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 appropriation law (§ 42, C. L. 1913), notwithstanding subsequent general appropriation bills covering the same items. It is not my purpose to engage in an extended discussion of the opinion from this standpoint, as I regard it as being erroneous upon the second ground. But in passing I deem it well to point out the repealing provision of the general appropriation law of 1915, which for the first time embraced specific appropriations for legislative expenses. Section 4 of that act (chap. 43, Session Laws of 1915), among other things, provides:

“* * * It is the intent hereby to enact an exclusive general appropriation bill, and to repeal each and every act and all parts of acts now existing which appropriate or purport to appropriate money for any of the offices, officers, purposes and things set out in § 3 hereof in so far as the same conflicts therewith, or relate to appropriations for the same matters or purposes provided for therein.”

To like effect see chap. 24, § 4, Session Laws 1917, chap. 16, § 3, Session Laws of 1919, and chap. 5, § 26, Laws of Special Session, 1919.

That the items embraced in a general appropriation bill supersede standing appropriations for the same or kindred objects and effect an implied repeal, see State ex rel. Wallace v. Jorgenson, 34 N. D. 527, 159 N. W. 35. Under the decision referred to and the subsequent specific appropriations for legislative expenses, there is clearly no standing appropriation for the expense of legislative investigations as such. And such expenses could not be paid even if authorized by both branches of the Legislative Assembly except as they are payable from the items designated in the general appropriation bill as “per diem of officers and employees, printing, and miscellaneous expenses and supplies.” See chap. 5, § 25, Laws Special Session, 1919.

Coming now to the question upon which the majority opinion is based: What is meant by the expression “authorized by the Legislative Assembly”? It will be noticed that § 42, C. L. 1913, before as well as after its amendment, was a standing appropriation for the payment of the members, officers, and employees “‘of the Legislative Assembly.” Now, strictly and literally speaking, there is no such class of employees authorized to be employed as employees of the Legislative Assembly. Those employed are either employees of the Senate or the House of Representatives. They are not only specifically referred to as such in § 34, but § 35, C. L. 1913, expressly authorizes either house by its own resolution to employ