The Placer herald., 1856-11-01

one charged with crime, per mile, 80
Justices for examination of prisoner, 500
Committing prisoner to Jail, 5oO
Boarding prisoners, per week, l0,00
Jalor, per month, 2oo.oo
The County Clerk received and by law
was entitled to charge the same fees in
County civil and criminal business as were
allowed in civil cases between individuals
These fees were in items. For each motion,
order. appearance, rule &c, at one dollar
each, with charges for subppnas, warrants
lSc, at from one dollar and fifty cents to two
dollars each; and for tileing each and every
paper in each cause. These items made
bill of cost against the County of from $50
to $50 in each criminal case, and in civil
county business where a large number OF
overseers of roads had to be appointed, ac-
counts allowed, &c, the items charged under
the fee bill swelled often the Clerks fees
alone to $4,000 per day; and these charges
were lawful, as the Supreme Court OF our
State decided.
Let us now compare with the above fees
of the old fee bill the fees chargeabe under
the new fee bill, and by which the present
county officers are governed in making out
their bills:
SHERIFF'S FEES.
Attending on any Court for each day $500
Bringing up prisoner on Habeas Corpus, 200
For summoning Grand Jury of %, 1900
Summoning each trial Jury of II persons 600
For each additional Juror. 90
For service of any process in criminal
cases. for each mile necessarily travelled. ~
Taking prisoner before Magistrate or to
prison. ~
Serving subppnas venres. in criminal
cases. he shall receive mileage for the most
distant only where WITNESSES and Jurors
live in the same direction.
CLERKS FEES
Trial of each issue where the charge is
felony, 800
Trial of each issue where the charge is
misdemeanor, 800
He shall receive no other fee whatever in
a criminal action except for copies Of pa
pers for each folio 40
CLERKS FEES. AS AUDITOR.
For making duplicate of taxes copies
thereof required, per folio. 80
AS CLERK OF SUPERVISORS.
For each days service. 500
By comparison of the above items, in
the old fee bill with the new, it will be
seen that for county business the fees allowed
to be charged were reduced 900 per cent at
least but Notwithstanding this great advan-
tage in form of the X. n. financiers we see
that they have added over $4,000 to our
debt.
We have one other item to alude to, and
that is this: Our present Court House and
our old County Jail were built under the
direction and supervision of our Court Of
Sessions at cost of the rise of soc, 900 and
nothing was charged for their supervision,
but when the Know Nothing party were
reigning the Board of Supervisors paid W. T.
Henson over $1,000 for experimenting the
building of the Jail.
Let the people of this county examine
closely how they stand let them see how
this X. n. Party have used their funds and
then ask themselves it they can longer trust
such men to do business for them. We
think they will answer no, aud return again
to the party who in every trying emergency,
has been the hope and stay of the people.
at is all very we'll and perfectly consistent
for the Democracy TO make bare faced and
slanderous assertions, but figures which 'can-
not lie are the evidence we re y upon for
our vindication and maintenance
The above is the closing sentence of the
PresS's article on the County finances" of
last week
We take the figures too; and rely upon
those figures to show who ''has made bare
faced and slanderous assertions,' reminding
| the Press that curses, like chich'ens piU come
| home to ro0st
The County Finances
HERALD OFFICE. OCT. 10, SO.
Since our last issue we find we have been led
into an error in the above article. 1t occurred at
the Treasurer's Office and by the Deputy Treasur-
er mistaking the question asked by the gentleman
who called for US, to ascertain the facts. We de-
sired to know the amount of scrip accepted from
2nd of June last to October lst, and the deputy
understood the question to refer to the 2nd June
1855 and so responded with the information.
We charged them with accepting S7G,502. and
credit them with paying out and cash on hand
S66.l40 G5, between the End June last and lst of
October inst, when it should be from June 2nd