Sanders v. Sehorn

Citations

• 98 Cal. 227

Syllabus

<p>ClASSIFIOATION OF GliENN COUNTY—CONSTRUCTION OF STATUTES—PoWER OE LeSISI/Ature—County Government Act. — Section 11 of the Act of March 11, 1801, conditionally creating Glenn County, providing that the county officers referred to in the act should receive the same compensation provided by general law in counties of the same class, and declaring it to be a county of the thirty-seventh class, must be regarded as simply determining the population, rather than arbitrarily fixing the class to which it should belong when organized, and in which it should remain irrespective of subsequent legislation, which the legislature has no power to do; and under the subsequent County Government Act of March 81,1891, Glenn County, with the same population, became a county of the forty-first class.</p>