The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1861-03-20
For the ffilIsboronsh Recorder.

For the ffillsborongh Recorder
Ma. HEAarr.--rhe appointment Of Tax
Collector for the county Of Orange is OF sui
fcient importance to justify me for this ap.
peaTance in the Recorder, especially as the
refusal of tie Court to appoint one has left US
without any officer to collect the county or
the State tax. The Sheriff can't collect the
taxes, FOR the law which authorized him 10
do 80 has been repealed, aud il tine Cour
nj appoint 4 Tax Collector We shall have
rest from taxation for one year, or as long
as the CDurt refuses TO act under the law.
II this bin originated in personal or pore.
cal hatred to our Sheriff, am not aware OF
liz. The bill was introduced by Democrat
/ from WAYNE, and for that county alone.
Some twenty counties were added orange
among them. | was not in my seat on the
first reading Of The Bill,--when my co,'easne,
Col. Guthrie. added Orange. ] voted Tor the
bill upon It's final passage, aad am as maeh
responsible for il as Col. Guthrie, or Mr..
Turner. think il a good act; so do they.
Our old Sheriff, Mr.. Turrentine, was elected
IN 1889. and resigned in 1882. lie says The
oflice wa. worth from 500 to 5000 dollars
wear. Two thousand will be fair aver
ACE. Forty thousand the old Sheriff realz-
ed in twenty years. Six per cent. on this
amount up 10 the present time will make
, Il 900 dollars, so the old Sheriff received,
, principle and interest, 81, 200 dollars.
!, Our present Sheriff was elected Clerk IN
. ls45. and served, believe, eight Year,.
= Sa, this Office was worth 800 dollars year,
/ he received while Clerk 400 dollars.--in
terest on the same up to the present lime.
!. .. 400 dollars, 500 dollars for services as
! Clerk. And what has he received tor his
: services as Sheriff. Elected in 1852, when
\ his present term expires he will have held
: the office ten years. Say il is worth $4,000
l. wear, tor nine years, $4,000; interest up
I to this time, IS 400. making IN all upwards
II S2S 900 our Sheriff has received Tor pub
lie services, as Clerk and Sheriff.
The sheriff il over-wOked - well as over
pad. He has 10 employ a Tax Collector.
: Mr. Balm acting in that capacity. tie has
u 10 employ number Of deputies; sometimes
two deputies III one Consiable's District.
WHY 50 many deputcsS Because Of more
:. business than the Sheriff can do.
!. Upon reflection don't think II would be
n 1 bad idea 10 have two Tax Collectors Tor
\, the county, lust as we have two Census tax
In ers. As proof that il is good law as we'll
NJ ~ d popular law, there are hundreds ofmen
h. 10 the county who are willing TO take the OIL
flee Of Sheriff without collecting the tax ;
!. aud there are hundreds who are willing TO
ba lake the ofhce oi Tax Collector without
coupling the Office Of sheriff with i. Either
! ii the Offices will pay we'll. and should be
~. separated. Il is better that many citizens
n. should m.ke little BY performing public
y. duty. Than that few should grow oyer-rleh.
have ONLY justified the act. As TO lis
!. being unconstitutional. that question was
=, never raised in the Legislature, where we
~ had Rx. Governors, Rx-Judges, and distln-
w guished Lawyers. II never occurred 10 any
"a one that an aei directing how the public rev.
enue II twenty countise chould be collected
~ and paid into the pablic Treasury was PR
~. yate act. Judge Badger and Mr.. Moore
m. were written 10 during our County Courl To-
NJ. their opinion: both 81 them said Il was
!, ;. publ.c local law" 0pe Of them said ih'
N, County Court vas bound TO execute the law
IS. whether II sss Constitutional or nneonstitu
os tional.
u. Inc Legislature violated The Constitution
n. tsry often last winter. and does 20 ever,
~ Session, IL this act j. unconstitutional. W
ird repealed al act abolish,ng Jury trials 10
=, burke county. heard read 10 our Count
w. Court decision u the Supreme Court. iha
H. 1T IorbiIding the cutting and telling
-. timber IN a creek IN a particular county va
WI ~, private but public act. u that =
ha, 80. !, MAJ be public ,et TO appoint a Ia
~. Cole or. and our County Court has ialle
10 INTO an error ID declaring the act prisat
the one.
MIA Hoping that III, good people Of Ofang
IN. ma, never have any greater cause OF con
NJ. plant against their Representatives, the
r,ny he appointment Of Tax Collector,
Al / remain, very truly.
Your obedient sersant,
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