State ex rel. Thorpe v. Frazee

Citations

• 105 La. 250

Syllabus

<p>Syllabus.</p> <p>1. The State Auditor is prohibited from drawing warrants upon the State Treasurer except in pursuance of specific appropriations made by law, and unless the person demanding á warrant can show such an appropriation no warrant should be drawn, and no mandamus to compel its drawing should issue.</p> <p>2. Act No. 87 of 1900 authorizes the State printer to contract with a competent lawyer, with the approval of the members of this court, to edit and index the decisions of this court, fixes the compensation, per annum, of such lawyer, and determines the manner in which, and the fund from which, he shall be paid ; but the duration of the contract, to be thereafter made, is not fixed, and there is nothing in the language of the act to justify the supposition that the General Assembly was attempting to make a continuing appropriation, for an uncertain time, and of an uncertain amount. The act does not, therefore, violate any provision of the Constitution to which our attention has been called.</p>