In re Compensation of County Judges

Section 22 of article VI provides for the election of a county judge in each county of this state; “ whose compensation shall be as may be provided by law.”

By section 15 of article XIV of the Constitution, the legislature is required to classify counties for the purpose of providing for and regulating the compensation of county and precinct officers, and it is provided that “ such law shall establish scales of fees to be charged and collected by such of the county and precinct officers as may be designated therein for services to be performed by them respectively; and where salaries are…