McCarthy v. Commonwealth ex rel. Griffiths
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to tbe Court of Common Pleas of Selmylhill county: Of January Term 1885, No. 455. Mandamus, by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania at the relation of Thomas W. Griffiths, Frank M. Bertram and John Haley, Auditors of Schuylkill county, against William J. McCarthy, Protbonotary of said county, to compel him to file copy of Lis fee account.
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Error to tbe Court of Common Pleas of Selmylhill county: Of January Term 1885, No. 455. Mandamus, by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania at the relation of Thomas W. Griffiths, Frank M. Bertram and John Haley, Auditors of Schuylkill county, against William J. McCarthy, Protbonotary of said county, to compel him to file copy of Lis fee account. The petition of tbe relators averred as follows: That they were duly elected Auditors for said county, were qualified according to law and entered upon the duties of their office on January 5th, 1885. That upon the same day William J. McCarthy, who bad…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Gobdon
We have no doubt but that the Act under consideration, the Act of June 22d, 1883, falls within the. inhibition of the seventh section, of the third article, of our present constitution. “The General Assembly shall not pass any local or special law,.....regulating the affairs of counties, cities, townships, wards, boroughs or school districts.” In the Act cited the attempt has been made to regulate, in certain and very important particulars, the affairs of counties, the population of which exceeds one hundred thousand, and is less than one hundred and fifty thousand. Fees which heretofore…
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