State ex rel. Dunn v. Board of Commissioners
Nevada Supreme Court
Original application for a writ of mandamus requiring the • board of commissioners of Humboldt county to allow the relator’s salary as clerk at the rate of two hundred dollars per mouth.
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Original application for a writ of mandamus requiring the • board of commissioners of Humboldt county to allow the relator’s salary as clerk at the rate of two hundred dollars per mouth. The board refused to act upon the claim for the reason that the law of March 9, 1891, had taken all jurisdiction in the matter away from them, and had provided that his salary should be paid by a warrant drawn by the auditor upon the salary fund.for only the sum of one hundred dollars per month. I. The act of the legislature, approved March 9, 1891, is unconstitutional and void in that both the act and the…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court,
Bigelow, J.:
The relator, as clerk of Humboldt county, was, prior to 1892, entitled to a salary of two thousand four hundred dollars per annum, to be allowed by the board of commissioners of that county. This was, however, by the act of March 9, 1891 (Stát. 1891, p. 30), reduced to one thousand two hundred dollars per annum, to be paid by a warrant drawn by the auditor upon the salary fund. He claims that this act is unconstitutional, and this is the question iuvolved in this action.
1. The first ground upon which this claim is made is that both the act audits title embrace more…
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