Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1893-12-22

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and each went into operation on July Let
last and were approved at the following
dates:
Chap. l. Feb. %. Agricultural
college ........... .S55,0OO 90
Chap. 8. Feb. %. Normal sch'l
at Mayville. 30 600 90
Chap. %. Feb. g. State board of
agriculture ......... 5000 90
Chap. rs. March Is. Firemen's
association ......... 1900 90
Chap. rs. March 10. State exam
liner n dep, salary 1900 90
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Dividing this by two leaves an annual
appropriation of $44,8O0. To this add
for wolf bounty this year, $1,000, a total
of $47,S0O. In this we have omitted
definite appropriations that have been
paid in full, so as to cause less confusion
to the court, and estimates for expenses
in some cases that will accrue, and are
provided for in the appropriation. The
above appropriations aggregate annually
s4O6,550, or thereabouts, and in addition
to this the next legislature, guaged by
the last, will cost the further sum of
$GO,3l5.8O, to which should be yet added
the deficiency bills now on defendants
desk of S~75,494.81, and the $4,000 ex-
pected to be received this week that are
heretofore described.
Eighth-Defendant further states that
he is advised that Section 1872 of our
state constitution, by implication re-
pealed that much of our former territor-
ial law that authorized the then territor-
ial, now state auditor, to issue a warrant
and that since we have become a state
he has had no power as state auditor to
give a warrant to any one, except when
there was money in the state treasury
to meet it, and that the power to further
indebt the state in the sum of 100000,
was limited to debts to be made under
special laws for that purpose like ordi-
nary bonding acts whose special author
ity fer borrowing or indebting is given in
the act, and an annual tax sufficient to
pay the interest semi-annually, aid the
principal within thirty years within the
passage of such law, is also provided for
in the special law authorizing such indebt
edness to be made, and that as there is
no money now in the general fluid of our
state, said defendant cannot be required
to issue a warrant for any purpose to
any one.
Ninth-Defendant would further state
that there is no fund in the treasury to
meet the expense of converting the legis.
lature to modify or repeal any of the ap'
preparations that is made and that are
to be paid; he is advised that subject tc
the rules heretofore indicated it is his
duty to audit claims of the various in
situations in the order they are presented
to him duly verified, providing there ii
money in the general fund at the time
to meet them, and all other bills that car
accrue under annual appropriation laws
of date prior up to July LIST next, and
that if there is no money in the general
fund he should not issue a warrant fol
any purpose, not even salaries of state
officers or judges until there is, anG
therefore these he should give the prefer
ence in the date of presentation o.
vouchers for the same, and that after thai
he should in like manner honor vouchers
for debts incurred under the genera
statutory appropriations in the date O.
the act under which they aros', and dat.
of presentation of vouchers to defendan'
and so with each fund; and that whel
the 1st day of July next shall have beer
reached if the debt of the state shall no
have been reduced below it's fixed llml
of 100000 additional since we have as
sumed statehood that all claims thel
outstanding that shall have accrued
under annual appropriation laws viii
fall as utilities; and that on and afte
July 1st of next year a new book or pag'
will have to be opened OH the same rules
with expenditures that have been mad,
by or for the state on or since July l
1894; but that as to specific appropriation
made by our last legislature for a tern
OF two years, the whole two years .shal
be included together, and when its funt
is exhausted all claims then standing fol
the two years unpaid shall and will b.
void as claims against the state, ant
those that will be 10 unfortunate as tt
not be within the list that is entitled t
participate in the receipts of the treas
ury for that fiscal year or fiscal term ot
two years will have no claims against tn
state; and that the state legislature, unit
our present debt shall have been reduced
below the debt limit point, will have nj
power to validate these unpaid claims
that will accrue, and the legal adviser O
the state and this defendant would, i
the court feels at liberty, like i
to give some expression on this point
as it might a v many unpleasant suits
and delays and guide the boards Of some
of the institutions of the state as tt