Manning v. Klippel

Citations

• 9 Or. 367

Syllabus

<p>Clerk’s and Sheriff’s Compensation — Local and Special Law Void.</p> <p>An act of the legislature, approved October 25, 1880, entitled “An act to provide the compensation of the sheriffs and clerks,” of the fourteen counties named in the act, and also “to provide for the payment to said counties of fixed sums of money for the performance of said services by the sheriffs and clerks of said counties,” provided annual salaries for the said sheriffs and clerks, and established a table of fees for services performed by said officers for said counties, different from that established by law for other counties in the state. The act further provided that the fees so established should be collected by the sheriffs and clerks of the counties included in the act, and paid over to said counties: Held: That said act was a local law for the assessment and collection of taxes for county purposes, within the meaning of subdivision 10 of article 23, of the constitution of Oregon, that the legislative assembly shall not pass local or special laws for the assessment and collection of taxes for state, county, township or ioad purposes, and, consequently, void.</p>