The record-union., 1893-03-09
Who IS IT?
Thirty-Three thousand Dollars a
Year Threatened
To be Added to County Official Sal
aries-An Increase of Taxes Ten
Cents on the 500.

At the beginning of the legislative ses-
bills introduced in the Assembly having
for their object the amendment of the
County Government Act.
All those bills were referred to the As
sembly Committee on County and Town
ship Government. The committee on
March I'd reported a substitute for all
these bills, and the substitutes docu-
ment of 1913 printed pages-is now before
the Assembly, the printed bill being re-
turned from the State Printing Office to
the Assembly yesterday morning.
The current report in the halls OF the
Capitol is that the bill is to be declared q
case Of urgency and is to be passed aOith
lightning speed.
By Section 162 of the bill the counties of
the State are classified according to pop
ulation, as ascertained by the Federal
census of 1890. and all counties contain
ing population of over 10000 and under
45, ZOO belong to the fifth class This re-
fers alone to Sacramento County, her pop
ulation beiug &c, ,339 by the Federal CEN
sus, and there being no other county hav-
ing between 40, 600 and $1,000.
Section l67 of the bill provides for COM
pensation of the officers of counties OF
The fifth class-that is for the county Of
ficers of Sacramento County. By Section
l67 the salaries are to be:
County Clerk, $4,000; Chief Deputy,
81, 800; two other deputies, each 81. .20O.
Sheriff, $1,000; two courtroom balllfls,
each 81 200.
Recorder, $4,000; Chief Deputy, $1,000;
copyist, 5000.
Auditor, $1,000; Chief Deputy, 81, 500.
Treasurer, $500.
Tax Collector, $1,000.
Assessor, $1,000; Chief Deputy, S1,SO0;
assistant, Sl,5O0; four field deputies for
1our months each year, $500 each.
District Attorney, $500; Assistant Dis
trict Attorney, Sl,SO0; Deputy District
Attorney, 81 200.
Superintendent of Schools, S2, 400, and
500 for travelling expenses.
This bill, ii it becomes a law, will in
crease the compensation of officers ol
Sacramento County as follows:
County Clerk, $500.
Sheriff and Tax Collector, $500.
Recorder and Auditor, 81 900.
Treasurer, 81 ,2O0.
Assessor, 50, 500.
District Attorney 5000.
Superintendent of Schools, 5000. A totaI
increase per year of so, 800. Which ol
course would mean the payment out Of
the county treasury of that sum in addi-
ton to what is now paid as salaries o.
Tue county OllCldlS, anu q corresponding
Increase in the rate of taxation, the in
crease being between seven and eigh
cents on each 500.
The section also provides that each Su.
pervisor when rendering services as
Road Commissioner shall be allowed
mileage, at the rate of 20 cents mile fol
each mile necessarily travelled, and there
appears no limit to such travel, eXcep
the own discretion of the commissioner
The section also provides new sched
ule of fees tor Justices of the Peace, by
which it is estimated by an attorney fam
liar with such matters, that the ices o
Justices will be about three times a
much as under the law now in force.
In addition to the mischiefs of this bill
there is Assembly Bill No. IA, whicl
has already passed the Assembly, ant
may pass the Senate. This latter bill
also provides for Sacramento County, il
addition to the officers provided by th
commit bill, clerk of the Board O
Supervisors at $500 per year.
Jailer, 81, 200.
Register of Deeds, $1,000, and Tran
scriber, $1,000.
Making in all the further sum of Sl2
200 per year; so that if both bills becom
laws total increase of S33, 200 in the com
pensation is to be paid the county Off
GERS in this county, requiring an increas
of ten cents on the tax rate.
AS Sacramento County is the onl
county belonging to the fifth elias.
is it fair to presume that these propose
increases in salaries, with like increase l
tax rate, must have been suggested
the Legislature, either by some of ou
own members, by the county officer
themselves, or by some of our taxpayer.
Our members in the Legislature den
the allegation. Who is it then?