Smithson v. Fall River County

Citations

• 15 S.D. 34
• 87 N.W. 1
• 1901 S.D. LEXIS 78

Syllabus

<p>Laws 1897, Chap. 47, § 1, provides that the salaries of registers of deeds shall he regulated hy the value of the property in their respective counties. Section 2 declares that, if the county commissioners deem it necessary, they may fix the number of clerks to be employed, and the compensation they shall receive, to he paid from the special salary fund or the county general fund b'y warrant. “Provided, That the total amount paid to the register of deeds for salary and clerk hire shall not exceed the amount of fees collected” by him. Held, that where a register of deeds had received all the fees collected by him, he was entitled to nothing more.</p>