Board of Supervisors v. Jones

Citations

• 63 Ill. 531

Syllabus

<p>1. Fees op county officers—special laws regulating repealed by constitution. Section 11 of article 10 of the present State constitution has abrogated all prior special statutes relating to the fees and compensation of township and county officers, but the officers in counties where such special acts were in force were not thereby deprived of all claim for fees; they were by such abrogation remitted to the general law on the subject, which had never been repealed.</p> <p>2. Statute—whether special or general. The act of 1865 relating to fees of certain officers, which gave increased fees in fifty-one counties, and allowed greater fees to clerks than was allowed in the other counties of the State, was a special law within the meaning of the constitutional provision. The act of 1867, continuing the same in force in certain counties, until otherwise provided, did not have the effect to make the law a general one.</p> <p>3. Same—township organization law. The constitution having expressly authorized a township organization law which might be operative in certain counties and not in others, such law is to be regarded as a general law.</p>