The Placer herald., 1856-10-18

one charged with crime, per mile, so
Justices for examination of prisoner, 500
Committing prisoner to Jail, 800
Boarding prisoners, per week, l0,0O
Jailor per month, Zoo,oo
The County Clerk received, and by law
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 subpenas, warrants,
&C., at from one dollar and fifty cents to two
dollars each; and for filcing each and every
paper in each cause. These items made q
bill of cost against the County of from $50
to 500 in each criminal case, and in civil
county business, where 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 chargeable under
the new fee bill, and by which the present
county officers are governed i'll making out
their bills:
SHERlFF'S FEES.
Attending on any Court for each day $500
Bringing up prisoner on Habeas Corpus, 200
For summonino a Grand jury of 25 Is 90
Summoning each trial Jury of l2persons 600
For each additional Juror, 5O
For service of any process in criminal
cases. for each mile necessarily travelled, ~
Taking prisoner before Magistrate or to
prison, ~
Serving subppnas or venireS, in criminal
hall ,.1.tnr font fl,ar
distant only where WITNESSES and Jurors
live in the same direction.
CLERKS FEES
Trial of each issue where the charge is
felony 500
Trial of each issue where the charge is
misdemeanor, 800
He shall receive no other fee whatever in
Il criminal action except for copies of pa
pers for each folio, 40
CLERKS FEES, AS AUDITOR.
For making duplicate of taxes, or copies
thereof required, per folio. so
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 200 per cent at
least, but notwithstanding this great advan-
taoe in form of the X. n. financiers we see
that thev have added over $4,000 to our
debt.
We have one other item to aude 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 a cost of the rise of $4,000 and
nothing was charged for their supervision,
but when the Know Nothing party were
regning the Board of Supervisors paid w. T.
Henson over 900 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 if 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 well and perfectly consistent
for the Democracy to make bare faced and
sanderous assertions, but figures which ''can
not lie' are the evidence we rely 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 rel y upon
those figures to show who ''has made bare
faced and slanderous assertions" reminding
the Press that curses, like chichenS miU come
home TO rOOst.