Case Name: JOSEPH S. PAXSON, Petitioner, v. HENRY M. HALE, Auditor, Respondent
Court: Supreme Court of California
Jurisdiction: California
Decision Date: 1867-11-29
Citations: 1 Cal. Unrep. 471
Docket Number: No. 1514
Parties: JOSEPH S. PAXSON, Petitioner, v. HENRY M. HALE, Auditor, Respondent.
Judges: We concur: Shafter, J.; Sawyer, J.; Currey, C. J.
Reporter: California Unreported Cases
Volume: 1
Pages: 471–471

Head Matter:
JOSEPH S. PAXSON, Petitioner, v. HENRY M. HALE, Auditor, Respondent.
No. 1514;
November 29, 1867.
Fund Commissioners — Salaries.—The Provision in Statutes of 1861, section 1, page 554, making the salaries of fund commissioners “full compensation for all official services required of them hy law,” refers to services of such persons as officers of the city government, and not as fund commissioners.
Mandamus from San Francisco County.
Haight & Temple for petitioner.

Opinion:
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SANDERSON, J.
The offices of treasurer and fund com-missioner, though held by the same person, are so distinct and separate as they would be if held by different persons. The duties are separate and distinct and the same is true of the salaries annexed: Stats. 1855, p. 285, sec. 6. The statute creating the board of fund commissioners and fixing the compensation for their services is wholly unaffected by the subsequent legislation fixing their salaries as officers of the city government. The provision that their salaries, as officers of the city government, "shall be full compensation for all official services required of them by law" (Stats. 1861, p. 554, sec. 1), refers to their services as such officers and not as members of the board of fund commissioners.
Let a peremptory writ of mandamus issue.
We concur: Shafter, J.; Sawyer, J.; Currey, C. J.