Jordan

The petitioner, Veterans’ Welfare Board, prays for a writ of mandamus to compel the respondent to publish an act of the legislature known as the Veterans’ Welfare Bond Act of 1921 (Stats. 1921, p. 959), as required by section 17 of that act (Stats. 1921, pp. 959,- 966), as notice to the voters who are to vote on said bond issue. The ' respondent has refused to publish this statute on the ground that the same is unconstitutional and void. The act is entitled: “An Act to authorize the creation of a debt or debts, liability or liabilities, through the issuance and sale of state bonds, for the single object of creating a fund to carry on the operations of the veteran’s welfare board ... to provide ways and means, exclusive of loans, for the payment of interest of such debt or debts, liability or liabilities, as such interest falls due, and also for the payment and discharge-of the principal of such debt or debts, liability or liabilities, as such principal matures. ...” (Italics ours.)

Section 1 of the act provides: “For the.purpose of creating a fund to carry on the operations of the Veterans’ Welfare Board . . . the veterans’ welfare finance committee created by this act shall be…