The San Francisco call., 1897-06-29

directly under the discretion of the board
nave made an allowance equivalent to last
years eIpendlture-to wit, $4,000 for sal
aries and $4,000 for expenses. / have not
assumed to enumerate the various appoint
ments and sa aries to each. preferring TO leave
that to your judgment ana discretion. There
are ten positions that are statutory aud sal
aries designated included in the $50, 900 al
lowance, viz: l secretary ! assistant secre-
tary o Health Inspectors, Market Inspector,
l messenger, at salary of $4,000. The board
asks that appropriation be made for the paw
ment OF salary OF sixty-eight additional Of
ticials at q total of $6S 100. l would suggest
that the demands OF the present board are
serious matters. The only law that can find
Tor the creation OF the multiplicity of Offices
is contained in section 5000 Of the Political
Code, designating the offices that may be
filled by the boards appointment, and is the
following:
And said board is also empowered to an
point such empl Dyes and such medical at
tendants as they may deem necessary n the
Health Department and in all the various in
stltutions which are by law placed under
their supervision, and compensa ton of such
employees and medical attendants shall be
fixed by the Board o Health. The appointing
power afore said is vested solely in said Board
OF Health, and said board shall have power
TO prescribe the duties of said appointees and
shall not remove the same without just cause"
Section 3010, Political Code, designates the
salaries to be paid per annum to all the desig-
mated officers and employees OF the board. and
also contains the following: "And all other
medical attendants and employees of said in
buluLOnS are 10 be paid such sums & NAV
be authorized by law. and as provided in the
preceding section (3009). ali to be paid in
equal monthly instalments out of the Hos
plJaI and Almshouse fund." The An
dltor is directed TO audit against said funds
The total expenditures of said institutions
Jointly are limited by law to Sl5 600 per
month, and If IL is intended that the en-
ployes and medical attendants appointed bv
the Board of Health under authority of sec
tion 5000 shall be paid out of said amount. II
VIII be readily seen that they cannot expect
n a ii lTf aIorhf vfra sol.
that.
Last year in the estimate OF expenditures
provision was made for appropriation for
payment OF salary OF staiu tory officers and
many designated extra employees and medical
attendants (bearlng Official tfties) amounting
TO $4,000, and then lump sum of $50 600
as additional allowances for saIarv-in totsl
$4,000, and now the board asks for $50 600
Inasmuch as ne law bearing upon the mower
10 create ofhces Is somewhat ambiguous ! re-
specuulIy recommend that the official title
and amount OF salary allowed each shall be
classified in the ordinance your honorsbIe
body may enact on appropriation as a guide to
me in auditing demands. | look upon the
ordinance OF the board of Supervisors desig-
mating the amount 20 be paid each as the
strongest claim to payment for service on the
part of such employees.
l would suggest that something NAV be
done by your honorable board in the matter
OF the appropriation to the Office of Countv
Clerk. The last board allowed for the past
fiscal year 100000. No effort was made bv
that official 10 keep within said sum, and
q re- tod
dehcit OF about $4,000. l have this wear
taken 100000 as being abundantly sufficient
Tor good management OF that Office IL is
supposed that the County Clerk is bv law
obliged to appoint deputies and clerks for
each court whose statutory compensation
would aggregate $3.50. 600 per annum.
tireIy discretionary with that ofaciai ga
and the discretion is governed by the
needs OF each court. 1t is not reasonable TO
suppose that four deputies and three COW
clerks are required Tor each Superior Conrt
continuously, including the vacation periods
OF court
The District Courts (Civn) were allowed one
court clerk, one registry clerk and one conv
clerk; District Courts (Crimlnai)-One court
clerk, one register clerk; copying was done at
cents II folio. The present law does not des
ignate that the County Clerk must appoint
1our deputies 10 each court but that he
mag, appoint four competent persons as
such deputies, assistants and copyists for each
Superior Court" He may also appoint not 10
exceed al any one time three copyists for eacn
Judge, at compensation not 10 exceed So per
day each for the days of actual service rem
dered." If the County Clerk cannot be in
duced TO make the effort TO appoint less per
sons, OF course 100000 viii have to be in
creased to S13O.OOO. otherwise the account
Will again be overdrawn and serve to create a
deficit next year.
The police and fire alarm telegraph superin-
tendent asks for additional extensions and
the ntnng up OF new quarters in City Hall
dome. The necessity o. such is respectfully
submitted to you Tor determination
The court orders, including stenographers'
expenses In criminal cases and the Boys' and
Girls AID Society, are drawn directly upoa the
treasury II is, therefore, difficult To deter
mine proper appropriation-$45,0 900 was al
lowed last year, but an excess of about SSOOO
Will be drawn. The matter is taken by mo
courts from the supervision of the Board of
supervisors or the criticism or examination of
the Auditor and is, therefore an account at va
Rance with all the laws governing the mode of
obtaining money from the treasury, in fact the
money is paid out by the Treasurer weeks he.
fore the account is placed in the Auditors
books.
While 1t may be that the decision of the court
makes it the duty of the Treasurer to nav court
orders perhaps an inveslig alton would prove