State ex rel. Davis v. Clausen

Citations

• 47 Wash. 372
• 91 P. 1089
• 1907 Wash. LEXIS 769

Syllabus

<p>Statutes— Amendments — Construction — States — Officers— Term op Office—Increase of Salary. Laws of 1907, amending the law of 1901, relating to the state hoard of control, “so as to read as follows,” does not repeal the provisions in the former (omitted from amendment) fixing the term of office and the time for the beginning thereof, where it was evident that the intent of the amendment was to change the salary and a few of the duties, and to deal with an existing office, not to create a new one; hence the salary of a member of the board under the old law cannot be increased during his term of office as fixed thereby, although he was reappointed on the taking effect of the amendment before his old term had expired.</p>