State ex rel. Murphy v. Barnes

Citations

• 24 Fla. 29

Syllabus

<p>1. So much of section 14, chapter 3731, acts of 1887, providing for compensation of county Solicitors, as directs the payment of' their per diem hy the State, is in violation of section 15, article-XII, of the Constitution.</p> <p>2. The fact that this section 15 has its place under an article headed “Education,” is of no significance as to the meaning and intent of that part relating to county officers generally, as is show» hy the proceedings of the Constitutional Convention.</p> <p>3. When the Constitution prescribes the manner of doing a thing, that. is in effect a prohibition against a passage of a law prescribing a. different manner of doing it.</p> <p>4. The Solicitors for County Criminal Courts are county officers, and under said section 15 their per diem must he paid by the county; and the per diem per annum compensation fixed for them, payable quarterly, is a stated salai-y within the meaning of the Constitufion.</p>