Show SKEEN OF OGDEN I MAKES NEW M MOVE VEi I j j I i k to o Prevent ent Pa of or j J I Compensation l Voted to I Special Auditor J I IA Attorney A J. J 1 I D. D has noUh notified 1 CI City Au Auditor Florence Stanford Stanfold not notto notto notto to pay pa pa R. R T. T Harris Haris alel and C. C R It H Hol- Hol special auditors of the hc city's books hooks the he extra compensation appropriated to io them theta by hy the thc city counci council coun coun- cil cli ci Monday ronda C evening He 11 lIe alleges that the action acton of th the council counci was Ic illegal al and that tho time compensation aton having ha once been fixed cannot be increased The Tho cl city auditor has hag therefore defer deferred r red d action acton in the matter matr and will wt await awai th the advice of oC the thc lh council learning of Mr I Sl Skeen's objections lions lons Mr Ie Ir Harl Harris Immediately asked akell Skeen's keens att attorney James N. N for an nil on opinion on un the matter mater Mr Kimball gave Ja C out the following which will 1 be to the th Council Monday Mon Momi Iol- Iol day evening Old Opinion The Th constitution of ot this state prohibits the l legislature granting power rower to any an municipal authority to grant any In extra compensation fee rte or or r allowance to un any public officer agent a ent servant or om contract nn after r service iia ha lias been rendered or a contract hn has been entered Into and pcr- pcr Jr 1 In la whole or oi or In part parl Const Artt Art t Sec 30 ov 3 this provision In 1 terms vas wis IS only oily a limitation n n of M the tho powers powers of or time the tl lecis- lecis lature at the same ame time It ft Is also an im- im alo limitation of the tho power of the time el city authorities Jower Consequently If it there thero waa nothing more than nan appears of or the thc action of ot the of the tl tenth Instant In granting l you the u additional two hundred dollars and the action acton of or thA mayor orthe el nth nth- In approving the same ame was without authority But it If if as as you OU state state you ou notified d tl the mayor and nd council counci aSter atter r February 19 amid fore before February 22 2 th the tho da lay ay you OU upon your our work that you ou could not nol and would not do o the work vork for tor or three hundred dolar dollars and were ere by v them assured d lint thol If I time the time em- em plo justified It I they thc would give ve you ou uch such compensation aton In Jn addition to the time three hundred dollars as the thou Um em cm- loyed Justified n you ou LIlt did I not accept I th the le contract as 38 specified in th time the f inane report but entered upon your our 1 ork olk under an Implied d promise that you OU should hould ton Ion be le paid Jull a a. a rea reasonable And Mid the tue gr grant rant nt of or two hundred dollars on n the the- the tenth Instant In tnt was n wIth Hi author author- Iy ly 13 nm and valk alIc l I That you did have such an assurance rom the council counci and ma mayor r abundant abundantly from rom the She act fact that thal the council counci and ind mayor maor approved your or communication e o i f the Ir t J Iii In wh Ie you state te youad you YOI had iad such assurance |