In re Appeal From the Settlement & Audit of the Auditors of Buckingham Township

Opinion by

Judge Blatt,

The Buckingham Township Supervisors (supervisors) appeal here an order of the Court of Common Pleas of Bucks County which subjected them to a surcharge in the amount of $35,743.231 for monies unlawfully paid from Township funds. Section 545 of the Second Class Township Code (Township Code), Act of May 1, 1933, P.L. 103, as amended, 53 P.S. §65545.

It was stipulated that the supervisors, in their official capacities, approved2 the expenditures here in question and that these expenditures were made in a *616successful effort to lobby before the state legislature for the passage…