Chambers

This is an original application for a writ of mandate to compel the respondent, as state controller, to draw his warrant in favor of the petitioner for the sum of $2,299.30, in payment of the claim of said petitioner arising under an act of the legislature of 1915, entitled: “An act to provide for the establishment and maintenance of a bureau of tuberculosis under the direction of the state board of health; defining its powers and duties; providing for the granting of state aid to cities, counties, cities and counties and groups of counties for the support and care of persons afflicted with tuberculosis; making an appropriation therefor; and repealing certain acts of the legislature of the state of California.” (Stats. 1915, p. 1530.)

The first section of said act provides: “The state board of health shall maintain a bureau of tuberculosis for the complete and proper registration of all tuberculosis persons within the state; for supervision over all hospitals, dispensaries, sanatoria, farm colonies, and other institutions for tuberculosis, both public and private; for advising officers of the state penal and charitable institutions regarding the proper care of tuberculosis…