Payment from specified account.

- A warrant drawn by the Governor upon the State Treasurer (now director of the Office of Treasury and Fiscal Services) directing the latter to place the amount of such warrant "to the account of the school fund," is payable out of that fund as derived from the sources authorized by the constitution and the law; and it is not only the right but the duty of the State Treasurer (now director of the Office of Treasury and Fiscal Services) to so construe such a warrant. Park v. Candler, 113 Ga. 647, 39 S.E. 89 (1901).

Revocability of warrant.

- An executive warrant upon the treasury of the state, authorizing the payment of money in pursuance of an appropriation made by law, is not a contract nor in the nature of a contract, but is only a license or power, and is revocable so long as the payment which it warranted has not been made. Fletcher v. Renfroe, 56 Ga. 674 (1876).

If revocation cannot take place by the separate act of the Governor, it can take place by the joint act of the Governor and the General Assembly; and a resolution passed by both houses and approved by the Governor, instructing the State Treasurer (now director of the Office of Treasury and Fiscal Services) not to pay a warrant, is a virtual revocation. Fletcher v. Renfroe, 56 Ga. 674 (1876).

Cited in Gregory v. Hamilton, 215 Ga. 735, 113 S.E.2d 395 (1960); Maddox v. Fortson, 226 Ga. 71, 172 S.E.2d 595 (1970).

C.J.S.

- 81A C.J.S., States, §§ 80, 81.