Jones v. Theall
Nevada Supreme Court
This was an original application for mandamus, to this Court. The facts are stated in the opinion of the Court. Where the word “ session ” of the Legislature is used in the Constitution, it includes both general and special session, unless some qualifying words are used to confine it to one or the other.
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This was an original application for mandamus, to this Court. The facts are stated in the opinion of the Court. Where the word “ session ” of the Legislature is used in the Constitution, it includes both general and special session, unless some qualifying words are used to confine it to one or the other. If Sec. 35, Art. IV is not restrained by some other clause, the Secretary must return vetoed bills to the first session of the Legislature (general or special). In our view, Sec. 9, Art. V, of the Constitution confines legislative action in special sessions to subjects to which the Governor…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Lewis, J., Beatty, C. J.,
concurring.
This is an application by the relator, for a mandamus to compel the Treasurer of Storey County, [Virginia City] to pay certain warrants held by him, and which he claims are payable out of the Redemption Pund of the County [City] Treasury.
The relator bases his right to this writ entirely upon an Act of the Legislature, entitled “ An Act providing for the Payment of certain Indebtedness due certain parties from the City of Virginia,” which was passed by the State Legislature at its third session, vetoed by the Governor, and at a special session…
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