Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1879-02-13

COUNTY COMMISSIONERS.
Each Commissioner ~ day while actually employ.
ed, and cents per mile for distance actually tray eed
but he shall not have more than travel in the
same case, nor for service or travel than
petition or case at the same time.
SHERIFFs.
Compensation of Sherifs ~ for each days atten.
dance upon the ;. j. or the superior Courts.
JAILoRs
Jaors fees for commitment or discharge of pris-
oners 70 cents, and for the entire support of each
tody such sum not exceeding two dollars per week Ms
the County Commissioners shall judge reasonable.
Recorder Of Municipal Court ut Portland, $500.
Clerk hire for said Recorder, 500.
SrESoGEAYuERs.
Section l32 ofchaper 81 of the revised statutes. in
regard to the appointment Of Stcnographers in Court
is amended by making the pay of Stenographers
$3.50 per day instead of 50. The section amended
AT any term of the Supreme Judicial Court the
presiding justice may appoint stenographer to
port the proceedings thereof who shall be officer
If the court and be sworn To faithful discharge Of
his duty. Under the direction Of the court he shall
take full notes of all oral testimony and other pro
ceengS In the trial of causes including the charge of
the Juige-and furnish for the of the court a
fair lesble long hand copy of 30 much of his notes
the court directs. He shall receive for his ser.
vices from the treasury of the county in which the
court is held the sum allowed by the court, not
cec,ng $3.50 per day for attendance, & cents per
mile for actual travel, and ten cents for every one
hundred word, of the long hand copy furnished for
the use of the court. He shall also furnish a copy OF
by him either party at the trial requests. pay.
ment therefor by such party at the rate aforesaid
"DOctOring IA Commissioned Mares Nest.
newly tledged reformer, in haste to eat
his peek Of dirt, writes this stuff from Augusta
to the Portland Argus
DocToRING ACoMMIssIoSER-The records Of the
Secrctarys office show that the words "unless sooner
removed by the Governor have been erased from the
commission of Charles j. Talbot, Railroad Commits
sioner. As these words not stricken from the
commission of John +. Anderson another Commits
sioner. who Is democrat, Il would look as though
this was republican trick.
Now let us look at this reformer's statement
which has been copied into the democratic
sheet here. and see if this is not a wild goose
| Chase. The blank book in the Office of the
Secretary of State, in which commissions
are recorded, contains the words ''uHiess
sooaer lemored By the Gorera0r." But when
IL commission is recorded of a Judge of the
Supreme Judicial Court, or any other officer
where these words do not occur in the stat
utcs they are Arrays erased IN the record
| (unless possibly by oversight to make
the record conform to the commission
and the erasure in Mr.. Talbot's case was made
If the correspondent of the Argus will cast
his searching eye over the book he refers to
he will find it full of erasures.
| Republicans are not so freak. if so wicked
as to suppose that changing u record in the
office of the Secretary of State would hav,
any effect. one way or the other on commits
sion held by public officer. The iar gov
crns in all these cases.