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that they would have named him therein? reading of this section, it must be apparent that their action in excluding certain officers from the benefits of the subsequent provisions of the statute was done intentionally. Then the only remaining question is, Did they have the power so to do? It is contended by the plaintiff in error that where duties are imposed upon an officer by the legislature, after his salary is fixed by law, and such duties are foreign to the office, that he is entitled to compensation for the work imposed upon him, ex officio.

Now there is nothing in this record which tends to show that the attaching of the Osage Indian Reservation to Pawnee county for judicial purposes was done after the fixing of the salary of the register of deeds by the Board of County Commissioners, nor do we think that this is a fact. The only plausible contention that could be maintained, is that plaintiff in error was the Register of Deeds for Pawnee County only, and that the adding of the Osage Indian Reservation for judicial purposes increased his labors, and also increased the fees earned by the office, and as a matter of justice and equity he ought to be entitled to added compensation therefor, but in such cases we are governed by fixed statutes. The Board of County Commissioners have no right to allow any greater salary than that which is authorized by the statute which creates the office. Now we take the rule to be that the legislature have the right to increase the burdens of the office, to add to the duties and labor of the office by requiring of the officer the performance of additional services such as are germain to the office, and that they are not legally nor constitutionally obliged to add to the compensation, unless such compensation is provided by the statute creating and requiring such additional services. In U. S. vs. King, 147 U. S. 676, that Court says: "When a statute increases the duties of an officer by the addition of other duties germain to the

office, he must perform them without extra compensation."

Now in the case at bar, the additional duties required of the plaintiff in error by virtue of the adding the unorganized Osage Indian Reservation, to Pawnee county, for judicial purposes, were of the same kind and character as those required of him when Pawnee county was standing alone. There is no difference in the kind of the services. It is only an increase in the amount, and it seems to us under the plain wording of the statute, that it was not the intention of the legislature that his salary should be determined upon the basis of the adding together of the population of the county as shown by the return of the assessor, and the population of the Osage Indian Reservation, but that he assumed the burden of the office, and accepted the salary as fixed by the Commissioners, based upon the population of Pawnee county alone. This seems to be the plain, unequivocal meaning of the statute, and it would be useless for us to indulge in speculation as to the moral aspect of the case, or the equities of it, because the fees and salary of the office is determined by fixed statute, which is binding upon the commissioners, and binding upon the courts.

Finding no error in the record, the decision of the district court is affirmed, at the costs of the plaintiff in

error.

All the Justices concurring, except Hainer, J., who having tried the cause below, took no part in this decision.

REVIEWS.

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EDITORIALS.

Judge Alton B. Parker is to deliver the annual address before the American Bar Association which is to meet in St. Paul, Minnesota, in this month.

"The Foundations of Legal Liability" is the title of a new work being brought out by the Edward Thompson Company. It is written by Hon. Thomas A. Street, formerly Professor of Law in Vanderbilt University. It is said to be a work of extraordinary merit. The Thompson Company publish no other kind.

Prof. Christopher C. Langdell, Dean of Harvard Law School, died on the 6th of July, at Cambridge, Mass. of heart failure. He was in his eightieth year, and had been connected with that school since the year of 1870.

Mr. P. T. Morgan, son of Hon. Dick T. Morgan, has just graduated from the Law Department of the Chicago University, and will open an office for the practice of the law in the new State of Oklahoma. Aside from his legal qualifications he is also a graduate from Drake University. He is a young man of character and attainment who will secure attention and respect anywhere.

Miss Margaret McVay, the accomplished lady lawyer of Oklahoma City, has been appointed Assistant Territorial Librarian. A more suitable person could not have been named for the place. She is not only a lady of culture and literary taste in the academic sense, but a trained lawyer; having graduated with honor from the University of Michigan. Her familiarity with standard legal literature is such that she can almost anticipate the wants and supply the authorities desired by lawyers preparing briefs in the library. Address, character and educational ability are three great elements with Miss McVay which especially distinguish her as an ideal law librarian.

Hon. Jesse J. Dunn, Chairman of the Democratic Central Committee of Oklahoma, in his loyalty and respect for the great leader, has appointed from among the most popular, three Oklahoma representative men as a committee, to meet William J. Bryan on his landing in New York. This reception committee is composed of Hon. Roy Hoffman, Hon. Charles J. West, and Hon. M. F. Highly.

The proclamation of the new State of Oklahoma Board of Election announcing the Constitutional Districts will be made public on the 22nd day of August, 1906. The Board has been laboring under many unavoidable disadvantages, but it can be truthfully stated that they have dispatched their duties with all the speed that the circumstances and the nature of the work could permit.

Among the recently located lawyers in Woodward is Mr. Harry H. Smith, who on last January made the highest grade before the examining board of admission for the practice of the law in Oklahoma. Mr. Smith is a graduate of the Washington University of St. Louis.