People ex rel. Richardson v. Spruance

The petitioner, as “president of the Colorado State Society and Bureau of Horticulture,” seeks to compel the respondent, as state auditor, to draw a warrant upon the state treasurer for the sum of $1,000, for the use of said Horticultural Society. The authority upon which the petitioner predicates the duty of the auditor to act in the premises is based upon the act of March 8, 1883 (Sess. Laws 1883, p. 210), entitled “ An act to promote and encourage horticulture and forestry in the state of Colorado, and to establish a bureau of horticulture.”

The first section of the act declares “ That the…