State v. Board of Freeholders

*286The opinion of the court was delivered by

Van Syckel, J.

The prosecutor seeks to set aside a resolution of the board of freeholders directing the payment by the county collector to W. T. Hoffman, Esq., of $400 on account of services rendered by him as associate counsel to the board in the investigation ordered by the Chief Justice under and in pursuance of the act in Gen. Stat., p. 2238.

1. There is no authority given the board to employ associate counsel in this summary investigation.

So far as it was an investigation into the conduct of the members of the board as individuals, they clearly had…