Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1911-01-24
FIXES SALARY OF
 THE PROSECUTOR Senator Toney Would Place Office on a Salary of $1,
 800 Annually.
MONEY FOR DEPUTIES
Circuit Judge May Select Their Pay Out of Fees and COmmis.
 sions of Office.

state Senator II. K. Toney, of this county, president of the Senate yes. tefday introduced a bill in the uppe,
 branch of the General Assembly a,
 Little Rock, fixing the compensatior
 or the prosecuting attorney of this
 the Eleventh Judicial District. ant
 regulating the payment thereof Ir
 the measure Senator Toney fixes the
 salary of the prosecutor at $1,SO0 pel
 annun' and provides that the three Counties, Jefferson, Desha and Lin
 coin composing the district shall pay
 the salary in one and two thirt shares. Under the law the circ,,i
 Judge of the district has the auth or1ty to allow a certain sum out Q
 the fees and commissions earned h,
 the prosecuting attorney and his de- putles, for the services of the var,
 ous deputies. s''
 The bill, Senator Toney said last h1ght would be passed by the Senate Will be taken up today. It follows
 A Bill for an act to he entitled
 An act to fix the compensation of the Prosecuting Attorney of the Eley- enth Judicial Circuit; to regulate the payment thereof, and for other pur- poses.
 Be it Enacted By the General As-
 sembly of the State of Arkansas:
 Section One That in addition to the salary now allowed and paid by the state of Arkansas, the Prosecut- Ing Attorney of the Eleventh Judicial Circuit shall receive salary of eigh- teen hundred dollars per annum. to De paid quarterly by the several count es composing said district in the following proportions, to-wit: by Lincoln county, one-sixth; by Desha county one-sixth, and by Jefferson county, two thirds. Be it further enacted, etc.,
 section Two. That said prosecut- ing attorney shall continue to charge. collect and receive all fees and con- miss ons now allowed him by law. Be 1t further enacted, etc.,
 Section Three. That said nrose- cutting attorney shall keep a book in which he shall enter an accurate &C., count of all fees and commissions received or earned by him either in person or by his deputies, showing therein the style of the case, the na- ture of the charge, the court or off, cer before whom it was tried, the date Of the trial, the county wherein tried and the amount of the fee or commits sion allowed by law without abate- ment or illumination, and what de- putty, If any. prosecuted the case. The book so kept shall be a public record of his office and shall be subject at all times to inspect on by the circuit judge of the circuit, and by the grand jury. county judge and com- missioners of accounts of any county of said judicial jcircu't. Be it further etc,
 Section Four That at each and every regular term of the circuit court held in any county in said circuit said prosecuting attorney shall, on the first day of the term, lille theren an itemized account, veri- fled by his oath to be true and cor rect, showing in detail, end in ac- cordance with the book account re- quired to be kept by section three of this act, every fee and commission earned by himself or his deputies :n said county during the six months next preceding the beginning of said court. Upon the filing of such ac- count the circuit court may proceed to audit and verify the same, or may, in it's discretion, refer the same to the commissioners of accounts of the county, Whose duty it shall be to at once proceed to audit the same by comparison with the records of the court and examination of the dock cts and official reports of the just res Of the peace of said county. and said