Pressley v. Board of Commissioners

Morris, C.

— The question involved in. this case is the construction and meaning of the following provision in the fee and salary law of 1875, viz.:

*46“ The sheriffs of the several counties of the State1, shall tax and charge the following fees and none other, to wit: * * * For hoarding each prisoner lawfully in his charge, per day, sixty cents.”

The appellant insists that, as sheriff of Marion county, when a prisoner is committed to his charge on one; day and discharged by him on another, and some board is furnished to the prisoner on each day, the full sum of sixty cents may be charged by him…