Laman v. Smith

Carleton Harris, Chief Justice.

On December 14, 1970, the City Council of North Little Rock adopted ordinance 3862, such ordinance appropriating $18,600 per year to defray expenses of public relations activities of the mayor and city clerk of that city; $15,000 was appropriated for the use of the mayor and $3,600 for the use of the city clerk, the ordinance providing that the council had determined such amounts to be reasonable and justifiable, and directing the officials named to draw warrants upon the city treasury “in an amount not to exceed one-twelfth of the aforesaid appropriation…