State ex rel. Ross v. Clausen

Citations

• 47 Wash. 607
• 92 P. 453
• 1907 Wash. LEXIS 820

Syllabus

<p>Officers —' Compensation — Constitutional Law —• Increase of Salary. Where the commissioner of public lands (an office created by the constitution) was elected for the term of four years and served for two years, drawing salary under general appropriation acts which, for ten years theretofore, allowed a salary of $2,000 per annum, his salary cannot be increased during his term of office by a general act fixing his compensation at $3,000, even if the same were the first general act fixing any salary for such officer.</p>