
    No. 8132.
    The State of Louisiana ex rel. Smith & McKenna, in Liquidation, vs. The Funding Board, Under Act of 1880.
    The duties of the Funding Board under Act No. 104 of 1880, are ministerial,-and may be enforced by mandamus.
    Judgment having been rendered in favor of the Relators for their claim against the Charity Hospital of New Orleans, and for the interest thereon, in their original suit against the Board of Administrators of said Charity Hospital, the Funding Board cannot refuse to fund the amount of such interest as well as of the principal of the judgment, on the ground that the funding, under the Constitutional Ordinance and the Statute, is an act of grace on the part of the State, which cannot be extended beyond the express words of the law, in which the funding of the interest is not provided for.
    APPEAL from the Civil District Court, for the Parish of Orleans. Houston, J.
    
      Kennard, Howe & Prentiss, for the Relators and Appellants.
    
      J. G. Egan, Attorney General, for the Respondent and Appellee.
   The opinion of the Court was delivered by

Levy, J.  