Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1884-12-10

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judgment the number of deputies is too
few or the compensation fixed too small,
The salaries under the new law are as
| follows
District Attorney, $1,000.
Sheriff, $4,000.
Prothonotary, 50 900.
Clerk of orphans court, 5000.
Clerk of quarter sessions, $1,000.
Register of wills, 80 500
Recorder of deeds, 5000,
Treasurer, 81, 600.
| County surveyor, $3.50.
County commissioners, q, ,OGO ecah.
| County auditors, $3.50 each.
| County solicitor, $500.
Directors of the poor, $3.50 each.
| Jury commissioners s250 each.
| Prison keeper. $1,000.
| Coroner, $1,000.
| NOT POPULAR IN THE ROW.
| The county officers. elect are not at all
favorable to the new law. Their prefer
ence all the time is the old fee system. A
clerk in one OF the offices remarked iu the
hearing OF a representative of the INrELLI
GENCER that it would take the time of one
clerk in each office to keep the itemiz ed
accounts and the reports required for the
| inspection of the county auditors
The offices of sheriff and prothouotary
are closely allied. Nearly ali the business
OF the former office comes from the latter
office, The prothonotary has the advan
tage of the judgments annually entered,
aud the sheriff the advantage of serving
| the jury notices and the sales of real estate
and personal property. These offices will
be most affected by the new law, inasmuch
as strict construction requires that all
! fees shall be payable in advance. The
| practice IN the prothonotsry's office has
been to take chances Of getting the fees In
civil suits entered, except in actions of
| slander and divorce. As slauder cases
| seldom reach jury trial, the precaution
| is now taken of collecting in advance the
fees for entering the suits and serving the
writs. Where these offices will be affected
dollars for necessary fees, win rerIect
whether it is policy to throw good money
| away in az effort TO recover a doubtful
claim lnder the old fee system pro-
| thonotaries and sheriffs did not have their
official business settled up for several
years after their terms expired. Under
the new law as they can only draw their
salaries after they have earned them, the
demand for fees in advance will be their
| only safety. Unless the business of these
officers greatly increases during the terms
| OF Messrs. Skiles and Tomlinson, as com
pared with the business of the present
year, they will not be able to draw more
| than half the salary named in the act, for
the very good reason that the receipts of
the offices will not allow them any more.
Take the sheriff's Office. There are two
deputies to be paid regularly, and very
frequently third has to be employed.
At least two horses will have to be kept,
and the travelling expenses OF tho sheriff
and his deputies will amount TO q large
sum and are all deducted from the fees
earned before the sheriff can draw dollar
OF his salary.
In the prothonotary's office the same
number of clerks will be asked for as are
at present employed. When common
pleas court is In session, it requires the
service Of two clerks. That leaves one
alone in the office. The present prothono
tary devoted his whole attention to the
office and If Prothonotary Skiles wants to
get along with three clerks, he will have
to put in all his time at the office.
iToNER HAS PUDDING.
The registers office is the pleasa ntest
in the row of county offices. For years the
practice of demanding fees In advance
has been in force in this office, and when
the term of the register expires, he can
pick up his hat, walk ont, and has not the
trouble of collecting back standing
amounts. Register Stoner will ask for
two clerks, and he says he will be able to
show to the board that they are necessary.
1t ia his intention to attend to all the
routine office business, such as proving
wills, granting letters, filing accounts,
etc. His clerks will do all the transcript
ing OF wills. accounts, eto. The fees of
this ofhce will pay two clerks and the
salary of the register, and there will be q
handsome amount to the credit of the
registers office at the end of his term.
The county treasurer receives n salary
Of 50, 600. II he employs q deputy he has
to pay the salary Of the deputy out of his
compensation. Treasurer Grider proposes
to save the salary of the deputy by attend.
ing TO the duties OF the office himself.
The clerk OF the orphans court will
about make his salary and that Of his
deputy.
The present clerk OF the quarter ses.
sions did not deem 1t necessary to have
deputy. During quarter sessions court
weeks he was assisted by his son. Capt.
Settley, tine clerk elect, will remove to this
city in the spring having leased the County
house. AS that hotel is within calling dis |
tanoe OF his office, he will probably di- !
vide bis time between the two places. His |
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office is run properly.
This Office will also make q good show |
ing at the end of the term, IL business |
keeps as good as it has been. In addition |
to the quarter sessions business, this office |
has the benefit OF all the hotel and |
restaurant licenses granted, and as they
number several hundred, the fees from \
this source will more than pay the deputy. |
THE COMMISSIONERS OFFICE.
The new law requires that the county
shall meet twice q week.
As their salary is only 81, 900, which in.
,ludes mileage, 1t is safe to say that they
will only meet twice week. The practice
has been for several years to meet three
lines week. Under the old system the
pay was s3 for each day In session and
mileage.
The county auditors under the new law
eceiye a salary of $3.50. 1t is safs to bet
hat the accounts Of the county officers,
magistrates and constables will hereafter