Gaines' Adm'r v. Marye
Supreme Court of Virginia
Original application for a writ of Mandamus against the Auditor of Public Accounts.
1Opinion of the Court
Eiely9 J.,
delivered the opinion of the court.
It is enacted in the eighth sub-division of sec. 183, of the Code, that “The Register of the Land Office, who shall also be the Superintendent of Public Buildings, and also of Weights and Measures, and as such shall perform and discharge all the duties belonging thereto, as fixed and determined by law,” *226shall annually receive “the sum of fifteen hundred dollars, which shall be compensation for all his services.”
It thus distinctly appears that the Begister of the Land Office is made ex officio the Superintendent of Public Buildings, and also the…
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