The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-07-30
THE COST OF NEGRO GOVERN
MENT IN LOUISIANA.

Further extracts from Act 80, approved
10th March, 1871: Mileage Of Board Of State
Engineers, S2250 for salary of commissions
ers--three, under Acts and p Of ISL
these are the Levee Commissioners, $4,000.
Judicial Department. Salary of Judge OF
Supreme Court, s35, 500 salary Of District
Judges Sl25, 900 salary of reporter, $500 F;
of Judge of Superior District Court, $4,000 ;
Superior Criminal Court, $1,000 Of Parish
Judges Sl32 900; District Attorney, $4,000 ;
additional compensation, $1,000; interpreter
First District Court, $1,000
| For attorney S fees in defense OF the Fund
ing bill, $40, 1000; W. w. Howe, to pay claim
approved by Auditor, $4,000 J. @. A. Fellows
and J. 3. Cotton, for legal services, $4,000 J;
Thomas J. Semmes, legal services, $4,000. As
the State has an Attorney General and Assist
ant Attorney General, these large fees, to an
ordinary comprehension, are unnecessary,
unless the official legal advisers are incom-
petent
Further appropriations for public printing
For otiici | advertisements in authorized
papers, SIS, 900. Here is another extraordi-
nary appropriation; we give the words in full:
For all printing and advertising. authorized by
law previous to the LIST day of January, 1874,
the necessary amount is hereby appropriated.
Is it possible such vague and indefinite appro-
priation, of the peoples money can be held to
be legal? To pay the East Feliciana Tribune
and Dunn Leaier for printing l.ws and deln-
quent tax lists, $1,000; to Blackburns Homer
Hiad, approved by Auditors Attorney, $500.
This must lie an approval by the recent imp TT
ed attorney by the Auditor. Appropriation for
printing bonds, under the funding bill, S2O,-
900; appropriation for stationery, for registra-
ton and elections, etc, S25, 900. We think t
would be safe to bet that the Times gets tbs
snug sum.
Cost OF the army Adjutaht General o.
State, $4,000; armories and keepers of the
same, $500: pay roll and expenses of metro
politan brigade, $4,000; more funds for his
upon the warrant of the Governor, be appro-
priated for the State militia; appropriation to
cover deficiencies now existing and due, le-
manning unpaid TOR the maintenance Of the
militia and the State, payable upon the approved
accounts of The Governor, the necessary daouat
is hereby appropriated. What can the people
think Of such an appropriation Can my one
divine the amount that will be approved by
the Governor? The sinews of war may lurk |
in this underlined appropriation. To pay for
uniforms OF the second and third regiments Of
State N t onal Guards, s14, 500.
The State IS good client. Appropriation
to pay costs Of courts where the State loses
the case, $4,000; TO pay costs of seizure
where sales Of property We're not effected, !
$4,000; to parish recorders for recording lists
Of lands forfeited to the State, 5000; for
costs Of seizures and sales where property is
bid in by the State $4,000. Fees of recor-
1ers. parish surveyors and costs of surveying
where property has been sold to the State,
$4,000. G. C. Sauvinet ex-Clvil Sheriff. Tor
costs in State suits, Sl7,9O3
For the payment, etc, OF the General As
,embly of the State, Sl3S 900.
We think this is sufficient to open the eyes
IF taxpayers. If the expenses Of al State
Governments are similar, then the charge OF
English statesmen that republican govern
nents re the most expensive form Of govern
nent is strictly correct.