The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1897-09-18
4 COUNTY DISPENSARY NOW.
PUT IN CHARGE OF THE CoUN-
TY PHYSICIAN.
surveyor Boyd Explains How He
Put In the Bills for His Assist
ants Work With His Own.

When the Supervisors met in session
yesterday morning a change in the
management of the City Dispensary
was preached, putting it in charge of
the County Physician. This places it
IN the same position as it was num-
Der Of years ago.
Morrison said that there had been
proposition to place the management
of the City Dispensary in care of the
County Physician. He had spoken to
DR.. White about it, and the latter had
said that if the change was made, he
would give his attention to it, and could
place a competent physician there who
would attend to the patients and those
in the city that We're necessary. The
county now provides the office and pays
for the drugs, and he thought it would
be economy for it to take the manage
ment of the dispensary also.
He was satisfied that if it were so,
many cases that are now sent to the
County Hospital would not then go
there, and thus the county would be
saved much. DR.. Ogden is a capable
physician, and the speaker had nothing
to say against him, but he believed if
the whole thing We're placed under the
management of the dispensary it would
be for economy and other reasons, the
change would be for the better.
Supervisor Mclaughlin said he could
not sec any reason for the change. The
dispensary had got along very well
heretofore, and he did not favor the
change The city now pays the salary
of the physician, and he did not see
why the county should assume lit.
Morrison said he was satisfied that it
would result in economy to the county,
for the reason he had stated.
Supervisors brennan and Curtis also
thought that it would be economical.
Morrison said the City Trustees had
power to employ a City Physicion at
$1,000 a year but had cut the place
down to a days salary and given him
an assistant at a small salary and
then expected them to give their full
time . it.
MOrrison's motion to place the County
DispeEsary under the management of
the County Physician, authorizing him
to employ a physician to take charge
of it at a salary of $50 was carried,
Mclaughlin voting no.
SURVEYOR BOYD'S CLAIMS.
County Surveyor Boyd, being pres
ent, Supervisor Morrison asked him to
explain how it was that his bills for
February were put in for more days
than there were in the month. He did
not know whether the Surveyor could
put in bill for his deputy's work I'M
der the order of the board for him to
prepare maps for the Assessor.
Mr. Boyd said the Supreme Court had
decided on more than one case that the
work of the deputy is the work of the
Law haf
veyor must make the maps. and that
his compensation shall be so a day.
He held that eight hours is a legal days
work. and that if he worked sixteen
hours a day he had a perfect right to
charge for two days work, and that
50 long as the work was properly done,
he had a right to work on Sundays and
holidays, and charge for it. The order
for the maps was delayed and given
TO him so late that alone he could not
have possibly finished it by the first
of March. if he and his assistant had
not worked day and night to finish it.
The bills have been before the board
for five months, and if there was any
question as to them, the matter could
have been referred to the District At
torney for his opinion.
Supervisor Mclaughlin asked. in re-
lation to a bill for $34 for work by
the Deputy Surveyor, and Mr.. Boyd
explained that the board ordered a
survey of some work on Suffer Island,
to be reported at the next meeting. AS
he himself was engaged in a tour of
inspection in company with the board
he could not possibly have done both
pieces of work within the limited time.
Supervisor Morrison stated that If
there was any question about the
claims, the opinion of the District At
torney should have been secured. 1t
was no more trouble then than now,
and since then the law has been
changed, so that holding a claim for
more than three months by the board
has the effect of rejecting it. The Opin-
ion Will have to be eventually given.
Chairman Jenkins said there was no
desire on the part of the board to de-
lay the claims, and no belief that they
were not proper ones. The board sim
ply wished to have the bills explained.
Now that they are explained, there is
no reason that the District Attorney
should not pass on them.
On motion of Morrison, the District
Attorney was requested to examine the
bills aud report on Monday whether