Arizona weekly citizen., 1885-08-15

Road fund. d.............. 6.6S7 s5 l -Ss"4 .-.s.s. fOlttUO UD
 1885.
 General fund d...............s s23, ,304 93 Contingent fund .. 3,G64 l4 hOad tuud. d........-.......... 2,llO 94
 Total l.................... S29, ,0S0 O1
 The large amount of expenses on Con tirgent fund for 1885 is easily explained 5Y the advertising and printing of elec- ton blanks for the Calabasas Railroad Company, the publication of voluminous proceedings Of the Board Of Supervisors In that matter; also the purchase ef books and printing of blanks for the new county court, all of which bills are audited by law from that fund. GENERAL SALARY FUND.
 Amount received from Record
 CT, second quarter, 1885. .sI, ,025 10 Amount received from Probate
 Judge, second quarter. 1885 160 co Amount rec-Ived from SherIif,
 second quarter, 1885. 623 CJ Amount received from ClerK of
 County Court, second quar-
 ter, lsS5.................. 2J9 10 Amount received from Cleikof
 District Court, second
 quarter, 1885 s5............ 42s 10 I ssa a.. v
 Amount of salaries audited for the second quarter, 1885 for these officers is SI,IlO94, the Sl ,5y0 salary of county as- sessJr being included therein.
 Excess or salaries allowed by law over amounts turned in by the county off cials IS thus shown to be S5,2l4 O for the first three months of the operation of the General Salary Bill passed by the last legislature.
 l have made a careful examination of the fee books of the Sheriff, Recorder, | Probate Judge. County Clerk, Clerk of the Di-trIct Court, and find the amount of fees, received by them, as shown on their fee books, to correspond with the sworn statements of each officer. filed with the Board for the quarter ending June 20, 1885.
 COUNTY COURT. 
 The expenses ofthe county court from its organIz- ton to July 3l, 1885, in aud tied bills, have been us follows:
 Record books. ks................S @ SC Blanks. ks................- 69 T Stationery 30 O. Clock .................... 30 U0 Carpenters work TeInodeling
 court room................e 27l 6S. | Furniture and carpet for court
 room and judges chambers. 3i6 05 Fees of witnesses, jurors and In- terpreters and attorney for defending criminals. ..... 2S3 50 Salary of judge and clerk to July olst- -......... ............. l,OJU OO ADAdA @--t tCo tt The fees turned in by the clerk of this court mp to July 3l, 1885, amounting to S35iJ5, are necessarily small. and are but g meager offset to the incurred ex- | I.en-es, for the court only organized for | business about April 10th, 1885, while | the salary account ran from April lst. Then again, the fling fees in civIl cases are but a small part of the total | cost, and this latter in many cases has Eot yet been reached. It Is, ID my iudg- meut, impossible with the data before us 10 reach n just estimate as to the value of this court to ihe county; at | least another quarterly return should be awaited. lt may, however, be safely as- | sumed that any increase m the volume of business will entail heavier expense upon the county, for no court K self-sus- tsining; the three deciding factors | must be:
 First-Does speedy trial of criminal cases effect a saving to the county? | Secoud-Will the exist ace of this court rtsult in a saving of money to lltl- gants and therefore. to the best general interests of the county for hugants as taxpayers: | Ihird-Will this court insure speedier trials. therefore more iusticel
 Only toy actually running the court Tor some time can these questions be tested.
 Necessarily the organizing of this court has entailed upon the present BoarI unusual expenses.
 l Certain operations of the Salary and Fee Bills deserve notice. The sheriff s salary IS S7, 500 per aunum, and mileage m criminal cases. Out of this SI ,JOO the | sheriff must pay all his expenses. lie meets this reduction in hIs gross reSe- nue by employing fewer deputies. The direct consequence of this IS that large proportion of the civil and crIm- iual business, which wKs formerly done by the deputy sherIffs IS now left to the constables whose fees are allowed and certified to by the justices os the peace against the county.
 In fine, the tendency is that on the one l hand the sheriff does only those things which be is by law required to do, and op the other hand the justices of the psace throw upon the county all cases where collections from criminals are doubtful. The sheriff has lost that ln- ceptiye to work which hIs office former ly had, viz: fees.
 The justices having a rich countyt?) to fall back upop, become indifferent as To whether or not fines and lees can he made out of criminals. The total fines turned in to the county treasurer Inv the various justices of the county Tor the year ending June Both, lSo5. IS Siu.26.
 When to the quarterly salary of the sheriff SIS75. IS added mileage audited for second quarter 1885, Si35,l4, We have a total of S2,3l0li as sheriff s salary under the new law Tor second ] quarter of 1885.
 The Papago affair at Dobbs' Station cost the county over and above the foregoing sums paid the sheriff, the sum of SlO0l.ll, itemized as follows: F. Acuirre, stage fares. ..slJO O0 W. |. Perry, teams. s............-. oz UU Hereford, telegTaphing .......... v UO SherifT's posse, per diem, meals, and ammunition. On............ OfO -i l.. Zsckendorf < O., provisions - and cartridges es..........-.. oO o' $. M. Franklin, defending Papa o, gOJs.............-..- l' V0 Total ...............Sl SlOOl II , also deem 1t proper to call the atten- ton Of the Board to the system now m vogue for collecting the license tax oi the county. - A comparison of the receipts of the county treasurer from the sheriff for the ] 1 first seven months Of 1881 and lss1 IS as } follows: ...o-, o, , ist Jan'y 1884 to July Slst. .lsslsl0,952 0C [ lst Jan'y 1885 to July Slst, lSs5 I6so OI
 Showing a falling off of. .... s3,26I Ol