St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1896-01-26


amount Of cash received by him during
the year was S24, 1887, and the amount
due but uncollected, s1,606.50, making
the aggregate income S26,0S6.47. This
leaves Mr.. Rogers, on the basis Of the
most liberal estimate of expenses here.
made $14,0S647.
The next office was that of register
Of deeds, over which Henry Weber at
present presides-without doing any
work. When asked if he had any OBJ
lection to making public statement
OF the expenses of his Office, Mr. Weber
said:
We'll, I prefer not to dc so, though
my net income has not been excessive
said Mr. Weber, You see the receipts
have fallen off greatly by reason of
the inactivity in real estate. Then
there are so many to be taken care Of
You know how it is" he suggested
with knowing grin, intimating that
the political hangers-on had to be pro-
vided with berths, even though
poor" officials emoluments were
thereby reduced. 1.-The fact is that 1
| had use for. Only a few days ago
L let number go. But 1 will have to
put some on again when business i'm
proves. You see business is unsteady
with us. No, 1 don't think it .advisa-
BILE for me to make statement of my
expenses
This gave rise to the necessity for the
reporters making it for him, on the
basis Of a reasonable estimate. At
present there are employed in the Office
of the register of deeds five clerks
This is about the minimum number
Sometimes as high as ten or twelve
are employed. A reasonable, yes, lib
eral estimate, would be from seven to
eight. Mr.. Breen, Mr.. Weber's chief
clerk, placed the average number en-
ployed at eight. The salaries range
from $40 to $50 per month. Calling the
average So which is too high, the ag-
gregate for a year for seven clerks
would be $3.50. Mr.. Webers report
placed his gross income at S12, 919 which
would leave him a net of a little over
$1,000 to pay himself for keeping him
self in the way
While calling attention to the ex-
cesses of this particular office, it might
be well also to call attention to the
fees charged therein as compared with
those fixed by the following provisions
of the law relating thereto:
THE fees and compensation of the register
of deeds of Ramsey county shall be as follows:
For indexing, entering and recording any deed
or other instrument, seven and one-half cents
for each folio, to be paid when the same is
left for record; for every certificate 1C cents;
for copies, of any record or papers. when re-
quired. seven and one-half cents for each folio:
for recording any paper in any other than the
English language, Is cents per folio; for en-
tering the discharge of mortgage on the mar
gin Of the record, 10 cents; for filing every
instrument and making any entry thereof,
when necessary, five cents.
The law provides that a folio shall
consist of 100 words. The ordinary
deed does not exceed 500 words at the
outside. Therefore, the rate for record
ing them should be so cents, but Mr..
Weber gets rs cents. On other docu-
ments recorded like excess Is charged.
and so on down through most of the
items enumerated In the law, so that
IL only the legal fees were charged by
the office, the margin for the register
would not be so great that he could af-
ford to loaf
County Treasurer F. E. Edmund had
no hesitancy In giving a statement of
his expenses just as soon as asked for.
The county treasurer is allowed $4,000
a year as compensation for running his
Office, he employing all his own help
The only source of income, aside from
this is per cent on all personal prop
erty taxes collected by him between
the time they become delinquent and
the taking Of judgment. The income
from this source the past year was
$570.46, making the total income of the
office s12,5704 As for the year. But it was
few days after the first of the year
before the change took place, so that
Mr.. Edmund S income was only S12 370. .46.
Out of this, according to his statement,
he paid $3.50 for clerk hire, leaving
him 81 400 .46 for his net income
County Auditor Sullivan made no for
NAL statement, but said his net income
would run about the same as that of the
county treasurer probably trifle more.
He thought about $4,000 The county
auditor like the treasurer, is allowed
$4,000 year as consideration for run
ming his office. paying his clerks out of
this. Mr.. Sullivan, like Mr.. Edmund
lost few days on the first of last year
so that his aggregate receipts fell 5000
short of this amount. The minimum
number of clerks in the office is seven,
and at times there are ten or twelve, so
that probably the average Is about
eight. The salaries range from $50 to
500 month, averaging say $75. This
would make the aggregate amount paid
for salaries 1920, leaving Mr. Sullivan
4,600-assuming the estimate to be cor
rect.
Sheriff Chapel, with his usual shrewd-
ness, reports his expenses as we'll as his
receipts and Eugene Giberton swears
openly-and also confidentially-that he
keeps the books and knows it is abso-
lutely correct, and you can't go back
Of Gene, Notwithstanding the suspi-
cions of the public generally that a dose
NOONN'A-AD
port before it was given to the auditor
According to that report the total re-
ceipts of the office for the year was
26,437.56, Of which $50 1858 was col
lections on executions, attachments, etc,
$4,367.S5 personal property taxes, the bal
ance, $31, ,134. IL, being fees. or income of the
office proper. Out of this was paid ST.
120 for salaries, and $55S0.8 81 for other
expenses, leaving the net income Of
$S.433.31 to compensate the sheriff
The total of S17,12 for salaries looks
a little large, but there are seventeen
permanent attaches of the sheriff's Of
flee. OF these it is claimed that eight
receive $4,000 a year in the aggregate.
This leaves 1920 for the other nine
Six of these are bailiffs, who receive $50
a month, the county paying for them,
but the amount being included in the
total receipts of the sheriff's office This
makes s4,320, leaving balance of 81, 800
to pay the remaining three and pay for
additional help as it may be necessary
to employ from time to time. The
$5,580.S1 expenses, aside from salaries,
includes the cost of going after pris-
oners, supplying the jail and other ex-
penses attaching to the office