Hughston v. Board of Supervisors

Citations

• 68 Miss. 660

Syllabus

<p>1. CONSTRUCTION or Statute. Officer. Compensation for past services.</p> <p>A statute will not be so construed as to give to officers additional compensation for past services, unless the purpose to do tbis is plainly expressed.</p> <p>2. Same. Laws 1890, p. 35. Assessing polls. Compensation. Case.</p> <p>The act of 1890 (Laws p. 35) provides that the board of supervisors in each county shall make an allowance to the assessor of “five cents for each poll assessed” in 1888 and 1889, where he “has not received any allowance.” In a suit by an assessor who had received an allowance of “ five cents for each individual assessed” during the said years 1888 and 1889, in accordance with the law then in force, held, that he could not, under the act of 1890, recover additional compensation for polls assessed during said years.</p>