This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1893 edition. Excerpt: ... reported? A. No, sir; I do not. I think though, it is somewhere in the seventies. Mr. Devlin: Since you have been asked your opinion on some matters of law; Mr. Langhorne, I will ask you if you consider that provision of the Constitution referring to the prohibition of the Legislature refunding any money has any application to moneys paid into one fund, and then the Legislature ordering it paid into another fund of the State Treasury? A. I do not think it has. Every Legislature passes laws refunding money. Now, as to the moneys that were paid into the Emigration Fund, collected by the State, there is a bill-pending now to pay that into the General Fund. That, I think, means repayment rather than refunding, under the Constitution. The Chairman: We desire to find out now when these moneys were paid to the Attorney-General, and then we want to find out whether he was justified in withholding them from the State Treasury until some Court decided to what fund it belonged, and we would like to examine Mr. Hart on that subject as a witness. General Barnes: Well, I do not think that Mr. Hart's position is one that entitles him to be called as a witness. He wants to do it, but his counsel have consulted about it, and we have objected, and do now object to his being called as a witness here for the prosecution in the form which it has taken. We have no feeling about it. It is simply a difference in the understanding of the nature of the investigation; that is all. General Barnes: We would like to have the findings and this decree put on file in this matter. The findings and decree are in the words and figures as follows, to wit: In the Superior Court of the City and County of San Francisco, State of California. The People ex rel. W. H. H. Hart, ..