State ex rel. Moore v. Callvert

Citations

• 34 Wash. 58
• 74 P. 1018
• 1904 Wash. LEXIS 310

Syllabus

<p>State School Lands — Appropriation foe Use of University— Constitutionality — Legislative Policy — Construction of Public Grant. Laws of 1903, p. 137, § 1, and Laws 1893, p. 299, § 9, assigning and directing the selection of 100,000 acres of state lands for the support of the state university, are not unconstitutional on the theory that inasmuch as § 14 of the Enabling Act makes a special provision of 42,080 acres for the university, the intent was to exclude it from the benefits of § 1Y, granting 200,000 acres for “state, charitable, educational and reformatory institutions;” since no educational institution is excluded from the benefits of said grant, and the amount that may be appropriated therefrom to the use of any one institution is a question of public policy, to be determined exclusively by the legislature.</p>