The Daily clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1866-1888, 1875-01-07

~ponSi0IltY VIII ne small, II the county
levies are restrained us are hereinafter
asked for.
The fees Of the Chancery and Circuit
clerks and Sheriff are too high, aud We
are sorry to add, in many instances, are
very much increased by exorbitaEt and
illegal charges. We ask that this subject
be carefully looked into by the Legisla
ture, and the rates so fixed, that whilst a
fair and just compensation is allowed for
these services, the burdens OF the sutton
shall not be SO great as they now are
And We suggest that the State, Ike the
United States, will fix poin in com
pensation of county Ulcers, beyond which
the fees shall 90 into the State Treasury.
In many counties this point might be
/ fixed at $500, in Others 1t 81 900 or $1,000,
! but III no instance should it be fixed be-
You'd 1000 for clerks, and s., 800 for
sheriff including their gains as Tax col
Iectors.
The jail fees are a great burden on the
people; they are now too high; and vet
III many instances extra compensation is
allowed by the Board Of Supervisors
They should be fixed at the cost of a
plain and healthy support of the prisoners
Imprisonment in the county jail rs pun
ishn ent should be made less frequent
Uni rtunatel Y many who are guilty Of
petit misdemeanors feel neither the bur
den lor the disgrace Of imprisonment IN
the county jail. We leave it to the wis
dom Of the Legislature to devise some
= other mode of punishment, which, with
: out mtiicting corporal pain or bringing
forward any badge Of slavery, may yer
: prove more eficJcious in reforming often
ders, and be less expensive TO the tax
payers.
The law also should require the
convicts, sentenced to the penitentiary, &c
5 be immediatr Y removed to the State
: prison. They are now, in many instances
left in the county jaiIs ior many months
+ to the great cost of the several counties
r The jail fees for i day should not exceed
2 80 cents.
+ The salaries Of Inspectors OF the Peni
Tertiary ought to be saved to the State
nv imposing the very light duties Of these
: utiicts on other State officers, or on com
petent citizens without salaries.
, The trustees Of the Insane, Deaf anC
+ Dumb and Blind Asylums should be pro
: hibited from using any of the funds ap
. propriated to these Institutions, in tn
way Of salaries or fees to themselves.
: The appropriations to the State Uni
II versties are beyond the means of tn
} State to pay, and beyond the necesSitie
u Of these institutions.
The salaries and mileage paid to tn
i L !
Il prohibited. The duties of these officer
y are extremely light and highly honorable
like services of all other institutions c
Z learning in the State, and Throughout
, the Union, ARE rendered blythe best citizen
)" without compensation.
~ Again the expenditure of the State
money-poor rs the people are-and |;
boring under .he most crushing taxatio
\ -f0r,the board and support Of certai
>. students, is wrong. The State is undt
~ no obligation to furnish these favored te
; with what is denied to the children Of tn
State at large. The State supposes sh
) discharges her duty to the great mass
y her children, when she furnishes schOo
u free Of tuition for four months in the yea
/ These schools are for the people at large
e. the colleges and universities are for til
~ more fortunate few. Not more than or
~ in a thousand, even in the most favOre
ne countries, ever 90 to college, 1t is wrOn
IL that nine hundred and ninety nine Shout
II be burdencd with taxation so crushin
at that they are deprived, in many instance
Il Of the means OF even going to u commo
OF school-in order that one fortunate perso