Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1913-04-26
PAY Of RICHMOND
JURORS WITHHELD
State Auditor Refuses to
Honor Drafts of Corpo-
ration Court.
HOTEL MEN MAY LOSE.
Rammel and WhitestOne Cash War
rants For Jurors and Will be Out
SIS Unless Richmond Men Refund

w. L. Rammel and Robert P. White
stone, proprietors Of the Hotel Ram
mel are bemoaning their kindly as
sistance to IA of the 25 Richmond
jurors who were summoned here 10 try
Lewis Hooff, in the Corporation Court
here this week, for unles sthe Rich
mord people come to their assist
ance the hotel proprietors stand to
lose about SIS on them, because they
cashed the vouchers of the Corpora
tion Court for the jurors mileage
and expenses.
At the conclusion or the Hooff trial
Clerk Greenaway, of the Corporation
Court, issued the warrants for the jul
rors, paying them the customary
rate of five cents per mile for each
mile travelled and their per diem for
their service on the jury which
amounted to 81 for the jurors who
came but did not serve on the jury
and $3.50 for the IL who were actu-
ally jurors.
The warrants were cashed at The
Hotel Ramme is is oftern the case
and this morning Thomas W. Robin
son,city treasurer received special
delivery letter from G.. Lee Moore,
safe auditor, instructing him not to
honor the warrants as the jurors had
ben over paid $3.50 each.
According 10 the auditors inter-
probation of thu law, the jurors
should only have been paid their ac-
tual railway fare from Richmond to
Alexandria and return, which was
$5.5O.As there is no appeal from Mr.,
Moore's opinion, except through the
courts which would involve an extern
sive test Of the Interpretation Of the
law by the Supreme Court of APP
peals, Messrs. Hammer and White
Stone stand to lose $5.5U on each war
rant unless the Richmond people re-
fund the amount which was overpaid
them.
Auditor Moore's letter to Mr.. Rob-
inson is as follows:
Recently jury was summoned from
Richmond City to try case in the
Corporation Court of the City of Alex
andria. | have understood that the
amount of mileage allowed each juror
was $1,000, and I understood the
Clerk Of the Court had issued certifi-
Gates to the several jurors to that eff
feet. ! am, therefore, writing you to
advise you that ] will not pay out Of
the Treasury, mileage of 5000 for
such jurors, and wish ito give you this
information before you cash the certif-
icates issued the jurors.
"Section 4049 of the Code makes the
compensation and mileage of jurors in
criminal cases the same as that pro-
vided for in civil cases by section 316O
of the Code, and this latter section
provides that each juror shall receive
$50 for each days attendance of the
court and 5 cents a mile for each mile
of travel necessarily travelled in going
to and returning from Court, such
mileage, however, in no case to exceed
s1.OO per day. Notwithstanding the
law permits the Court to allow jury
mileage in no event to exceed S1.O(
per day (this provision being baset
upon the idea that the jury will al
ways be from the County in which
the trial ocurs) nevertheless, / thinl
a jury summoned from outside thu
County should receive his actual ex
pense of transportation, and am will
ing to pay allowances which provide
actual expense of transportation (bu
no more for mileage) and the $1.5t
each per diem fixed by law"
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