State ex rel. Reed v. Jones

*453The opinion of the court was delivered by

Hoyt, J.

Respondent, as attorney general, was charged by an act of the legislature, or what purports to be such, with the duty of approving the bond of the relator as one of the board of state land commissioners provided for by said act. This duty he refused to perform, on the ground that what purported to be the act of the legislature was not in fact such, for the reason that the constitutional requirements had not been observed by the legislature in its passage. This proceeding is brought on the part of the relator to compel such action by respondent.

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