The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1876-01-14

As assiAsas elsewhere, il will be seen that the
Board q Supervisors, OF their session last
phex, CT Court Reporter. ct tho SUM Of six
hundred dollars per year for this, Van Buren,,
county. That officer had been receiving nearly
tweavo hundred dollars per year in monthly in
stsllnOnts from the County Treasury. The
oKact amount paid last year, as shown by the
report Of the committee published elsewhere,
was one thousand one hundred and eleven dol
lars, Decades the Eve hundred and seventy-two
doalars paid FOR reporting the Matteson trial at
Centrcvfhe, in st. Joseph county. During the
same period he received from Kalamazoo county
che sum OF eight hundred and eighty-nine dol
lars Cor Salary, without taking into account the
amounts charged for copies for the use o.
partiea 70 cults.
1t ~ evident, from some things which have
cometo tse surface, that an erroneous impress
Zion has gone abroad in regard to the power OF
Boards OF Supervisors over the compensation
60 -be pad FOR the services OF this ofhcer. 1t
has been maintained that after 4 Board OF
SUPERVISORS bad consented to the employment
OF a stenographer, they thereafter had no con-
troll oyor the matter and the Circuit Judges
proceeded toiapportion salary OF two thousand
dollars emong the several counties OF circuit
on the basis of suits commenced during the
preceding YEAR This was done in pursuance
of,the law which prescribed this mode, in case
the .Bosrds Of Supervisors had neglected to fix
Che amount to be paid by their county.
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the law on this subject is, and that we do not
misre,Tesent it, we publish In this connection
80 much OF the law as applies to the case under
consideration. The first section OF the act
creating this new Office Is as follows:
Ssc. 1. The people of the State of Michigan
enact, That a Stenographer for the Circuit
Court for the County Of Wayne shall be APP
pointed bv the Governor, on the certificate or
the Judge OF said Court, that the business OF
said Court is such as to render the employment
otrs 6tenographer desirable.
Section two provides that such stenographer
shall DC deemed an officer Of court and that
for cause the Governor may remove or suspend
him. Section three prescribes how vacancies
shall he Oiled. and section four prescribes the
dulles OF such officer. Section five 10 as
follows
SEQ. The stenographer appointed for the
County OF Wayne shall receive, as compensa-
ton, a salary OF two thousand dollars per an
nun, which shall be paid in monthly Install
meuia OIL of the County Treasury.
Section r,ix provides for tax upon the parties
TO III eu,t OF three dollars in each case, to go
into tho County Treasury to apply upon the
salary OF tue stenographer Section seven re-
lol-a nj
proceeding to exercise the duties of the office
Section oght provides that certain sections Of
afonner law shall not apply in charging and
instruchng iuries when stenographer is em-
ployed
Section oile is the one under which stenog-
raphers are employed outside of Wayne coun-
VI VIII be seen that Boards Of Supervisors
have full power over the matter OF the employ
mont and salary such officer shall, receive. The
section ID as follows:
SEC Any one OF more counties OF this
state being N the same circuit may, at any
time hereafter, cause this act TO become oper-
ative NJ euch county or counties, either united
with each other or IN any single county, by the
certificate or The Judge az provided in section
one Of Chs act. sent to the board Of superyls-
oTs OF such county or counties, and approved
by the mai Oritv vote OF the supervisors elected
III such county or countess and such board or
boards OF supervisors may fix the amount OF
salary 90 be paid by such county or counties to
such photographer; and such stenographer,
when appointed by the Governor shall be en-
titled 60 a gaiary so fixed, and nc more, and any
amount which may have been heretofore fixed
as such ealarS by such board or boards OF super
visors less than two thousand dollars, shall be
and 10 made binding under this act and such
stepograpbsr. when appointed, may enter upon
his duties under such salary so fixed.
And Sheu follows provlso providing that
when't be Boards of Supervisors have omitted
to fix<he amount Of salary the Circuit Judge
may -epporhon the same, at two thousand dol
lars, enong the counties forming the particular
circuit basipg such apportlonment to each
county on the number of suits commenced
therein during the preceding year.
There Is further proviso which refers only
TO tho zenith and eighteenth judicial circuits.
:Fromths above il will be seen hat the Boards
or.Supervisors have full and ample authority
TO 6x1be amount OF compensation, which the
stenogrnpher shall receive, or even dispense
with his services altogether. The action Of the
Board OF Supervisors in cutting down the salary
Tor THAI Office from over eleven hundred dollars
y, six hundred dollars, WAS an act Of retrench
mentin the right direction, and Will meet the
hearty endorsement and approval Of the tax
PAYNE people Of this county.