Adams v. Coker

Citations

• 85 Miss. 222

Syllabus

<p>1. County Treasurers. Fadtoire to report. Code 1892, § 902.</p> <p>A county treasurer is not liable to tbe penalty for failure to make reports to tbe board of supervisors, as required by Code 1892, § 902, where tbe failure was not caused by an unwillingness or default on bis part, but resulted from a request by tbe members of tbe board to postpone tbe making of tbem.</p> <p>2. Same. Commissions. Code 1892, l 2016. .Political yea/r.</p> <p>A county treasurer’s commissions should be estimated on tbe basis of tbe political year, beginning tbe first of January and ending tbe thirty-first of December, and not on tbe basis of tbe fiscal year, beginning the first of October and ending tbe thirtieth of September.</p>