Hughston v. Board of Supervisors
Mississippi Supreme Court
Hughston v. Board of Supervisors, 68 Miss. 660 (Miss. 1891)
Campbell
Hughston v. Board of Supervisors
Opinion of the Court
delivered the opinion of the court.
The first section of “ An act for the relief of assessors in this state and for other purposes,” approved February 14, 1890, does not contain apt words to entitle assessors to five cents for each poll assessed in 1888 and 1889, in addition to the compensation allowed by former laws. If it was the purpose to give additional compensation for past services, it should have been plainly expressed.
Affirmed.
Reference
- Full Case Name
- P. M. Hughston v. Board of Supervisors of Carroll County
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- 1. CONSTRUCTION or Statute. Officer. Compensation for past services. A statute will not be so construed as to give to officers additional compensation for past services, unless the purpose to do tbis is plainly expressed. 2. Same. Laws 1890, p. 35. Assessing polls. Compensation. Case. The act of 1890 (Laws p. 35) provides that the board of supervisors in each county shall make an allowance to the assessor of “five cents for each poll assessed” in 1888 and 1889, where he “has not received any allowance.” In a suit by an assessor who had received an allowance of “ five cents for each individual assessed” during the said years 1888 and 1889, in accordance with the law then in force, held, that he could not, under the act of 1890, recover additional compensation for polls assessed during said years.