The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1878-09-11
THE PAY OF NEW YORK JUDGES.
From sixty.ave to Two Hundred and Six
teen Dollars Per Day. ~
The Gnphic.

55 teen Dollars Per Day.
The Graphic. } i.-1't
Eighty.six dollars an hour! That surely
is not bad pay; but this appears to have
been the rate at which his Honor Charles
P. DAILY, Judge Of the Court OF Common
Pleas, in the City Of New York, has been
rewarded for his eminent services on the
bench. His salary is fifteen thousand dol
lars a year; during the year he sat on FL
days in the Trial Term,47 days in the Gen
eral Term, and 10 days in Chambers.
Thus during the year OF 3l3 working days
he sat 81 times; and for each sitting he
was paid one hundred and seventy two
dollars. The Common Pleas open at ele-
ven o'clock and the sessions on circuit and
trial terms averageabout 8! hours per day,
certainly not more than four: The Cham
Der business does not average more tlan
two hoursa day. So that when his Honor
Charles p. DAILY was sitting in Trial or Gen
eral Term, he receieed not less than forty
three dollars an hour, whea In Chambers
he was paid at the rate Of eighty six dol
lars an hour.
But his Honor C. P. Daily is no better
paid than the majority OF his twenty four
honorable colleagues OF the Supreme, SUI
perior, Common Pleas, Marine and Crimi-
nal Courts--he Is not paid SO well as some
OF them. They all do i!
From list in the Albany Lar Journal,
showing the number OF days in which the
Judges held court during theycar ending.
June 30, 1878, Is compiled a statement
showing the amount which cneb Judge re-
ceiyed per each days presence on tho
bench. The highest amount received was
by Judge Noah Davis, OF the Supreme
Court, two hundred and sixteen dollars,
and the lowest by Henry Alker, Of the
Marine Court, sixty five dollars per day.
The whole twenty seven Judges have
held court for 1913 days, an average OF n
little more than ITO days for each. But In
Justice TO these hard worked and INSULT
GENTLY paid Judges, It should be born In
mind that Judge holding General Term,
Special Term or Chambers llas some study
to do out OF court, o labor from which the
Judges holding circuit and jury terms arc
generally exempt. These latter terms be-
yin at half past ten 4. NJ, close at four,
with a half hour intcrmission for lunch.
The Common Pleas and Superior Courts
open Of eleven and continue at the long
est until three p. ". The Chamber bust
ness OF tho Superior and Common Pleas
Judges averages not two hours day; that
Of the Supreme Judges not more than five
hours. In the figures given above thore
Ia said to be an omission OF perhaps 4sI
DAYS OF Chamber business, making total
Of about $3.50 days, or lS4 days to each
Judge. l..
The total salaries OF tho twenty-six Jud-
gcs are three hundred and fifty eight thou
sand dollars, and they received OH tho ar-
erage during the year the sum OF ninety
six dollars per day for each days work, In
Guiding oil tho Chamber business. The
salaries Of the Judges OF the different
courts arc rs follows: Supreme Court, SOW
enteen thousand five hundred dollars; su-
perior Court, fifteen thousand dollars; Ma
rine Court, eight thousand dollars; Crimi-
nal Court, twelve thousand dollars per an
nun.