The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-10-30

Land COmnI1@~iunC 24O0 90
For expenses Board OF
school Land C0ln......... COO 90
FOR state Librarian. Coo 60
For Clerk supreme Court,
per aIviI-- $40 90
or Jalttor--- l@bd o.
For rcnt.-.-..--....-..- 4cVb 90
Observation-Disclosures. 1880 90
Reduction Observation-Disclosures. $3.50 -
10 accomplish which reduction OF
eXpenceS it is recommended that the
salary of the Private Secretary of the
Governor be reduced to $500 per an
mum, for which purpose 4 bill has
already been Introduced.
That tile compensation of the Sec
retary OF State be reduced to s., 100
per annum. for which purpose also Il
bill has been introduced.
That the salary of the State Treasur-
or remain as by recent action OF the
Legislative Assembly it has been fixed.
at $500 per annum. and no additional
sum whatever be allowed him.
That the Clerk or agent OF the Board
of school Land Commissioners be paid
an annual salary of 300 aud no
more. for which purpose also has bill
been introduced.
That sections and 81 Of ehapter 30
or the miscellaneous laws be repealed,
for which purpose bill IS herewith
submitted.
That the umexpended balance of
appropriations. heretofore made for
clerical aid, maps and other expenses
connected with the lands of the State.
be returned to the funds for which they
We're respectively appropriated.
That the salary OF the State Libra
rian be reduced to $500 per annum,
for which purpose bill has been in
troduced.
That the ltw regulating the COM
pensation of the Clerk OF the supreme
Court be so amended that such Clerk
shall receive nothing whatever from
the State, except the per diem now al
lowed him by law. with Which he is
amply compensated for his services,
by the fees he is by law allowed to
collect from litigantS.
That the Secretary of State be direc-
ted to employ a person to do all the
work pertaining to Il ianitor, required
by the State, ut Il price not exceeding
5000 per annum, and that he allow no
more than such sum for such work.
That the law authorizing the Secre-
tary OF State to rent rooms for the use
OF the State be so amended As to limit
lilC tA AtBtiltttIltIt 1OI SltCi1 BttHilO>C 10
81. 600 per annunl. for which purpose
Il bill is herewith submitted.
Your Committee has not examined
into the details of the management of
the Penitentiary. leaving that for the
Special Committee appointed for such
purpose. but find generally. that the
expense OF such Penitentiary TO the
State during the last two fiscal years.
in excess of all income TO the State
therefrom. is about 500 900.
That said institution can and should
be conducted by iudiciou>ly leasing
the convict labor and confning it with
in the prison palisades. ut an expense
to the State in excess of receipts there
from for two years. of not more than
100000. thereby making a reduction
Of $4,000.
That the expense to the State of
conveying the convicts to the Peui-
Tertiary and insane TO the Asylum,
during the last two fiscal years. has
been about $4G.G coo. which. i'll the
opinion of the Committee, may be re-
dHccd by the enactment of laws for
which bills have been already intro
duced. allowing to Sheritls for such
services. only *3 per day for time
actually and necessarily employed.
and the amount of their actual and
necessary trave.ing expenses i'll con-
veying cOnvictS to the Pcnitentiary
and Asylum aud returning therefrom,
to the sum. for the ensuing two years,
OF $50, coo. thzrcby makinga reduction
of about so, COO. making the grand
total of the reduction proposed, $l21,-
$50 -.
TO bring about the iudicious leasing
of the convict labor, as above mem
toned. Il bill is being prepared by the
Committee and will be presented at tan
early day.
The above report should have APP
peared last week, but through an over
sight it did not. We publish it this
week as matter of future reference.
Mr.. Charles Harris Phelps. 4 young
lawyer in New ork, who is cIlronicled
by the New York papers As swimming
the Ilellespont, it appears is n Boston
boy. Il son of c. A. Phelps. The feat
was performed August %. Mr.. Phelps
was followed by an English and
Turkish gentleman in u boat. The
river is about mile wide in direct
iiue, but the rapidity of the current,
eight or nine miles an hour, renders
the distance about four miles. Byron.
on the 81 of May. 1910, swan across
from Abydos to Sestos, but it is Il feat
seldom achieved