The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-02-25
Published in The Topeka State Journal
February %, 1881

HOUSE BILL NO. 1874.
AN ACT relating to the Attorney Cen
erals department, prescribing the com
pensation for the officers and employees
thereof and providing that their fees IN
all cases shall be turned into the state
treasury, and repeating all acts and
parts of acts in conflict Herewith.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of the
Section 1. That on and after the sec
ond Monday in January, 1915, A D. the
annual salary of the attorney general
shall be four thousand dollars and then
and thereafter it shall be the duty of the
attorney general to pay into the state
treasury for the benefit of the general
| revenue fund all fees and allowances OF
every kind and character paid to him I'M
der color of any general or special statute
for criminal convictions secured by MN
in violations Of the prohibitory law and
fees awarded to him by virtue of any
statute for abating liquor nuisances and
all fees and allowances for enforcing all
civil or criminal laws against monopolfeS
and in restraint of trade and against
gambling nuisances and practices ana
every other fee or allowance In any CIVIL
criminal case whatsoever whether
specifically mentioned in this act or not
And for the appropriation to his private
use of any such fee or allowance the at
torney general shall forfeit his office and
may be removed in the manner provided
by law; provided, that nothing in this
section shall be construed either to In
crease or diminish the compensation of
the attorney general during the present
term.
Sec. . The attorney general is hereby
authorized to appoint two assistant at
torneys general who shall each receive
mum; provided, that all fees and allow
anceS earned by them, or either of them.
| or allowed to them by any statute or or
whatsoever shall be turned into the gen
eral revenue fund of the state treasury.
And the vouchers for their monthly sal
aries shall not be fTonored by the state
auditor until a verified account of the
fees collected by them, or either of them,
during the preceding month has been
filed in the state auditors office.
Sec. 5. The attorney general may also
appoint office assistant at a salary OF
sixteen hundred dollars per annum. and
one stenographer who shall receive a
salary of twelve hundred dollars per an
mum, one stenographer who shall receive
mum, one stenographer who shall receive
salary of nine hundred dollars per an
mum, and one filing clerk and copyist who
shall receive a salary of nine hundred
dollars per annum.
Sec: A.. All acts and parts of acts in
conflict herewith are hereby repealed.
Sec. ;. This act shall take effect and be
in force from and after its publication in
the official state paper
mated in the House, and passed that
body February 8, 1913.
w. L. BROWN.
Speaker of the House.
GEO. e. ROGERS,
Passed the Senate February %, 1913
Pres Pro Tenn. of the Senate
HAL NJ. MORAN,
Asst. Secretary of the Senate.
Approved Feb. a, 1918.
GEO. H. HODGES,
Governor.
State of Kansas,
Office of the Secretary of State.
7, CHAS. H. SESSIONS, Secretary of
State of the state of Kansas. do hereby
certify that the above and foregoing is a
correct copy of the original enrolled bill
now on file in my office.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have
hereunto subscribed my name
ISeaI1 and affixed my official seal,
this 24th day of February 1913
CHAS. H. SESSIONS
Secretary of State.