Supreme Court of Pennsylvania May 1, 1911, Appeal, No. 57 (Commonwealth v. Sharetts)

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Stewart,

Where directors of the poor hold their office by virtue of a special act of assembly erecting them into a corporate body, as is the case here, they are not county officers. So much was clearly decided in Nissley v. Lancaster County, 215 Pa. 562. But it by no means follows that *527they are unaffected by the constitutional amendments of 1909.