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LEVY COURT BUSINESS.
Warrants Aggregating $1,000 Were
Passed at Yesterdays Session Of
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Warrants Aggre9ating $1,000 Were
Passed at Yesterdays Session Of
That Body.
For new indices OF the records in the
Office of Recorder OF Deeds CORTLAND G..
Montgomery the Levy Court yesterday
morning passed warrants aggregating
81, 900, the amounts to be divided as fol-
lows:
Recorder Montgomery, $1,000.
James W. Ponder, Commissioner, ST,
5OO
Peter L. Cooper, Jr., Commissioner,
$500.
Preliminary to the passage Of the war
rants, Clerk Janvier read a certificate
from Chief Justice Charles B. Lore and
Associate Justices Spruance and Grubb
which recited the fact Of the passage of
the act authorizing the work, which was
passed May q, 1897, by the Legislature,
the appointment OF Messrs. Ponder and
Cooper, by Judge Grubb, as authorized
by the act, and the examination of the
certificate of the commissioners dated
November 28, 1898. The judges there
upon fixed 81, 900 as a just and reason
able compensation for the Recorder OF
Deeds and 81, 500 for each of the Com
missioners.
According to. the provision of the act,
the indices cover the period subsequent
to 1873 and prior to January l, 1897, and
are made pursuant to the Campbell sys-
tenn.
After hearing the certificate OF the
Superior Court judges, the Levy Court
saw nothing else to do but pass the war
rants First the communication was re-
ceived and filed; then resolution was
adopted appropriating $1,000 out Of the
unappropriated funds of the county to
the appropriation for indices, and then
orders were passed in behalf of each of
the men to be compensated.
In speaking of the matter afterwards,
Chairman W. A. Scott appeared to feel
that it was rather large bill to require
the county to pay, one in which the
court itself had practically no say. He
reverted to the fact that since he has
been member OF the court several
amounts have been paid out for similar
work. The procedure has been for the
Legislature to pass an act authorizing
the making Of indices and the county
has to foot the bill, which is generally
very large.
The following figures show what
amounts have been paid for such pur-
poses beginning in October 1893:
October 3, 1893, Recorder of Deeds,
James T. Shallcross, $1,000; Commits.
sloners Frank Biggs and A. E. Sanborn,
81, 600 each.
November l3, 1894, Commissioners w.
I. Lyman, George T. Brown and Peter
L. Cooper, Jr., ST, 800 each.
December 5, 1895, Prothonotary Peter
A. Horty, 81 900; Commissioners Victor
B. Woolley and Branch II. Giles, 500
each.
July 27, 1897, Register in Chancery
Colen Ferguson, $780, Commissioners
Andrew G. Gray and Charles B. Evans,
$3.50 each.
December 20, 1896, Recorder of Deeds
Montgomery, $4,000; Commissioners
$25, 800.
While the expense of the indices was
being discussed after the meeting, Chair
man Scott drew the attention Of Repre-
sentatlve-elect John P. Donahoe, who
was in the court room, to the matter, and
requested him to see that the Legis!at ure
did not pass any more acts authorizing
such work.
In the course of the morning session,
Samuel W. Handy. who had failed to
appear at the required time for qualif.
cation as assessor, for Brandywne hun
dred, was appointed to that position and
sworn in.
The court yesterday afternoon passed
the monthly pay-rolls, go that employees
OF the county can have their pay in time
for Christmas expenses.