, 1876-12-03
COUNTY COMMISSIONERS.
The Last Session of the Present
Board.
Fixing the Salaries of Officers
and Employees for the Year.
Rountree Goes Up, and Mills Assistant
Is Stricken Out.
Auditing q Number Of Bills..-Comm1s'
sioners' ay-Rol1-..The Humane
Society.

SlOnerS' ray y'NOll-''IAe auAano
Society.
The Much-Abused johnson Bids His Breth-
ren Farewell.
The Board of County Commissioners held an |
adjourned meeting yesterday morning to wind
up the year's business, this being the last scs-
sion OF the old ffteen,"-the places Of five, /
who retire, being taken on Monday BY those re-
Gently elected. President johnson occupied the |
chair, and all were present except Schmidt
THE PooR-uoUsE
A communication was received from John u.
Walsh, Acting Warden OF the Poor-House, call
ing attention to the crowded condition OF the
institution. The admissions are largely IN ex-
cess Of the discharges, and he thought it neces-
sary for the Board to act, that future arrivals
might be provided for. There had been received
thirty-tiye weekly for the past two months, and
there we're now on the premises o23 paupers.
Commissioner McCaffrey said he was at the
Poor-Ho1se Friday, and there was certainly
necessity for more accommodations. AS the
present Committee on Public Charities would,
however be non est after the Board adjourned,
he supposed the document would have to take
the usual course.
It was accordingly referred to the Committee
on Charities.
The Finance Committee reported favorably
on the payroll Of the County Clerks office for
November, amounting to s12, 2,41o16. Concur
red In.
SALARIES.
The same Committee, to whom was referred
resolution instructing them to fir the salaries
| Of nil county employees and officers for 1867,
reported a List Of salnries OF those whose eom-
pensation is not fixed BY statute.
! The only salaries increased are those OF Coun-
ty Attorney, from 5000 to 81, 900, the Clerk Of
the committees from 81, ,200to $500, and of of
| the Engineer Of the Insane Asylum from l,3oo
to $500. The reductions in the employees
States Attorney and Of nine bailitfs in the
| SherifT's department, while the increase is as
follows: Fifteen clerks for the abstract de-
| partment Of the Recorders Office Tecently or
ganized); messenger at $S60, for the County
Board; two watchmen at the jail at 5000 each;
| twcnty-four employees at the Insane Asylum,
ncccssitatcd by the enlargement; sixteen help
at the County Hospital; SIX clerks in the Col
lector's office; and half-a-dozen additional EN-
| ployes in other departments.
Commissioner Burdick was opposed to the
bringing in Of the report when there was not
time to act upon it. According to all the rules
OF parliamentary practice, q matter OF such
- i i1n.r.;++na 30 ~ IN Who1o when the salaries
I'm Go.ee m d ~ sna a r2or discr;ninatinn
cou5a pe useusseu ahu ~ Roard co,1d
haue pet"esai .'3 20 oaao oc+ on + nnder-
;ar,, not dGaa sne a''o ~ on~o "~'
etanuluSy. anu a+ u.,,,.r,-oa that h, +ha rceo1,,-
Inc FiGsuun5 Gnenther 1a ~ the Finance
f'o+ Gn+3t+a haI haan inetrncted In fjI the sala-
CoLnltee I nau psHn he ,nodo to thejr
r1es, anu No ~ 1S Ton,,njttne
report, whlen was aososaee aa +ha hno 1n4nes and
naa saNe ~ see havinp r snent two or
otneIs- attt,at1 - 1,d +Ss renort was
~ tlaG1 ros''lt mIt@J " ~ thsir ] lah6rs ~
| w Ta],,,;ee;onar Rnrdiclr +houoht fhe report
C1mmlss'oner ~ tiora+ed The Presidrnt,s
ooE;1on % yos a, owEwari nne. The idea that
posldon was an ~ aMk"u sIaas oa one T.; the hands Of
the n1!ng u ~ nass "as d tha ' Roard had
Ing EiaIee ~ Al 1th t5en, Was II IN conso
nonluS Elk ~ the ~ ch.racter of the Board that
nance Mi.n hs,,d sne ~ o. the ,an;s1atinrs
committee should az tne ieE,sat o;ttas hoe nover
tne aaae ~ hnt;ness for the Roard
~ ,mesoner w., i Ruq5clT cannot have power
coui1ies.ontt eto - ~ i.in1 - nnf sun.
TO acI III mhtLel oA 'n1e hi4iu' = ~ ~. 90"