County of Lehigh v. Semmel

Citations

• 124 Pa. 358
• 16 A. 876
• 1889 Pa. LEXIS 1041

Syllabus

<p>1. Public officers who are paid for their services by fees, take and hold their offices cum onere, and can claim, therefore, no compensation out of the public treasury not specified or provided for in the fee-bill.</p> <p>2. The duty required of a constable, under § 12, act of May 13, 1887, P. L. 112, to visit at least once a month all places in his district where liquors are sold or kept, etc., is necessarily connected with his duty to make return of such places, under § 11 of the act, and no separate compensation being given none is recoverable.</p>