Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1898-03-06
OFFICERS ANXIOUS.
surn,rFs AND coNsTAsLEs WISH
TO KNOW AnoUT THEIR FEES.
COL, BIGGER FLOODED WITH LETTERS
rhcy Cannot secure Copies of tho
Acts Just ut Present, However,
now Far Rctrenchmcnt Recon-
mcndntions Were Observed.

colonel John Bell Bigger. Clerk OF the
House OF Delegates and Keeper OF the
Rolls. Is receiving letters from every Sec
t.5n Of the State inquiring as to the bills
that have become a part of the statutes
Of virginia, and which affect the fees
% the officers who administer the laws
OF me commonwealth.
No definite information can be given
&c 20 the exact shape in which the mea-
s.res have been passed, until the Acts
o. the General Assembly have been print
es About half OF this work has al
ready been completed, but as the bills
r-ating 20 the criminal expenses OF the
s.a,o we're among the last 10 be acted
vp,n. and were only signed by the Gov
sruor within the past few days, they are
not yet In type. 1t is estimated that
$4,000 annually win be saved the State
as a result Of the passage Of these mea-
sures. Under the new law. a sheriff, con-
stable. or justice of the peace is allowed
only half Of the fee which he formerly
received. IN case he collects it from tho
state. should he collect 1t from the de-
PENDANT or prosecutor. however. he is
allowed the fun amount. and in some
cases an additional fee.
NOT ALI OBSERVED.
To will probably be interesting 70 many
Oh know just how far the recommended
lions OF the special Committee on the
T1peaditures OF Public Institutions were
carried out 10 the APPROPRIATION bill as
passed by the General Assembly.
The committee recommended that the
present Capitol police force be abolished,
and that in their stead fave Confederate
y .teTans be appointed, at a salary of $40
each per month and two uniforms year.
The appropriation bill provides for six
policemen at a salary of 500 per month,
and there Is no clause reQuiring that these
officers shall be veterans OF the late war.
In the case of the Appropriation to the
Western state Hospital, the appropriation
l.. makes a reduction OF 5000 below the
amount recommended by the special COM
uittee. Phe later recommended that
the appropriation to that institution be
reduced from 100000 TO $500, while the
uu only allows it $4,000
reduction Of from $4,000 TO $4,000 was
recommended as TO the appropriation to
the Eastern State Hospital. The latter
institution was cut, however. only $3.50.
The Southwestern State Hospital, had
the recommendation Of the committee
been observed, would have received an
appropriation of SO 900. AS il was, the
institution was allowed $1,000 a reduction
OF aO)O.
V. NJ. I. TO GET A HEATER.
The committee recommended that the
Virginia Military Institute be reduced
from S35. 600 TO $4,000. This recommended
ton was carried out, but an additional
s. go was allowed the institution for the
first year. this amount TO be used IN
the construction Of heating apparatus.
That historic institution Of learning,
william and Mary College, under the
knife Of the committee would have been
cut I'm half as far as its appropriation
was concerned but the Legislature al
lowed IT $1,000 no reduction whatever
being made.
The Medical College of Virginia would
have Jared even worse. ana would nave
mean abolished altogether, so far as the
States interest in the institution was
but the Alma Mater OF so
many of Virginia leading physicians
was spared. and got OFF, with an appro-
uriatiOn Of $1,000 -f
The committee recommended that no
be made in the appropriation
OF $4,000 TO the Virginia Normal and Col
legiate Institute and this institution
came out OF the great battle without
scar. The State Female Normal School
also left the field with barely scratch.
A small appropriation allowed her Tor
building purposes was cut off, but the
general appropriation was not reduced
CUT DOWN THE VARSITY.
Virginia's greatest institution. and one
Of which she is justly proud, Jared, pro-
badly. as we'll as could be expected under
tbe circumstances. The committee re-
commended that the University's appro-
uriation be reduced from $4,000 70 AOOO,
while the Legislature compromised the
matter by splitting the difference ana
allowing the Institution $4,000.
The committee recommended that the
Sl5 900 appropriated TO the Virginia Poly
tacbnic institute, at Blacksburg, be con-
tlnued. This was done but the recon-
rnendation that the Department OF Agrl-
culture be transferred from Richmond 10
pIarksburg was not carried out. How
ever the department was not allowed any
spproprlation with which To conduct the
work other than the revenues derived
from the fertilizer tax.
The. recommendation that the once ol
Rsgister of the Land Office be abolished
Vas observed. and its duties were trans
fsrre6 ia the Secretary Of the Common
wealth. The latter office, however, Is al
loved an additional clerk at a salary Oh
e. HH. i'm