The Arizona copper camp., 1919-02-08

VI WulCu
section % reads as follows:
GA sum of money sufficient to
carry out the provisions of this
act is hereby annually appro-
priated out of the general fund;
provided, however, that this sec-
ton shall not be effective after
June 80, 1919"
The above section quoted
would seem to meet the present
emergency and would seem to in
fer that the commission is hereby
empowered to meet the expenses
of any state institution, up to
June 80, 1919, should the amounts
set forth in the general appropria-
ton bill fail to carry any state
institution through to that time;
and thus avoid the use of state
certificates of Indebtedness.
Very respectfully,
(Signed) WILEY E. JONES,
Attorney General
"Under the license granted through
this broad and sweeping interpreta-
tion of the law by the attorney gen.
eral, the Commission of State Insti-
tutions felt privileged and did expend
without reservation, and transferred
money from one fund to another in
reckless disregard of the safeguards
which the legislature aimed to throw
around the several institutional funds
of the state.
"On January II, 1919, information
having come to my attention through
the presentation of warrants by the
state auditor, I refused to honor with
my signature $7,032.30 worth drawn
upon the deficit fund of the State In
dustrial School, and on January %,
1919, addressed to him the following
letter, feeling that the attorney gen.
erals oponion having served it's pur-
pose the facts should be marshalled
for presentation to your body:
EXECUTIVE OFFICE
January %, 1919.
My Dear Sir:
will you kindly furnish me at
your earliest convenience a de-
tailed report showing the bal
ances in the various depart
mental and institutional funds as
of date of December 81, 1918,
which show a deficit or which
you judge by your experience in
such matters, will shortly be in
that condition, so that 1 may
bring to the attention of the
legislature now in session the
facts necessary to request some
early action by it to the end that
present deficits of said depart
ments and institutions may be
remedied by emergency appro-
priations to meet the necessary
expenditures to the end Of the
fiscal year, June 80, 1919.
Sincerely Yours,
'THOS. E. CAMPBELL,
Governor.
Hon. Jesse Boyce, State Auditor,
Phoenix, Arizona
"In reply, on the same date I re-
ceived the following letter from the
state auditor:
Department of State Auditor and
Bank Comptroller, Phoenix,
Arizona.
January %, 1919.
Hon Thos. E. Campbell,
Governor of Arizona,
State House, Phoenix, Arizona.
My Dear Governor.
In reply to your letter of the
23rd inst, refer you to the report
of the state auditor, dated Janu-
ary Is, 1919, for the balances
available under date of December
81, 1918.
You now have in your posses
sion $7,032.3O worth of warrants
count of the State Industrial
School deficit. These were writ
ten under authority of chapter 80,
Laws of 1917, in accordance with
the opinion of the attorney gen
eral rendered January 20, 1918.
AT this date the following are
the balances in the following
funds:
Pioneers Home maintenance,
overdrawn $1,079.77.
Asylum for the Insane, balance
on hand (maintenance), $60.04
State Industrial School, balance
on hand (maintenance), $26170.
For your information no more
warrants will be written on the
general fund until such time as
you have countersigned those
you have on hand, and advise me