The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1895-02-16
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been settled for good were left on the cal
endar and to all appearances were still in
litigation, and the calendar was in other
ways in such a condition that it is only
lately that we have been able to find the
exact status of many important matters.
For instance, here is the estate of
Charles 6. Howard, in which an order ap-
pointing the Public Administrator was
made by the Probate Judge, Nothing of
the kind appears in the records In the
estate of A. S. Saroni the court made a de-
cree of distribution, but the decree was not
recorded and on examination we found
that it had been filed on December 81, 199-.
In case new suit should involve this estate
such omissions might prove very impor-
tant.
Another will, that of A. W. Heine, is
stamped as having been filed on December
81, 1895, by j. R. Sherrard. This mistake,
If it can be so called, might also be impor-
tant. In the estates of Eliza ]. Carson,
Robert Nixon and many others, important
documents were left unrecorded, and we
have since been compelled to do the work.
Now here is q matter which might not be
OF so much Importance in the cases before
the court, but which makes big differ
ence in our expense bill. On December 81,
1894, nineteen minute-book orders were
filed in the Probate Court, but not one was
recorded. This means that one of our men
must put in a couple of days copying them
in the record books.
1.-The fact of the matter is that Mr.. Haley
was trying to make it appear that he was
running his office inside the amount to
which he was pledged by the convention
which nominated him, in order to get a re-
nomination and catch the popular vote.
The County Clerks office simply cannot be
run Tor $1,000 per month and have the work
done properly. When that pledge was
hrst forced upon candidates for nomina-
ton 1t was about the correct figure, but
since. that time the business of the office
has increased at least twofold, and of
course the expenses have largely increased.
Inc II, law allows an expenditure of over
Slo,0oO per month, and this amount is ade-
quate, but Mr.. Haley, to make his expense
accounts appear small, employed far less
clerks than he could have had under the
law and the work was left undone.
Other departments were also left in bad
shape, notably the marriage license de-
partment and that portion of the criminal
department in which the insane records
are Kept. In the former we found only
seven Incense blanks when we came in, and
as we need from fifteen to twenty each day
ana 1T takes two Or three days to procure a
new supply, we were much embarrassed
1or little while.
I'm the matter of the insanity records.
ooohs Win planK forms showing the name,
age, sex, date of examination, date of dis
charge, ETC., of persons arrested for in
sanity were not once scratched by pen.
The written orders of the court of which
TINS book should be record were put in
bundles and stored away, it is hard to say
where, and if a person tried to find out
what disposition had been made of a
lunaey case it would be hard to discover
unless the person charged had been COM
mltted to an asylum
When asked regarding Mr.. Curry's
charges Mr.. Haley said he did not wish to
reply to them or enter into any contro-
versy.
i am out of public life,' he said, ssand
l wish to remain out. The public did not
seem to appreciate my efforts while in
says"