Harris County v. Williams

(After stating the foregoing facts.)

The act of 1917 (Acts 1917, p. 283) was subsequent to the amendment (Ga. L. 1916, p. 24) of article 6, section 13, paragraph 2, of the constitution of 1877 (Code Supp. § 6534). That amendment declares that “the General Assembly shall have power, at any time, by a majority vote of each branch, to abolish the fees at present accruing to the office of solicitor-general in any particular judicial circuit, and in lieu thereof to prescribe a salary for such office, in addition to the salary prescribed in section 6533, and without regard to the uniformity of such…