Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1884-12-10
be audited in less time than It took the

be audited In less time than Il took the
auditors last year or this.
Inc jury commissioners for several
years liked their own salary at s427 so,
aud this amount was made up as follows /:
There are 81 districts In the county, aud
" was estimated that three days was about
the time required for each district to
seioct names for jury duty. That made
III days, and the pay charged was g. so
per day. The truth of the matter is that
the lists OF jurors from nine tenths Of the
districts are furnished to the commits
sioners and nothing like this number Of
days are actually employed. Under the
new law $3.50 per aunum is the compensa-
tiop, and 1t Ia good pay.
Under the old system of per diem nav. In
vogue rs to the prison inspectors and poor
directors the salary Of these officials were
on an average about sl25. Under the now
law the poor directors will get $3.50 per
year. The prison inspectors were entirely
forgotten In arranging the salaries, under
the new law, and they will be paid as
heretofore.
The recorder OF deeds aud county solicit
tor will come under the provisions Of tho
salary act, at the expiration of the term of
the present iucumbents, January 1, 1886
THE coRosER's EMoLuMENrs.
Inc law as to the coroner merely hxes
his salary at $1,000. and under the pro
visions of the act he must earn that
amount before he can draw IL, All
the ices the coroner can make out OF
one case is "a 12 for viewing the body, en-
panelling the jury aud qualifying them,
| aud 20 cents for each witness examined.
The average number of witnesses is four.
That would make s5. 12, and to earn his
| salary he would have to hold nearly 900
inquests year, or twice as many held by
Coroner Shiffer and his deputies.
The practice during the past was for
the deputies to pay the coroner a. for each
inquest held by them. When IL was
mentioned above that all the coroner could
make legitimately out of case was s5.12,
| 1t is understood that more tnan that sum
was made. The juors under the law are
entitled to 81 each, and that amount the
| coroner collects from the county. The
rule is for the coroner to pay his iuors 5C
cents, That adds $3 to the s5.12 Their
it Is also customary for the physician
to make a present TO the coroner
OF say about 90 out of tho sl(
received by him, for looking at the bod,
and stating the cause of death.
Under the new law the opinion is general
that jurors will have to draw their own
pay. This cuts off % from the ooroner's 8
fees In each case. 1t won't pay the coro
ner to 90 to some parts of the county tc
| hold inquests, and how he will arrang,
with deputy and ut the same tim,
comply with the law, 10 a question which
time alone will solve.
| CoUNsELLoR EBERLY GETS HIS SALARY
| The district attorneys office was the
first one affected by the new law. Thu,
far that officer has earned over o., 500
with this weeks court to be added. Al
his salary Is $4,000 the county will saw,
several hundred dollars this year.
A lively time 10 expected when th,
commissioners, auditors and severa
| county officers meet to fiI the salary O
the deputies and clerks. In some of th,
| offices high salaries will be asked for. A,
the commissioners have been paying thei
clerk 81 900 per year, that will be abou
the amount asked for the salary Of the
deputies in the several offices. For tn,
clerks the salary will no doubt be fixed a
sum hundred or two under that figure