The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1916-02-01
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n Not very long ago the Mount Hol
papers were referred to as CLANS" b
IS within the last week the fellow WI
Y made this awful accusation seems
8 have joined the ''clam" ranks. Poss
bly, it is by instructions from counsel.
i, freeholders do not take kindly to til
8 new law which gives them yearly sa
] i airy Of $500 instead of per diem pay fC
work done. They claim that in man
, of the townships members who do nc
! have half the work that is required i
other places, will get the same pay a
those who are continually at it. This
SO in the case of committees that fin
something to do about four days out c
every six. In one case on the books O
the auditor it may be noticed that free
holder drew nearly $500 for his persona
bill, while there are others who did no
get one-third of that amount. Now they
are all on an equal footing. But it will
not make any difference how much of {
protest goes up, the law is mandatory
and the salaries will have to stand unit
the act can be repealed. The county
auditor does not now have the authority
to approve personal bills"
! The Bordentown Register Of Friday,
contained the following: by some pro-
cess of reasoning best known to them
selves, the freeholders decided to reverse
themselves at Wednesdays meeting,
and the Mount Holly Mirror, Repub-
hcan organ, was designated as the paper
to publish the annual report of the
county auditor. At the last meeting
the Democratic members succeeded in
having Bordentown recognized, and for
awhile there seemed to be possibility
that one of the reports would be pub
action, the members have confined all
county reports othe Mirror and Herald,
both Mount Holly papers," The Regis
ter should interview Mr.. Delaney, one of
the members from Bordentown. At the
January meeting a resolution was
adopted giving the printing to the Her.
aid and Mirror. Then Mr.. Delaney in
troduced resolution resembling that
action and substituting the Bordentown
Register for the Mirror. AT the meet
ing on Wednesday, Mr.. Delaney was on
hand with another "rescinder" by. which
the printing was taken from his home
paper and placed in Mount Holly. The
Register should keep its home members
closer in control.
1t is doubtful if many stockholders
give much thought to the advantage to
them of having big men in the boards of
directors of the corporations in which
they are interested. Banks and trust
companies have the benefit of the judg-
ment and the services Of the very best
versed men, respecting business and
financial affairs. Dropping into one of
the large city banks on the day preced-
ing its annual meeting there was obsery-
ed the treasurer of the premier railroad
in the country and the president of
a large industrial corporation, busily
engaged in doing committee work pre-
liminary to the annual meeting. This
labor was all extra, but such men take
pride in performing the duties and in
seeing that the work is properly done.
Most boards appoint committee of
their own members to go over all of the
assets of the bank and place their own
estimate upon them, so as to satisfy all
directors. This is an arduous task and
some compensation is allowed for the
work, but it is worth great deal more
to the shareholders than the actual ex-
penditure to have men of the highest
business standing to do this work as ex-
perts. Directors serving a large and
active bank need to be alert and vigil
ant all through the year and they gen.
orally are, regardless of money compen-
sation.
The annual attempt to abolish the
County Tax Boards has been made and
two bills with that idea in view have
been introduced in the Legislature. 1T
is not proposed to do away with the
County Boards but the move is to have
Boards appointed so that the county
will pay the salaries and the state will
be relieved of that burden. One of the
bills proposes to abolish the office of
secretary as elected from outside and
have one of the members of the Board
act in that capacity. The salaries in
both bills have been materially reduced.
Where the members of the Burlington
County Board now get 81, 200 the salary
would be cut down to $3.50 each for two
members in one instance and $500 in
another. In one case there would be
County Assessor who would receive
81, 200. The bill is supposed to make
the two associate members simply a
board to hear appeals, but in looking
over the work they would have to do it
is hard to discover where the labors will
be decreased much, if any. So far as we
have been able to see the new bills do
not offer any improvement over the
present system except, possibly, in the
REDUCTION of salaries. While 800 per
month may be too much for the work
we are not willing to acknow-
ledge that where Board attends to it's
duties and does not make the place
merely sinecure-we are of the opinion
that the County Boards of Taxation
have done effective work in many
localities and there does not seem to be
any necessity for abolishing them.