State ex rel. Coghlan v. Poindexter

Pee Oueiam.

In 1919 the legislature provided for the appointment by the supreme court of an officer to be known as the supreme court reporter, state law librarian and legislative librarian, prescribed his duties and fixed his compensation, and made appropriation for the-payment thereof. Laws 1919, chap. 211. The act provided that such-officer should receive an annual salary of $2,500, § 8, chap. 211, supra. Chap. 211, Laws 1919, has never been amended nor have any of its provisions been expressly repealed. In the general appropriation bill enacted by the legislature in 1921, the salary of the…