State ex rel. Hart v. Clausen

Citations

• 117 Wash. 260
• 201 P. 30
• 1921 Wash. LEXIS 1051

Syllabus

<p>States (22, 25) — Public Debt — Soldiers’ Bonus Act — Issuance of Bonds — Authority of State Board — Statutes—Construction. Under art. 8, § 2, of the state constitution authorizing the incurring of indebtedness, without any limitation, for conditions arising out of war, and Laws 1920, Ex. Sess., ch. 1, §§ 6, 7, which appropriate a definite sum derivable from a sale of state bonds, to pay equalized compensation for services in the European war, and further provides that, in case such sum be insufficient to pay the compensation allowed, additional bonds be issued and sold for the purpose, a definite appropriation of public money! was made involving no delegation of legislative power, since the amount necessary is simply a mathematical proposition determinable from the public records.</p>