The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-09-20

| than they received last yeas Some of the New 0mces. | The new offices created by the Legis- lature will call for tidy sum. The | State Tax Commission will cost the State each year for It's three members. | it's clerk and its travelling expenses, | the sum of $22,000. This amount will | be paid to the Commission annually while 1t is trying to get taxes on a ba- sis that will prevent a deficit in the 1 Treasury.
 The Inspector of Jails, Cotton Mills l and Aims Houses will receive an annual salary of S3.000, At the summer session, the figures of which have not yet been obtained, provision was made for an Assistant Inspector and for other ex- penses connected with the office. Both places are new offices created by the present Legislature.
 The appropriation for the work of the Department of Health has been largely increased. The increase will amount to $13,9S3 annually.
 Most of the new offices created were or Judicial nature and we'll scattered throughout the State. Since the Legis- lature adjourned, the single county of Jenerson has nine judges of jurisdict- Ion equal to that of a Circuit judge In other words Jefferson County has prac- tically as many circuit judges as the entire State of Alabama had a dozen years ago. Three of these judges were named to fill places created by the pres ent Legislature.
 The increase in the salaries of the state House employees would have been staggering to legislative ideas of six years ago, but the present Legislature Ifted salaries without worrying over what lawmakers of other years might have thought.
 Raises in the Departments.
 Tha an1nllaRf was made in the Governors office. be- cause the previous Legislature had raised both the salary of the Governor and the salary of the Executive Secre- tary. A raise of $500 was given the Recording Secretary and no other raise was made in that Department.
 Salaries in the Auditors office were raised by $1.s00 a year
 A raise of $1.2oo a year was made in the office of the Secretary of State.
 The increase of expenses in the office Of the Superintendent of Education was $6,160.
 In the office of Attorney General the salary raise amounted only to S65O.
 The State Tax Commission, with four new officers, took the largest single sum of any of the departments from the treasury. It will cost $22,OOo year to pay the salaries and expenses of the Tax Commission.
 Salaries of the State Treasurer's as- sistants, together with that of the Treasurer amounted to 9I,05O.
 The Capitol watchmen will get $1,272 more than they got last year. There will be paid to the Capitol servants $1,- OSO more than they have been paid.
 Going a little further into the in crease of the States living expenses if Is seen that the Supreme Court em- ployes will cost the State $2.4sO more than they have been previously paid.
 The Department of Archives and His tory was given an additional S1,95O.
 The Military Department gets $5. 900 more than 1t has been getting.
 The Health Department gets the sub- stantial increase of $13,9S3.
 The increase of the expenses of the Agricultural Department amounts only to $1,050.
 The increase of salaries in the Con- vict Department will figure up to $2.- $50. ""'
 The State Livestock Board, a. new in- stitution, will call for $5.ooo each year.
 The Inspector of Jails and Cotton Mills will get salary of $3,0OO annu- ally and his assistant will receive at least half as much. And there is smaller appropriation for the expenses of the office.
 The Bureau of Cotton Statistics will cost at least $3,000 a year and at the summer session a bill making an addl- tional appropriation was passed,
 The State will pay $75O more for fueI lights and water than 1t ever paid be- fore.
 The Governors contingent fund was increased by $500 and public printing and binding will cost the State S1O, OOv year more than ever before.
 Stationary and postage will call for an additional 32.5O0 and the Jamestown Exposition Commission, which did not send an exhibit to Jamestown. cost the state only S2S3.
 The additional appropriation for the Soldiers Home called for $7340
 The expenses of the Railroad Com mission were provided for by an in crease of $4.6oo.
 Tn the above list no school appropria- tion is alluded to and in only one In. stance is mention made of an appro- priation for the benefit of the old sol- diers. No, all the money did not go for schools and the old soldiers-not by a good deal.
 Some Summer Appropriations.
 The appropriation bills passed by the summer session are not easy or access and only the big appropriations are re- called. But 1t Is known that $50 900 was appropriated for the attorneys who are representing the State in the rail- road litigation.
 The sum of s25.o00 annually was ap- propriated for the Colony for Tuber- cular Patients.
 The sum of $31, ,o00 was appropriated for the printing of the new Code.
 A bill increasing the pay of sherifrs for feeding prisoners will cost the State, so it is said. $4O,OOO annually. but the definite figures are not obtainable as the schedule was put on a sliding scale.
 Then the tobacco tax was refunded and 1t will amount to $20O00.
 The State will continue the payment of the refund of the tax on solvent credits, which Is estimated to figure up to $50. 900, but large part of that has already been paid,