New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1890-10-20

the boaru OF kstamate and ApDortaonMent for
reoopytng nutahsed records was 31S3,ooo. tie
amount. expended 'beinx ISL zoe. In 1854 the
cost Of this work was $20.77s; in 1888, 9g,Sss;
In 1887, $2s.o57; in 1858. .$2s.;7i; in 1889,
s24.s7o. End in 1900 to May 20, ss.eos. making
m.s os~a q, i1f COMPARING AND putans u
the average cost page, 81 il s..
The provisional estimate submitted 70 the Board
e. an appropriasacn q sI4". 900, but only SiRS-
GOO was allowed. The providonA estimate
r dSr issl asks for an appropriation Of
cropped out that the present Register has Asked
for an appropriation for the ensuing year Of $4,000
q excess Of the needs o. hi, Office. In 1885, when
once was done BY sixteen clerks. Now, when
tie city 10 paying the expenses, there are sixty
four clerks on the payroll. In other words, al
more than onc-Falf during the last four yean, It
work The total number Of men employed In the
Sh,oe including saared employs, N; ns5; s o,
;sast S''d;as' r ::ssss II: III
The gradual increase in the salary list
appears: there was formerly only one delivery
clerk, but there are two now; there was one
examiner then. and there are three now there
was one reader then. and there are three now :;
there is now a search clerk and two temporary
clerks that were not known before: there were
four index clerks, and there are eight now; one
custodian, nine now one Waterman, Two nov
been addet: TO the list chief recording clerk at
s, 800, certified copy clerk at 81 900. clerk
Of powers Of o 81 ceds Of
ing A.4OO, a mortgage clerk at 81 400 and two
assistant clerks 81 $50 The Office hours are from
M to mt s eG nox
gets S. 900: the former Assistant Deputy Register
received $500. he now gets $1,000.
All these men are appointed by the Register;
the Civil Service laws having no application To
this Office It was further developed that several
of the men who drew q salary from the city for
nominal services were also eneaged In business
looly. whose arduous duties in the Registers
Office at 81 900 consisted in seeing that the par
cuas to his charge e.
for McKeever Brothers. in Vesey-st., opposite
Washington Market. The subpoena for Mr.: Gil
~ S1S on him While he was behind the bar He
confessed that little of his time, if any, spent
at the Registers office.
ness his name is Hart. Emanuel Mendleson. a
custodian, keeps a pawnshop: He had not found
that his business was suffering from the fact Of
Hynes another custodian also finds time in some
way to carry on a very flourshing undertaking
business John E. Fitzgerald the Deputy oA As
is '' the present Registers brother. Henry ].
Commisky, chattel mortgage clerk, $500, was
formerly barkeeper for the present Register
father In June. $50, Robert A. White was in
Ireland In September, 1883, he was exercising
the important office Of certified copy clerk at q
salary of 81 200, having been appointed through
tie influence Of w. Bourke Cochran. Subse-
uuently having had some trouble with certain
LAWYERS he was sent upstairs for his health y
and made chief examiner at an increased salary
amounting to 81 800
The court had decided that in the work OF
the preservation of public records a days work
should consist Of at least five pages OF copying
4 comparative estimate. based on an examination
OF one of the libers selected at random, showed
that these copying clerks. vino receive cents
rer folio are being paid at the rate OF S4,5o
day for e,eN zoo words they write. This mini
min limit Of five pages day is never exceeded
The work of recording satsfactlons Of MORTGAGES
ia some nine months behind The work OF de-
GverinC deeds 10 the lawyers after they have
been recorded is nearly four months behind.
Charles Blauvelt, deputy under ex-Reglsrer
Reilly has offered to contract for the entire work
of searching in the Registers office for the next
year for So 900 and to give bonds for total OF
$40 900 equal to the total given for the Register
In the investigation of the Tax Department.
which finished the weeks work for the committee,
II was established that the Tax Commissioner,
Michael Coleman, had protested against the com
paratively high assessment in the Seventh, Tenth
and Thirteenth wards by Henry A. Perry. among
whose hackers are Edward s. Stokes and w.
Bourke Cochran, and that other districts
OF the city, held by much richer owners are let
of at far lighter estimate by the Tammany