The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1902-02-27
County Matters.

Our representatives IN the general as
sembly have made number of important
changes in our county government, which
will be of interest to the taxpayers.
Salaries for county officers were fixed as
follows:
Auditor, $500, S533 to be paid by the
State and $267 by the county; Treasurer,
$500, $5333 to be paid by the State and
$2G7 by the county, the Treasurer also to
receive so cents for each tax execution
issued; Sheriff 5000 and 20 cents per day
for dieting prisoners in Jail (however,
in the supply bill this was changed to
$500, this amount to be in lieu of all fees,
the prisoners to be fed by the county,;
Clerk of Court $3.50; Supervisor, $500;
township commissioners $100 per day;
members of county board of commission
ers and county board of equalization, $500
per day and cents per mile; clerk of
county board, 1925; superintendent OF
education, So (there is no provision made
in the supply bill for the payment OF this
item); coroner, 500.
Salaries of magistrates and constables
were fixed as follows: Denmark, $500,
constable, 5000; Bamberg, 5000, constable,
$170; Ehrhardt, 800, constable, 500;
Olar, 800, constable, 500. The magis-
trates at Govan and Fishpond were done
away with, and the magistrate at Olar
is required to hold court one day out of
each week at Govan, while the magistrate
at Ehrhardt will look after the work in
the Fishpond district.
N. P. Smoak, who was magistrate at
Fispond was appointed on the board OF
supervisors of registration, IN place OF y.
w. Rowell, who has moved out OF the
county.
The following changes in township
commissioners were made: j. ). Simmons
for Bamberg township, in place of Capt.
w. S. Bamberg, who declined to serve.
H. A. Hughes for Three Mile township,
in place of G. B. Kinard, who declined to
serve. DR.. S. P. Rentz for Fishpond
township, in place of Jno. Cooner, who
has moved TO BamDerS.
The supply bill makes the following
appropriations for the different county
expenses: Taxes for ordinary county
purposes, four mills; for Auditor, $267;
for Treasurer, $267; for Sheriff, $500; for
Coroner, 800; FOR Supervisor, $500; for
magistrates and constables, $1,260; for
courts, $4,000; for printing and all manner
of advertisements, $50; for maintaining
chain gang, $4,000; for roads and bridges,
81 900; for county physician, 1925, and he
is required, with some other physician, to
examine all parties in lunacy proceedings
and to conduct all post mortem eyamlna-
tions without extra compensation; Tor
extra physician in examining lunatics, $50;
for county attorney, $3.50, to be IN full tor
all services; for the special road district
of Denmark, one mill; for fuel for county
offices, $50. :,
The county treasurer was authorized
to borrow a sufficient sum OF money to
pay the balance of the current expenses
of the county, after the expenditure OF
the money now on hand; this officer was
also authorized to borrow money to pay
salaries of teachers in the public schools.
He was also authorized to borrow SUI
ficient sum to repay the school fund what
the county is now owing said fund.
The profits accruing to the county from
the dispensary shall be held as county
funds and to be applied first to the ex-
penses of the county chain gang and to
the repair of roads and bridges, any
balance to ordinary county expenses.
1t is but fair to the delegation to state
that the amount to be paid to magistrates
and constables is the same as last year, as
cutting out the magistrates at Govan and
Fispond offsets the raise in salary to some
of the other magistrates and constables.