MacNeill v. Bazemore

Grice, Justice.

In our opinion, the commissioners of roads and revenues of Fulton County, having theretofore set the salary of Bazemore, deputy sheriff, at four hundred dollars per month, had the right thereafter to reduce it. The question involves a construction of the act approved August 13, 1924 (Ga. Laws 1924, pp. 87 et seq.), which changed from the fee to the salary system, in certain counties in Georgia, the clerk, sheriff, ordinary, tax collector and tax-receiver, the act applying to Fulton County. Section 3 thereof declares that the salaries of such officers “shall be fixed” at least…