Board of Drainage Com'rs v. Flannagan

Citations

• 126 Miss. 429
• 89 So. 1

Syllabus

<p>Counties. County treasurer, acting as treasurer of drainage district, may recover commissions therefor. ,</p> <p>Under chapter 192, Law 1910 (section 1875, Hemingway’s Code), providing that “in counties having county depositories the treasurer shall receive an annual salary .of three hundred dollars per annum, and the same shall be allowed and paid in monthly payments ánd the treasurers in such counties shall receive no other fees or emoluments for their services as county treasurer,” a county treasurer who is acting treasurer of drainage districts organized in the county is not precluded from recovery of such commissions as are provided by statute as compensation for handling the funds coming into his hands as treasurer of such drainage districts,.</p>