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Caption: Booklet - UI Charter of Freedom (1942)
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83 be committee! That the University of Illinois is an agency of the General Assembly and exclusively under its control charged with the performance of functions # delegated to it by the General Assembly and of the highest importance to the people of this State is settled law in this court; and the General Assembly has delegated control over this institution to no executive officer or body in this State other than the Board of Trustees which it has created. That an Attorney General is not immune from mandamus is well settled. (People v. Fullenwider, 329 HI. 65. 70; Levitt v. Attorney General, 111 Conn. 634, 151 Atl. 171, 174; State V. Berry, 3 Minn. 190, 191; San Mateo County v. Cullihan, 69 Cal. 647, 11 Pac. 386; 34 Am. Jur. 922, Sec. 145, N. 21; 38 C. J., 673, Sec. 220, N. 89, 90.) (b) The Auditor has no discretion but must draw warrants upon the State Treasurer on vouchers duly certified according to law; the admitted facts suggest no justification for his refusal; and the Attorney General has no power to direct him to disregard mandatory statutes. The statutes provide that the Auditor of Public Accounts "shall draw his warrant on the State Treasurer for the payment of the same upon the presentation of itemized vouchers, issued s t i f l e d and apA u r +h* President and Secretary of the Board proved by ^ / ^ f ^ i v e r s i t y o f Illinois, with the of Trustees of * ^ X r r f t y a t t a c h e d thereto." corporate seal^ of^the u ^ ^ ^ ( g ) j [111. Rev. Stat 1941, ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ . ^ ^ vouchers for wnicn ^ ^ ^ ^ TreMurer were deliver his ^ d cert ified in accordance with admittedly drawni a p p l i c a b l e laws of this State this statute and^ ^ . ^ ^ ^ d i g c r e t i o n u n d e r t h e warran
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