Marshall v. Dunn

Citations

• 69 Cal. 223
• 10 P. 399
• 1886 Cal. LEXIS 658

Syllabus

<p>Traveling Expenses of Surveyor-general and Attorney-general— Appropriation. —The act of March 9, 1883, making appropriations for the thirty-fifth and thirty-sixth fiscal years, appropriated one thousand dollars for the traveling expenses of the surveyor-general and attorney general when engaged in contests between the state and the United States as to public lands. The act further provided that not more than one half of any sum appropriated thereby should be expended during the thirty-fifth fiscal year. During that year, one half of the appropriation was exhausted in payment of such traveling expenses. Held, that the controller was not authorized to draw his warrant in payment of any further traveling expenses incurred by these officers during that period.</p>