Keily v. Board of Supervisors

Citations

• 58 Ill. 494

Syllabus

<p>1. County treasurers—of their commissions upon money raised and paid out by the county. In order to raise the sum of $300,000, with which to pa)- for tiie old State House in Springfield, the Board of Supervisors of Sangamon county appointed certain persons as a committee to negotiate the bonds of the county for that purpose, which was done, and the proceeds of the bonds were paid by that committee directly into the State treasury, never having passed into the hands of the country treasurer at all. Til ere was no law which directed this money, specifically, to he paid to the county treasurer, nor gave him a commission for receiving and paying it out, specifically: Held, the county treasurer was not entitled to any commission upon the money so raised and disbursed.</p> <p>3. It was competent for the county authorities to appoint special agents to raise, receive and pay over to the Slate the special fund involved iu the purchase of the old State House.</p> <p>3. County .treasurer—of his commissions as county collector. The county treasurer, in counties under township organization, is made the county collector, hut when the county taxes are paid over to him by the town collectors, he receives them as treasurer, not as county collector, and is entitled to no commission on such moneys, as collector, hut only such as is prescribed by law for the duty performed as treasurer. The acts of 1853 and 1861, on that subject, construed.</p>