Territory of New Mexico ex rel. Childrens Home Society v. Sargent

Citations

• 16 N.M. 276

Syllabus

<p>SYLLABUS.</p> <p>1. Laws 1909, Chapter 127, sec. 2, provides an appropriation of $5,000 to the Children’s Home Society, “for the purpose of providing a receiving home which shall be constructed, or obtained through the supervision of .said society and shall not be considered an appropriation for maintenance. And it is hereby specially understood that the said society shall at no time in the future call upon the Territory for any further appropriation of any kind or character. Laws 1909, Chapter 127, sec. 11, provides-: ‘Whenever any subsequent legislature shall fail to pass an appropriation act, the same appropriation made for the 61st and 62nd fiscal years are hereby extended for each and every fiscal year thereafter, uniese otherwise provided by law.” Held, that the appropriation in question was not a continuing one; that it was for a definite purpose and not for maintenance.</p>