Stratton v. Green

Citations

• 45 Cal. 149

Syllabus

<p>Authority of Controller to Draw Warrants. — The authority and duty of the Controller of State to draw a warrant upon the Treasurer, is limited to eases in which he is authorized to draw such warrant by some law which provides a specific appropriation for the payment of the warrant so drawn.</p> <p>Specific Appropriation.—A specific appropriation is an act by which a named sum of money has been set apart in the treasury and devoted to the payment of a particular demand.</p> <p>Fund.—The Fund upon which a warrant must be drawn must be one the amount of which is designated by law, and therefore capable of definitive exhaustion.</p> <p>Construction of Statute. — The seventeenth subdivision of section four hundred and thirty-three, Article YI, of the Political Code, repeals the provision of section six of the Act of 1869-70, in respect to the duty of the Controller to draw warrants in payment of salaries of the Tide Land Commissioners.</p>