The record-union., 1891-03-03
SACRAMENTO JUSTICES.
Citizens Petition the Legislature to
Reduce the Number.
A Memorial Setting Forth That the
Present Number of Justices Are
Serious Burden.

The following petition was presented
in the Senate yesterday by Mr.. Dray:
TO the Honorable, the Senate and As
SembIy Of the State Of California: The pc
tition of the undersigned, residents and
taxpayers of the city of Sacramento, re-
Spectfully shows:
That under the existing law grevous
and unnecessary burden is placed upon
the taxpayers Of the city of Sacramento
for the maintenance of the officers of and
payment of the salaries to the two City
Justices of the Peace. Sacramento City
is coeXtensive in boundary with the
township in which it is situated, and I'M
der the law we have one Township JUS
tice, who receives the fees allowed by
law as compensation OF the services which
he renders, and two City Justices who
are each paid q salary by the city of g, 900
per year, with office rents, fuel and other
incidental expenses. The fees collected
by the City Justices are accounted for by
them and paid into the City Treasury Of
necessity they are compelled to collect
such fees in cash, while the Township
Justice has been enabled to do a
credit business, and await the con-
venience of litigants before making
collection of the fees due him, and the re-
suit has been that nearly all the Justice
Court business of this city for more than
the ten years last past has been brought
before, and the fees thereof have been
pocketed by the township Justice, while
the business done by the city Justices
has been merely nominal, and the fees
collected by them and turned into the
City Treasury just about sufficient to
pay their Office rents, so that the main
tenance of these offices results in a clear
loss to Sacramento City of as much as
$4,000 per year, and that more than S40,-
600 has been paid out by our taxpayers
within the InSt ton for tho en- +
Of these Offices in excess of all returns.
Your petitioners therefore humbly
| pray that the law may be so amended by
you as to relieve us of this burden.
Thos. M. Huntington, J. G. MARITIME, r.
| S. Cleary, j. G. Davis, D. II. Miller. c.
| L. White, l.. Elkus, II. L. Kleinsorge, +.
| II. Pierce, S. Ginsberg, l.. J. Croly, g.
w. Mott, o. p. Willis, G.. b. Blue, S.
Gerson, A. Johnson, S. Mosenfels A.
Heilbron, L. T. Thomson, S. Lavenson,
| G. A. Plummer, J. f. Palmer, d. d. Whit
| beck, r. L. Devlin, L. III. Lindley, D. a.
Lindley T.. I. Griffiths, e. j. Gregory,
Frank Miller, 5. p. Smith, Jas. Farris,
Edwin X. Alsip, Hugh Casey, L. Mebius,
C. f. Dillman, NJ. J. Dillman, T. D. Lit
| tlefield, G. w. Stafford. w. r. Cluness,
| NJ. Cronan, John hatcher, S. e. Car
| rington, e. c. Hopkins, L. c. Chand-
| Ter, Thomas L. Enwright, William
| Ingram, Jr, H. Heilbron, 4. Hebron, A.
Conklin. Jones & Givens, H. j. Norton, G.
a. Luhrs, t. b. Hall, w. IT. Wood, w. r.
Strong, J. w. Barrett, w c. Hall, Walter
! Wylik, c., B. Strong, j. H. Platt, C. f.
| Wheeler, ]. a. McIntire, S. C. Drescher,
J. Hahn, w. T. Hilderbrand, ID. Lubin.
A. Bonnheinl, S. S. Southworth, John
! We'll. Ii. c. Fisher, Henry Fisher, II.
NJ. LaRue, L. L. Lewis. W. D. Comstock,
Kirk, Geary IL Co., II. r. Thompson, G.
| II. Hubbard, John Stevens, VIM. H.
Bradley, l.. B. Mohr, G. NJ. Hartley. ].
a. Smith, II. G. May, L. Neubourg, c..
Lagos.