Riley

The petitioner is here seeking a writ of mandate to compel the respondent, as Controller of State, to draw his warrant for the sum of $50,000, appropriated by the act of June 5, 1923 (Stats. 1923, p. 645), for the purchase of lands and the erection of buildings for the College of Agriculture of the University of California. The respondent, who has refused to honor the demand of the Board of Regents of the University, has demurred to the -petition on general grounds, and advances the contentions that the act violates section 24, article IV of the state constitution, which provides ‘that every act shall embrace but one subject, which subject shall be expressed in the title, and is also violative of section 34 of the same article, which declares that no bill making an appropriation of money, except the budget bill, shall contain more than one item of appropriation, and that for a single and certain purpose to be therein expressed.

The act is entitled: “An Act to Provide Additional Land and Buildings for use in connection with the Department of Agriculture of the University of California at Berkeley, and making an Appropriation therefor.” By section 1, there is appropriated out of…