Commonwealth v. Collier

Citations

• 213 Pa. 138
• 62 A. 567
• 1905 Pa. LEXIS 394

Syllabus

<p>Public officers — Board of revision — County officers — Appointment—Judicial functions — Constitutional law.</p> <p>The three persons who compose the board for the assessment and revi- . sion of taxes created by the Act of March 24, 1905, P. L. 47, for counties containing a population of not less than 300,000, nor more than 1,000,000, are not county officers, and the direction of the' act that they shall be appointed by the courts of common pleas of the proper county, is constitutional. Sección 2 of article XIV of the constitution which declares that county officers shall be elected at the general elections, has no application to the board created by the act of March 24, 1905.</p> <p>The provision in section 21 of article V of the constitution, that judges shall-be exempt from the imposition of nonjudicial duties, applies only to judges of the Supreme Court.</p>