Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1897-07-07
OF their salaries for the current year.
shows up as follows;

OF their salaries for the current year,
shows up as follows:
Courts, .J,d,e. Eaah ro..,
ouPrcHe' ...... ...,.... $4,000 II bO1
Dhahcery Appeals. ,..... 8 $500 10000
Criminal. ....""".".... $50 1850
Nnancery ''........."...l3 2,HO 80 900
Sircult' ............. "a $500 40 non
% sl2S, 900
thus the salaries of the regular Judges
and chancellors aggregate Sl23, 600 per
annum' and zach succeeding legislature
seems disposed to add to the number of
judges. The General Assembly OF 1895
created five new judges, three for the
Court OF ~Chancery Appeals, one for the
new Criminal Court for the Eleventh
Judicial Circuit and one for the Second
Circuit Court of Davidson county.
The fact that there should be a re-
form of our judicial system and a reduce
ton OF the number OF judges most
clearly appears from a comparison with
the adjoining States OF Georgia and
North Carolina, both OF which have
adopted the reformed procedure and
abolished the distinction between courts
of law and equity.
Georgia.
In Georgia the regular judicial salary
list shows up as follows:
No OF Salaries
Courts. JUDGES. Each. Total.
supreme .............. 5000 1000
superior ..............23 1900 5000
26 $1,000
The Superior Courts OF Georgia prac-
tically combine the jurisdiction which
is divided between the Circuit and
C~hancery Courts in Tennessee.
North Carolina.
There are no separate courts Of equity
in North Carolina, and as a result the
salary list is as follows:
No. OF Salaries
Courts. judges. Each. Total.
supreme ........... B S2,75O Sl3,75O
Dlstrlct,..... -. ..... II 1850 5000
II $3.50
Recapltulatlons.
The population Of tho three States Of
Tennessee, Georgia and North Carolina
is practically the samo in number, char
acter and situation, and there is no rea-
son why there should be more litigation
in Tennessee than in the other two.
The comparative population federal
census of 1900 and aggregate annually
paid to the judges in each of the three
States will more clearly appear from
the following:
No. OF Salary
state. Population. Judges. Aggregate
North Carolina. /, 6l7,0 i7 II S 1880
Georgia .........l ,s37.S53 % 5000
Tennessee. ......1, 7G7,5lS &c 1913 5000
Georgia, with a larger population and
more wealth than Tennessee, pays
SGS, 900 a year less in the way OF judicial
salaries, while North Carolina, with a
little less population, pays $40, $50 less.
Yea, IL our figures and information are
correct, the unfortunate taxpayers OF
tennessee, under the separate law and
equity system, are forced every year to
pay Judicial salaries exceeding the COM
bined amounts paid for the same pur-
pose by the people Of both the States OF
Georgia and North Carolina, by the neat
sum of SCI, go, IN amount nearly equal
the alleged expense OF the constitutional
convention OF 1876.
A constitutional change abolishing
the separate courts OF law and equity
would not only save about $50, 900 per
annum in judicial salaries under proper
legislation, but it would relieve the
people from the burden OF supporting
one extra clerk in each Of the ninety
SIX counties, as there would be no need
both a clerk and master and Circuit |
Court clerk, for the court which would
the jurisdiction now separately
exercised by the Circuit and Chancery
In fact the clerk Of the Superior Court
in zach county in Georgia, being ex-
register of deeds, performs and
combines in himself, under the re-
procedure, the functions Of three
Of the most expensive and important
offices in Tennessee, viz: chan
Gerry clerk, circuit clerk and county reg
lster.
There is a difference Of opinion as to
whether the new court of Chancery
which has fastened an addi-
burden of $40, 500 per annum ON
shoulders Of the Taxpayers, is =
necessity, even under the present re-
yime, and certainly it would not be
under a new consultation
which would fix tho sittings Of the Su-
preme Court at one place, and allow the
establishment of a modern, improved
and simplified system OF courts and
court procedure. II seems to be the
opinion Of our best informed
l. That the Supreme Court should sit
the capital only.
.. That the county court, which Is
enormously expensive and cumbersome,
and which is fixed in the constitution,
be abolished.
B. That separate courts Of law and
,hancery should be blended into one.
Mona ~ tbnSa thipr, H. 49,