Pinchot, 090931 PAAGO, AGO 25

Case DateSeptember 09, 1931
CourtPennsylvania
Honorable Gifford Pinchot,
AGO 25
Opinion No. 25
Pennsylvania Attorney General Opinions
Opinions Of The Attorney General
September 9, 1931
         National Guard—Participation in Yorktown Sesqui-centennial Celebration— Expenses—Availability of Appropriation—Space in Yorktown Boole—Act of 1931, No. 31A.          Space in the Yorktown Book to be published in connection with the York-town Sesqui-centennial Celebration, can be taken provided it is used to exploit the Pennsylvania National Guard,—but it will not be permissible to take space for a general description of the achievements of Pennsylvania without reference to the participation of the National Guard in the celebration. Act of 1931, No. 31A.          Honorable Gifford Pinchot,          Governor of Pennsylvania,          Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.          Sir: You have asked us to advise you whether payments in connection with the Yorktown Sesqui-centennial Celebration may be made under Act No. 31-A, approved June 22, 1931.          The act makes an appropriation of ten thousand dollars ($10,000) to the Department of Military Affairs "for the payment of the necessary traveling, subsistence, transportation, housing, contingent, or other expenses incident to the participation in the Sesqui-centennial Celebration at Yorktown, Virginia * * * of officers and enlisted men of the Pennsylvania National Guard selected by the Adjutant General with the approval of the Governor."          The Yorktown Sesqui-centennial Association has asked Pennsylvania to make a contribution of two thousand dollars ($2,000) toward the expense of the celebration and has also requested us to subscribe for a space in the "Yorktown Book," in which each of the forty-eight states is asked, through its Governor, to tell of its achievements. The subscription rate is: two pages, $500; one page, $300; one-half page, $175; and a quarter page, $100.          You wish to know...

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