Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1890-12-03

~---.'--- trict Attorney is considered as the proper auditing fficer on the accounts oi the Sheriff, he should with equal be requested to pass upon the accounts oi the Probate Judge, es- pecially in consideration of the facts cited with reference to the latter officer.
 We find that's safe ceptacle for the books and records of the office is UT. gently needed. With the present con- veniences the theft or destruction of Important papers of record is an easy matter, and We recommend that a fire and burglar proof safe be provided.
 We find that nearly all ot the actual labor connected with the office devolyes upon the clerk. and that he receives a smaller compensation by far than any other attache of the Board. While this Is matter that rests entirely with the Legislature. We trust that the represen- tatives from this county will take sc- tive steps m the next Legislature to have the salary of clerks of Boards of Supervisors raised to sum commen- surate with Il e duties of tue position. For the amount of work imposed on the present clerk. twelve hundred dol lars per year would be fair and moder- ate allowance. St present it is five hundred.
 Respectfully submitted,
 E. $. CLARK,
 JHo. T. SKULL, >Com.
 R. J. ATKINSON J
 Prescott, November 25th, 1890.
 THE sBERiFF's OFFICE.
 The committee, composed of Stephen Ross aud George Merritt, appointed to examine the Sheriff's office, make a very favorable report of tue manner in which the business has been conducted by Sheriff 0'Neill and his deputies They found that licenses were collected by hum wherever practicable, and none were allowed to escape payment. They recommend that an iron floor be placed in the vault of the Recorders office that the county lail be repaired, and that the ceiling also be put in better shape. Acting on the suggestion ol the JouRNAL-MINER, they recommend that thorough examination of the ceiling of the court house .and also ol the foundation, and ol the jail yard, be made, and if found unsafe, that they be attended 10; that a new safe beiur nished fer the sheEiff's office or the old one repaired; that provision be made for the safe keeping of the records of the supervisors office; that new carpet be placed in the grand jury room, and that the tressurer's office be supplied with burglsr-prooi safe.
 THE pRoBATB JUDGE-
 Below wIll be found in full the re- port of the committee appointed to examine the Probate Judges office: To the Foreman Of tne Grand Jury of
 .he County If Yssapsi for the N--
 vember Term of the District Codit,
 for the year 1890:
 We, your committee appointed te ex- anime into the offices of probate judge and county superintendent of public schools, beg to report as follows:
 We have found the records of these offices to have been kept In mann,r which speaks well for the efficiency, diligence and industry of the present incumbent. h the office of probate udge we find that the fees coilec,ss, from April I, 1889, to the prtssn, time, fIon estates probated in said court. amount to $I75.75; fees for examining insane patients for the same period ts be S4o. As ex-officio county snperln- tecden, Of public schools, be has drawn iEom the county treasury for the same period, $500 per annum, and for services as examiner on the county school board, the sum of S6o. We find that the bills allowed the county superintendent fer postage. expressage. etc., by the county board of supervlsors amount to SIaI.25.
 Inasmucn Ss | seeias 10 be the in- tent of the present las 6sing ihe com- pensation of public otiioers that the salary of the probate judge acting as su- of public schools saall be limited to SI, 200 per year for all service s performed by hun ID his official cspacny, and as there seems 10 be conflicting opin- ions as to the intent of said law, we would suggest that she grand jury recommend some means by which ths lav may be ex- pIIcitly defined on this subject,
 Respectfully submitted.
 D. ]. SULLIVAN,
 Chairman