San Luis Obispo County v. Darke

Citations

• 76 Cal. 92
• 18 P. 118
• 1888 Cal. LEXIS 828

Syllabus

<p>Public Officers—Recorder of San Luis Obispo County—Pees of Recorder — Acts Providing for — County Government Act. — The act of March 31, 1876, providing in effect that the county clerk of San Luis Obispo County, who was at that time ex officio recorder and auditor, should receive a stated salary as his only compensation in his three official capacities, became inoperative when, after 1881, the county became a county of the second class, and the offices of clerk, recorder, and auditor were filled by different persons. Upon that act becoming inoperative, the recorder became entitled to receive the fees provided by the act of March 29, 1870, and the incumbent in office at the time of the passage of the county government act of 1883 continued to be so entitled, under section 182 of that act, during his then term of office.</p> <p>Id. — Constitutional Law — Act of March 29, 1870. — The act of March 29, 1870, in so far as it provided for the compensation of the recorder by fees, is not inconsistent with the provisions of section 5 of article 11 of the constitution, and did not cease to be operative, under section 1 of article 22 of the constitution, on the 1st of July, 1880,</p>