Grand Rapids herald. [volume] (Grand Rapids, Mich.) 1892-1959, 1892-10-27
TAX WAR Is LIVELY
Between the City and the
County Supervisors.
TWO REPORTS SUBMITTED
They Were Made a Special Order for
Todsy-The Salary Committees
Report Also Tabled.

The fight over the spporuoning OF
taxes between the country and the city
aid not materlsllze yesterday, bat ma
lorlIy and minority reports were sub
United by the committee on equSliza-
ton, and both reports were printed
and made q special order for today.
One report gives the city GA per cent
and the townships IS. per cent, while
the otner report makes the division "a
and 30 per cent. There will 10 lively
time over these reports at 10 O'Clock
today. AT the session yesterday the
special committee on salaries reported
scale OF wages for the registers
Office, the treasurer's Office and the
county clerks Office. Ii also recon-
mended the creation OF q new clerk,
known as q lee clerk. There was some
doubt as TO the right of the board 10
create such a clerkship. The wages
reported are as follows:
The salary List
Register of deeds, one abstract clerk
at 81 200 per year; bookkeeper, 50 per
week; index clerk. $l3 per week: copy
ist for abstracts, 81 per week. Five re-
cordlng clerks, 10 be graded as follows:
For the tirst three months, 80 per week;
for the next nine months, s. per week,
and after one year s. per week.
For the Office OF treasurer: One chief
clerk at 81 600 per year; one clerk st
5000 per year, one fee clerk at $1,000
per year.
For the Office OF county clerk: Two
court or chief deputies at 81 200 per
year each, three office deputies at 5000
per year each. One vault clerk at s.
per week. In regard TO the abstract
clerk IN the registers Office IL is argued
| that the best of services must be had
IN order TO make this branch pay what
| II should add IN order that the county
may give the public ae good service In
furnishing abstracts as IS possible the
| committee asked that the board should
take every precsuton TO keep the
abstract books In the beet possible
manner and that good salaries should
be paid. The county officer who re-
ceives fees will be required to fill out
"A sworn statement of the receipts of
! the respective Offices for each day and
| submit them to the fee clerk who
shall properly enter the same in a
book provided. The fee clerk will be
general assistant in the treasurers
Office when not working on the fee
accounts. The officers that receive
| fees must give bonds for the custody
OF these fees that come into their
hands.
The report was made special order
for today.
Township Registrations Unnecessary.
Prosecuting Attorney Mcknight re-
| ported that outside of the CITY a re-
registration is not necessary. He said
law was passed IN 1882 requiring a
registration that year and every ten
| years thereafter but IN 1888 the law
was amended so that q registration is
not necessary IN the townships.
! In regard to the matter of wages Mr..
Gill said there ought to be an increase
In the salaries of the girls in the regis
ter's office. He thought il difficult for
| girls to 1--we virtuous lives on S. or Sc
| per week. He saw no reason why
some clerks should have from $40 e.
SIS per week while others who worked
equally hard should receive but pit
lance. He promises to make a lively
plea for an increase in the salaries of
the copying clerks when the matter
comes up today.
The committee on equalization cub
mltted majority report which was
made a special order for today and was
ordered printed.
Majority Equalization Report.
Following are the figures submitted