Guillory v. Police Jury

ON THE MERITS

Parishes are recognized in our law and in the Constitution of 1921 as governmental divisions' of the State.

The Constitution, Art. 7, Sec. 73,- provides that clerks of court may be paid a salary and that the fees collected in. excess of their salary may be disposed, of as required by law.

The law, Acts 1916, No. 142, Sec. 5, provides that if at the end of a year there remains any part of the Clerks’ Salary Fund, it shall be turned into the parish treasury. A provision like that contained in the Constitution of 1921 is contained in an amendment to the Constitution of 1913 adopted in…