The Placer herald., 1856-10-11
NUMBER 5.

cents ON the dollar; since then he has been
paid in cash. This Is quite an item to him,
and accounts for his deep interest in its pas
sage lie, and W. 4. Henson, Sheriff, are
really the men who have been benefited by
it. They are paid for certain services i'll
cash, when before those who done what they
now do received their pay in scrip.
There is another item We want here to
mention, that is to compare the fees charged
by law while the old debt was being created,
and the fees charged since that time.
The Sheriff and executive officers were al
lowed by tho Court of Sessions and the
Board Of Supervisors, the following rates Of
charges:
Attending before Justice with each prisoner tor
| examination $500
MAKING an arrest 800
Travelling to County Jail with prisoner,
per mile. l,OO
Travelling in making service, per mile,
zone way) %
Attendiuo Grand Jury per day 1900
Attending any Court. per day, lO,Oo
Subpoeuaing each Grand or Trial Juror, 100
Mileage with same, per mile, zone wayo 90
Attending with prisoner any Court on
liabeas Corpus, each, 3,uo
Travelling with warrant to arrest any
one charged with crime, per mile, 90
Justices for examination of prisoner 500
Committing prisoner to Jail, 5.0o
Boarding prisoners, per week lo,0o
Jailor. Der month 10000
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 subpoenas, warrants,
T. I II 10
dollars each; and for lilcing 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
oyerseers Of roads had to be appointed ac-
counts allowed, &c., the items charged under
the fee bill sweled 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 in making out
their bills:
SIIERIFF'S FEES.
Attending on any Court for each day $500
Bringing up prisoner on Ilabeas Corpus, 200
For summoning Grand Jury of 70, l5,0O
Summoning each trial Jury of II persons 600
For each additional Juror, so
For service of any process in criminal
cases. for each mile necessarily travelled, 20
Taking prisoner before Magistrate or to
prison, ~
Serving subpnnas yonircs, 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, 900
Trial of each issue where the charge is
mislcmeanor, 800
He shall receive no other fee whatever in
a criminal action except for copies Of pa
pors for each folio, Az
CLERKS FEES, AS AUDITOR.
For making duplicate Of taxes or copies
thereof required per folio, ~
AS CLERK OF SUPERVISORS.
For each days service, 800
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-
taee in form of the X. n. hnanciers 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 a cost of the rise Of $4,000 and
nothing was charged for their supervision,
but when the Know Nothing party were
reigning the Board ofSupervsors 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 if they can longer trust
such men to do business for thom. 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
slanderous assertions, but figures which "can-
not lie" are the evidence we rely upon for
our yindication and maintenance"
The above is the closing sentence of the
Pycsss 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 chichens ~iH come
home 10 r00St.
CRossrNG THE ONO IN A BuGGY.-Ihe
Cincinnati Coi,uabid says that the Ohio riv-
er is 80 reduced by the drought that on the
23l an agent of Adams Express, and one or