Delta chief., 1885-08-26

lHE attentlOn OI tuN-puNcFs DI tnls
county is called to the fact that Delta county
is illegally, uselessly and needlessly, annual
ly paying out for salaries to county officers
the sum of clepen hundred dollars, money
taken out of your pockets and going into the
pockets of the County Clerk, County Judge
and County Attorney.
The laws of this State provide that in no
county of the third class shall the County
Clerk receive more than sir hundred doitars
year, in warrants, for acting as clerk Of the
Board of County Commissioners. Our pres
ent County Clerk is receiving nine hundred
d0iidrs q year, clear give away Of your
money to the amount Of three hundred dol
lars year.
Our County Attorney receives n salary of
three hundred dollars a year. County Com
missioners are not required to appoint a
county attorney, but they may do so, they
have the power to do so. The County Com
missioners OF other counties as small as this
get along without salaried county attorney
and save that much to the taxpayer. This
county can and should do the same, and by
80 doing save the taxpayers another three
hundred dollars per year.
Our County Judg. receives salary OF fee
hundred dollars per year, and for what, He
charges aud receives fees and compensation
land is entitled to do sol for every act or ser.
vice he pcforms county judge or clerk Of
the county court What then is this salary
for, will be asked. II there are no compe-
tent men in this county who will accept the
Office Of county judge for the fees and p.rqui.
sites of the office, without being paid salary
o: a-e hundred dollars year for doing 80,
We had better import men who will. BE.
side the regular business of the Office, the
County Judge. as clerk of hi. own court, is
permitted to take final proof for pre- .emption,
for which he receives si5 for each final proof
made before him. which alone Of itself is
sufficient recompense to induce competent
men to seek the Office. The law provides
shat the County Commissioner shall allow
the county judge no salary If his fees and
compensation amount to the sum Of Eve hun.
dred dollars per annum. Doc. any taxpayer
for = moment think that tae fees and compen.
sation Of the judge Of Delta county amounts
10 less than Eve hundred dollarss II IL docs
not amount to less, is not the salary paid II.
legally paid? II /, does amoun, to less, it Is
usclcssIy and need,es.ly pad.
How long will the taxpayers Of this coun.
~ continue to pay these Illegal, useless and
needless salaries, amounting to eleven hun.
drcd dollars per annum. Voters, 1t is for
you to say. Decide at once, and then by
your actions at the primaries and at the
polls DO your part in putting stop TO this
eStravagancc. You cannot rxpec, that these
official. are quietly going to rciinquish their
grasp upon your pockets. They will not do
it. They will hang like teaches, and unlike
Isechcs the fuller they get the closer will
they hang aud be the harder to pull away.
United action ON the part of the voters at
ili, time will save Delta from an overwbeln.
ing debt similar TO which 40 many other Col.
orado eountie. are burjcncd with. Another
year our debt will be increasing two thousand
dollars = month instead of one. Another
year will be too late. Now is the time, and
the primaries and the polls are the places.