Nugent v. Arizona Improvement Co.

By an act of the legislative assembly of the Territory of Arizona, approved March 8, 1895', the governor and auditor of the Territory, together with one citizen to be appointed by the governor with the advice and- consent of the council, were constituted a board of control and given charge of all charitable, penal and reformatory institutions then existing or which might thereafter- be created in the Territory.

It .was provided by the ninth section of the act that the board of control, after qualifying and entering upon their duties, should have full control over the territorial insane asylum,…