a teacher. (Collins…
1Opinion of the Court
JUDGE PAYNTER
delivered the opinion of the court.
The question arises in this case from a difference of opinion between the Auditor of Public Accounts and the Super*181intendent of Public Instruction as to the proper interpretation of section 184, of the constitution, which reads as follows: “The bond of the Commonwealth issued in favor of the board of education for the sum of one million, three hundred and twenty-seven thousand dollars, shall constitute one bond of the Commonwealth in favor of the board of education, and this bond and seventy-three thousand, five hundred dollars of the stock in…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Collins v. HendersonCourt of Appeals of Kentucky · 1874
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