Vaughan v. State Ex Rel. Barker

This proceeding is to test the constitutionality of an act "to provide for the payment of ex officio fees to clerks to circuit courts in all counties of this state having at the last federal census or any subsequent federal census, a population of not less than 53,401 and not more than 58,401." Gen. Acts 1919, p. 690. This act is assailed as violative of sections 96, 104 (24), 106, and 110 of the Constitution of 1901.

The court takes judicial notice that at the time of its passage in 1919 the act applied only to the county of Dallas, having a population under the federal census of 1910 of…