Purcell v. Parks

Citations

• 82 Ill. 346

Syllabus

<p>1. Fees Aim salames—county clerk not entitled to appropriate fees until compensation is fixed. Where the county board fails to fix the compensation of the county clerk, elected after the adoption of the constitution of 1870, he is not entitled to appropriate any of the fees of his office to his own use until the amount of his compensation is fixed.</p> <p>2. Where the county board has not fixed the compensation of the county clerk before his election, the power to do so remains, and they may fix it after his election and it will not be a violation of the constitutional provision prohibiting the increasing or diminishing of his compensation during his term of office, because, until fixed by the board, he has no compensation to be either increased or diminished.</p> <p>3. Where the board has once acted, and fixed the compensation of the county clerk, that compensation can not be increased or diminished during his term. Any subsequent order of the board, either increasing or diminishing the compensation of a county clerk, can operate only on the compensation of one whose term begins after the making of such order.</p>