Sacramento daily record-union., 1890-09-06
THE ASSESSORS OFFICE.
Mr. Frost Does Some Effective TaIEisg
to the Supervisors.

Mr. Frost Does Some Effective TaIEiss
to the Supervisors.
Something was said at the session of til.
Boar6 of Supervisors on Thursday which
lei Assessor Frost to believe that the
Board intended 70 leave his Office without
dsputy for the remainder of the term.
Therefore, when Mr. Frost presented him.
self before that auguss body yesterday and
informed the members thereof that he had
something on his mind and desired their
attention, be was not in his most amiaiie
mood.
He called The attention Of the Board to q
few facts and figures which he had gathered
from the records of his own office and that
of the Auditor which bore him out in the
statement that the Assessors Office had
cost the county less under his administra-
ton than ever before. He said he failed TO
understand what motive could have actu-
ated any member of the Board in limiting
at possible raid on his one solitary dep
Gty, " hile all the other departments of the
county government had from one to half
dozen.
Mr.. Frost told the Board that the
most economical administration of the
Assessors office, prior to his incum-
bency, was that of his worthy
predecessor, ]. T. Griffits. and that the
latter required all the help given him.
But in making comparisons between the
expense of his (Frosi's) term and that OF
any other Assessor. he preferred to use the
figures of Mr.. Griffits' term, the lowest OF
all. First year, Grifits 81 927 96, Frost
Frost $S,612 80; third year, Griffits Sl0,-
25l 10. Frost $S.021 S5; fourth year, Grif-
fits s. 7S4 IS. Frost $7,74s %.
There were some items included in his
own figures, Mr.. Frost said which were
really not paid out by the county. such as
special property tax collections on a per-
centage, registering voters, cost of stamps
etc., but these were included.
He further stated that since he came
into Office, many large tracts of land, such
as Highland Park, Oak Park, etc, formerly
owned by few individuals, had been
divided up and now contained several hun
dred residents. There are now 700 more
taxpayers enrolled than when he took his
office, and the tax roll had been increased
from $22, ,0O0, 600 to $4,000, 900. All the
additional work involved had been done
by long hours of labor in his office, when
other departments had closed and their
occupants were in bed.
His office is now engaged in registering
voters. Those who are registered by spe-
cial outside deputies come to his office and
all have to be duplicated there and placed
in proper shape for the registry clerks, and
yet it was proposed to take away his only
deputy. He had laid the facts before the
Board, and it could do as it pleased, but
thought he should be allowed to retain one
deputy for the remainder of the year.
W. w. Coons substantiated all that Mr..
HoI ea,l aIAad
suggestions of his own.
Supervisor Greer said he for one was in
favor of allowing Mr.. Frost q clerk at least
until the registration of voters closes. He
saw the necessity for clerk to receive and
arrange the list of voters names sent in by
the deputies outside, who get paid Is cents
per name. This work should be well and
thoroughly done, that no voter might be
disfranchised.
Other members of the Board expressed
themselves in the same vein. and Mr.. Frost
retired with the assurance that his deputy
would not be molested--for the present, at
least