Betts

— The Veterans’ Finance Committee of 1943 (hereinafter referred to as “petitioner”) has petitioned this court for a writ of mandate to compel Bert A. Betts, as Treasurer of the State of California (hereinafter referred to as “respondent”), to cause notice of sale of $100,000,000 principal amount of bonds to be published and to cause said bonds to be prepared and sold, as directed by resolutions of petitioner. Respondent has filed a general demurrer to the petition.

Petitioner is an agency of the State of California created by section 991 of the Military and Veterans Code of this state.

The members of the agency are: Edmund G. Brown, Governor of the State of California; Alan Cranston, State Controller ; John E. Carr, Director of Finance; Joseph M. Farber, Director of Veterans Affairs; and respondent.

*399 Chronology

(1) The Legislature of the State of California, at its 1960 First Extraordinary Session, duly adopted a resolution entitled: “Assembly Constitutional Amendment No. 4 — A resolution to propose to the people of the State of California an amendment to the Constitution of the State, by adding to Article XVI thereof a new section to be numbered 21, relating to the…