Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1861-04-05
ENo. s. AN ACT
10 regulate and limit the Compensation
of County Auditors.

| VI COuLly AuuIIOFS.
SECTION l. Be 1t enacted by the Gene
raj Assembly Of the State Of Ohio, That
the several County Auditors in this
State shall hereafter receive compensa-
ton per annum for their services, as fol-
lows: In counties having, by the last
preceding enumeration Of male inhabi-
tants above the age of twenty years
taken under the authority of this State,
no more than two thousand four hun
dred such Inhabitants, the County -Au-
ditor shall receive nine hundred dollars
for each year; and in counties having
more than two thousand four hundred
such inhabitants, the Auditor shall re-
ceive the like sum respectively, and in
addition thereto shall receive for each
year the sum Of fifty dollars for each ad-
ditienal two hundred such inhabitants
above twenty-four hundred in such
county; such compensation to be paid
out of the county treasury on the order
Of the County Commissioners; provided,
that iu counties having, by the last pre-
ceding enumeration Of white male in
habitants over the age Of twenty -one
! years, more than six thousand such in
habitants, the County Commissioners
shall have power, and are hereby au-
thorized to make such additional allow
ance out of the Country Treasury an
nually for clerk hire,as they may deem
necessary and proper; and, also. shall be
county reasonable additional compen-
sation for extraordinary labor in the
years in which real estate appraiEements
are made whenever, in their opinion,
the compensation allowed by the rroyis-
ions Of this act is not sufficient to pay
for the same, and the compensation to
be allowed according to the provisions
Of this act to County Auditors, after the
taking Of any future enumeration of
white male inhabitants under the au-
thority Of this State, shall be as herein
established in every county according
to its population, as herein classified, as
ascertained from time to time by such
enumeration.
Sec. 2. The several County Auditors
Of this State shall he authorized to
charge and receive for their own use, in
addition to the compensation provided
for in section first Of this act, the follow
ing fees. viz: For certificate of sale of
school lands, TO De PAID by purchaser.
fifty cents; for certificate of payment of
installment into the Treasury on school
lands, to be paid by purchaser, twenty
five cents; for final certificate of pay
ment for school lands, to be paid by
purchaser, one dollar; for certificate Of
sale Of land for taxes, to be paid by the
purchaser, ten cents; for deed of land
sold for taxes, to be paid by the. pur-
CHASER, one dollar and twenty five cents;
for any entry or transfer of land for tax
alton, to be paid by persons requiring
the same, ten cents.
SEC. 3. The act entitled an act "to
regulate the fees of County Auditors"
passed March 10, 1888, and an act to
amend section thirty-one of an act en-
titlA "an act regulating the fees Of
County Auditors" passed March 80,
1850, is hereby repeated. Provided,
that nothing in this act shall be so con-
strued as to effect the compensation of
any Auditor now in, elected to, or may
be appointed previous TO October l, 1861,
to said office.
ED.>A PARROTT, Pro tenn.
Speaker Of the House of fRepresen tatives.
ROBERT G. KIRK,
President Of the Senate.
February Z, 1861.