State ex rel. Stratton v. Maynard

Citations

• 35 Wash. 168
• 76 P. 937
• 1904 Wash. LEXIS 431

Syllabus

<p>State Officers — Attorney General — Salary -- Territorial Law Allowing Fees^Repeal. Territorial Laws, 1887-8, providing that tbe attorney general shall receive an annual salary of $1,800, and tbe further sum of ten per cent on all money collected upon legal process instituted to enforce claims due the territory, is repugnant to Const., art. 3, § 21. providing that he shall receive an annual salary of $2,000, which may be increased by the legislature, but shall never exceed $3,500, since it is clearly the intent of the constitution that the whole compensation of the executive officers should be fixed by salary, as distinguished from the fee system.</p>