Tucker's Appeal

Citations

• 271 Pa. 462
• 114 A. 626
• 1921 Pa. LEXIS 527

Syllabus

<p>Public officers — Poor directors — County commissioners — Compensation — Increase of compensation during term — Act of June 7, 1917 — C onstitution.</p> <p>1. The Act of June 7, 1917, P. L. 570, providing for compensation to county commissioners who are also directors of the poor within counties of a given class, has reference to officers who actually perform duties of directors of the poor and county commissioners.</p> <p>2. In such counties the two officers are separate entities with separate powers and duties fixed by law.</p> <p>3. County commissioners who are algo directors of the poor and perform the duties of the latter office, are as to such office public officers, and are within section 13, article III, of the Constitution, which denies their right to an increase in salary during their term of office.</p> <p>Public officers — County auditors — Compensation—Constitutional officers.</p> <p>4. County auditors are constitutional officers, and as such their salaries cannot be increased during their term of office.</p>