Mogel v. Berks County

Citations

• 154 Pa. 14
• 26 A. 227
• 1893 Pa. LEXIS 832

Syllabus

<p>County auditors — County treasurer — Prisons.</p> <p>Where the treasurer of Berks county has paid prison orders with county funds, neither the orders, nor a settlement of such items by the prison auditor, can bind the county auditors.</p> <p>Prison inspectors — Meals of.</p> <p>Prison inspectors while at the prison in the discharge of their official duties, have a right to be furnished with meals at the expense of the prison funds.</p> <p>Expenses of journey to inspect the Bertillon system, — Act, May Y, 1889.</p> <p>The expenses of a journey of the inspectors of a prison to another county to examine the practical workings of the Bertillon system of measuring convicts under the act of May 7, 1889, P. L. 103, is properly charged to the prison funds.</p> <p>County buildings — Expenditures—Prison inspectors.</p> <p>Where a building is added to a county prison by the orders of the prison inspectors without authority from the eouniy commissioners or the court of quarter sessions, and there is no bill or document to show the expenditures upon the building, a claim for its erection is properly disallowed by the county auditors.</p>