Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1874-04-16
Salaries of Belmont Comfy OF
ficers.

We have noticed in number of our
exchanges, an item, taken from GER
tain paper of this county. purporting to
be statement of the amount of salary
received by the officers of the County
of Belmont for the year, ending the
1st Monday, Sept. 1873, which, while
it may have been taken from certain
reports required to be made by County
officials, is very far rfrom the true state
ment of the amount actually received
as salaries by them.
In order that the public may be no
longer misled, we publish a statement
which may be relied on as showing the
net cash realized by the County officers.
RECORDER.
Amt of fes received, 1851
Paid out for clerk hire 302
Net compensation received $1255
Due and unpaid So
Total 1343
TREASURER.
Amt fees col. on duplicate $3251 ,13
Amt fees for receiving and pay
out moneys not collected on
duplicate 1898
Total received fer year 1881 ,96
Amt paid out for clerk hire 53l 90
Net compensation received S2S5O,96
Salary of SHERIFF for eight months
prior to Sept. l, 1873:
Amt reed from litigants sl1ss,94
Amt allowed and paid out OF
County Treasury, in criminal
cases, for keeping Jail, board
ing criminals, &C., 4o4,2O
Total amount received 1643,l4
Amt due and unpaid $l6l4,4
Amt paid for salary of Clerks
and deputies, exclusive oft
cling expenses 6'o,oU
Actual amount paid for travel
niles s 422,OO
Total expenses forS months 1907, 90
Leaving q net balance in the
hands of the Sheriff, for his
months. Of s54G, 90
We have consulted with several eX-
Sheriffs, in reference to the per cent.
which is realized of costs remaining
due and unpaid year after the final
disposition of cause, ard in no event
has it been put at more than 25 to 30
per cent. Giving, then, the present
Sheriff the benefit of the highest per
cent. unusually received, he would
realize, in from five to twenty years,
about $500, from costs remaining I'M
paid, which amount, if added to that
received within reasonable time,
would make him salary i'apgospectire
of slO46, of which only four hundred
and fitty-four dollars and twenty cents,
was paid out of the County Treasury.
CLERK of the Court of Common Pleas
for year.
Amount Of fees received from
litigants S2044,t5
Ami of fees received f,om Go
Treas. and other sources 270,oC
Total amt actually received 2315, ,4j
Amt maid for Clerk hire 440,0C
Net salary received $1915, Al
Amt of fees due and unpaid $l07e sc
about one-fifth of which, or sl35 will
i'm the lapse of time be paid, making
the entire yearly salary of Clerk s2O5O, 4;
PROBATE JUDGE for six months.
Amt received $1049, 2e
Amt due and unpaid 9l9, IL
Amt allowed, by or still due to
previous Judge within the
year (estimated) l600,OU
Amt paid for clerk hire, etc. 10000
Net compensation for year $1,000, AZ
OF the amount remaining due and I'M
paid. about four hundred dollars will
remain unpaid, so that the actual salary
for the year when it is all received will
be $685., ,4e.
Of this amount, only about 5000, is
paid out of the County Treasury as fees
for record of Births and Deaths, costs
in Criminal and Insane cases, &c.
The Prosecuting Attorney received
s935 90 for services within the year.
Regarding the salary of the Auditor
we shall have something to say at an
other time.
1T will be readily seen that in most
ofthe offices the salary is sufficient, but
that it must also be considered that
in some Of them expenses are heavy,
AS in case of the sheriff. But compare
lively small proportion OF these sal
aries, as an examination of the above
will show, is drawn from the County
Treasury-it is collected from litigants
and from those having business in the
various offices. More anon.