The Shasta courier., 1866-01-20

months ending December 3lst, 1865:
Charles Mcdonald, Clerk. sl43l so
Geo. D. Forbes, Recorder. ........... 13l7 30
Notary Public.... 60 90
J. W. Garden, Tax Collector. 3Gl9 60
". E. Hopping, Sheriff 1856 73
ii. 4. Curtiss. Not. Pab.-l2 mos. 26 so
Felix Tracy, Treasurer-mil "A 90
z. Gilhooley, Constable -. 49,. 10 -
And for the benefit Of officials who have
not filed sworn statements with the County
Clerk, We publish the lst and 4th sections
of An Act to provide for aseertaining the
amount of Fees paid to certain Officers" "
approved April 1st, lS64-Statutes Of 1863
4, page 277:
SECTION l. From and after the first day Of
July next every Sheriff, County Clerk,
County Treasurer, County Recorder, County
Auditor, Justice Of the Peace, Constable Tax
Collector, Court Commissoher, and Notary
Public, authorized by law to receive any fees
for official services for himself or Deputies
shall keep fee book in which he shall enter
an exact and full account in detail of all fees,
commissions, or compensations, OF whatever
kind, by him or his Deputies earned, collect
ed, or chargeable. with the date, the name Of
the payer. if paid, ard the nature of the
service in each case. Within two weeks after
the close Of his official term he shall deposit
said book in the Office of the Clerk of the
Board of Supervisors Of the county IN which
he held his Office In the first week of Janu-
arv and July respectively in every year he
shall file in the office of the Clerk of the
Board of Supervisors a sworn statement in
writing of the amount Of fees earned, collect
ed. or chargeable by him or his Deputies for
official services during the six calendar
months ending on the last day of the previous
month If any person shall hold more than
one office. he may keep a separate fee book
for each office, and may make separate state
ments for each, or he may keep joint fee
book and make joint statements. at his dis.
cretion The Clerk of the Board Of Sppervi-
sors Of the several counties of this State are
hereby required respectively to make an
abstract Of the amount of fees returned to
him as having been earned, collected, or
chargeable, by the respective officers named
in this section, and shall forward the same,
duly sworn and certified to. to the Secretary
of State, in the month of January of every
year, to be by him filed in his Office
SEC. 4. If any officer should refuse or will
fully neglect to keep fee book. or to deposit
said fee book, or to file any sworn statement
as required in this Act, he shall be deemed
guilty of misdemeanor, and on conviction
shall be punished by fine not to exceed two
hundred dollars, and by a sentence of re-
moyal from Office, if ne should be in Office at
the date Of sentence.
PAY OF 0rrIcIALs.-Some time since we
printed an article recommending a reduction
in the emoluments of official positions, argu-
ing that such measure would do more To-
wards purifying the ballot box. and be more
generally conducive to good morals, than any
other legislation having for its aim the same
end. The article referred to was copied with
approval by most Of the loyal plpers Of the
State We did not then know of the good
authority we had to hack us up in our posi-
ton. The Folsom Telegraph gives the fol-
lowing extract from the Constitution Of that
loyal and reliable old State, Vermont, whose
people o-day are better educated, more
moral, and more Independent than any
except her immediate neighbors and have no
doubt been made so by following the spirit Of
the subioned extract:
As every freeman, to preserve his indie
to have some profession calling. trade or
farm, whereby he can honestly subsist, there
can be no necessity for nor use in establish
ing Offices Of profit the usual effects Of which
are dependence and servilitv. unbecoming
freemen. in the possessors or expectants, and
faction, contention and diScord among the
people. But if any man is called into the
public service, to the preju judice Of his private
affairs. he has right to Il reasonable COM
pensation; and whenever an Office, through
increase of fees or otherwise, becomes so
profitable as TO occasion many to apply for
it, the profits ought to be leSsened by the
Legislature.
Let our laws be framed in keeping with
such precepts, and our children educated and
provided in accordance with them, ,.and there
will be less wrangling for Office among
adults, and fewer candidates for the Reform
School among our youth.
MORE SEVERE PuNIsHMENTs Required
1t would seem that there are committed
offences for which the law affords no pun
ishment adequate to the crime. There are
now before our Courts two men-well in
years-charged with the horrible crime of
criminal intercourse with their own daugh-
ters We have laws to punish the crime Of
incest, it is true, but the penalties provided
are not sufficiently severe for so terribly
shocking a crime Emasculation, and brand
ing the letter . |" on each cheek, would be
mild punishment for such horrid offence
We hang murderers, yet for their crimes
they have the excuse of natural desire for
retaliation and revenge we imprison thieves
and burglars for years and for life, though
possibly most of them can urge want as a
partial excuse for their crimes. But for
such incestuous outrages as those TO which
we have alluded, no excuse whatever can be
offered. Those guilty of such offences,
though gifted with human reason, shame
the brutes by their disgusting bestiality.-
As such crimes are the most shocking and
disgusting known, their punishment should
be the most severe and startling. Those
committing them should be mutilated and
branded, and thus kicked and buffeted about
through life by mankind, as things unfit to
rest on earth and too debased fer admission
into the internal regions CAL.
PATENTS lssuED.-Patentsh have been issped
from the General Land Office to the Pacific
Railroad Company for several hundred tban.
sand acres OF land ON this side the Sierra