Farwell v. City of Rockland
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
On facts a&reed. Assumpsit to recover a balance alleged to be due Mr. Farwell Upon his salary as judge of the police court of Rockland, for the term of four years from March 7, 1866. This power to fix the annual salary of this office was given by the act creating the court (Special Laws of 1861, c. 78, § 13) to the mayor and board of aldermen of Rockland, who on the twenty-fifth day of July, 1865, established it at $500 per annum, instead of its previous rate of $300. The…
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On facts a&reed. Assumpsit to recover a balance alleged to be due Mr. Farwell Upon his salary as judge of the police court of Rockland, for the term of four years from March 7, 1866. This power to fix the annual salary of this office was given by the act creating the court (Special Laws of 1861, c. 78, § 13) to the mayor and board of aldermen of Rockland, who on the twenty-fifth day of July, 1865, established it at $500 per annum, instead of its previous rate of $300. The plaintiff was elected March 5, 1866, qualified the seventh day of that month, and served his full constitutional term. May…
1Opinion of the CourtAppleton, C. J.
The act of 1861, c. 78, establishing “a police court in the city of Rockland,” approved March 14, 1861, provides in the thirteenth section, that “the judge of said court shall receive from said city, in quarter yearly payments, at the close of each quarter, an annual salary of such amount as the mayor and aldermen shall determine, which shall be in full for all fees pertaining "to said office.”
On the twenty-fifth day of July, 1865, the following vote or order was passed :
“In board of aldermen, July 25, 1865. Alderman Wise presented the following order which was passed; Ordered, that the…
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