The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1919-02-21
WOULD PUT LOUIS AND
MACK IN O ONE CORNER
Saunders Introduces a. Bill to Subdivide Elizabeth
City Wards-,WIiiII WiIll Increase Register
of Deeds Salary, But, :,
BY w. o. SAUNQERS

T W. Munden, Register: se1
Deeds and clerksex ofacio to the
Board of Commissioners Of Pas
o,1otank county wantsshis sal
arv raised from $2,100 to 2,4Oo
a wear. More than 36osproperty
owners and tax payers in Pas
ouotank have petitioned your re-
nresentative to grant MF. Mum
den the raise. The office. of Reg
ister of Deeds OF. Pasquotank
should pay ,$2,a00 a year, Con
sidering the fact that the Regis
ter of Deeds has to pay all of his
clerical expenses out of that sum.
Mr.. Munden himself is most eff
fcient officer, a courteous and
Obliging gentleman and a val1-
able county asset. Nevertheless
YOUR representative has opposed
raising the salary of the Register
of Deeds. This opposition is bas7
ed largely upon the fact that the
Register of Deeds also holds the
Office of Justice of the Peace and,
in addition to the salary which
he now receives, gets consider
able remuneration from, mar
riage licensees.
It is notorious fact that Registers
Of Deeds in the border counties Of North
Caroline act as Justices of the Peace,
issuing licenses to wed and then marry
ing their licensees. This dual role oc-
cupied by Registers of Deeds is odious
to every sense of decency and offensive
TO a true democracy. It encourages
bigamy and unlawful weddings. It
makes the marriage contract between
irresponsible and unfit persons too cas-
lily obtainabe.
After carefully considering the app1i-
csat.o; Il aE-.s al ssnfl EN- and s51iz pgttfong
for an increase in salary. your Repre-
sentative has. without consultation with
any other person, drawn a bill which he
has submitted to Mr.. Munden for his
approval. The bill will increase the
salary of the Register of Deeds of Pas
Quotank County provided he ceases to
lie q Justice of the Peace. If the office
Of Justice of the Peace is worth more
10 him than the raise in salary, he can
keep the Office of Justice of the Peace
and let his salary remain as it is. Here
is the bill
4 BILL TO BE ENTITLED, " AN ACT
TO REGULATE THE SALARY OF
THE REGISTER OF DEEDS OF
PASQUOTANK COUNTY"
The General Assembly of North Caro-
lima do Enact:
Section 1. That the salary of the
Register of Deeds of Pasquotank Coun-
ty shall be two thousand four hundred
dollars ($2,400.00) per annum, provided
the Register of Deeds of Pasquotank
county shall hold no other Office of pro-
fit during his term of Office as Register
of Deeds and clerk ex-officio to the
Board Of Commissioners of Pasquotank
County.
Sec ?. That if the Register of Deeds
of Pasquotank County elects to hold
the Office or position of Justice of the
Peace while occupying the Office of
register of Deeds of Pasquotank Coun-
y his salary shall be as heretofore pro-
Fided in chapter 81; Publc-Local Laws
" A11o DIS dmenQeO Oy Cnapler zoo, HuD-
Hc-Local Laws of 1917.
Sec. 3. That all laws and clauses of
laws in conflict with this statute are
hereby repealed.
Sec. !. That this act shall be in eff
feet from and after March 1st, 1919
our Representative has introduced
only one bill effecting the town charter
90 Elizabeth City. He introduced a bill
W ednesday providing for a subdivision
of the wards of Elizabeth City giving
each ward TWO subdivisions and per-
fIttlng each subdivision to choose it's
own Alderman. The subdivisions of the
flrSt and Second Wards may not meet
with the approval of the Mack Sawyer
machine, because they throw Mack
sawyer and Louis Anderson into one
subdivision and J. B. Ferebee, Matthias
owens. Tully Wilson, ct al into one
SUBDIVISION Under this arrangement it
r.1, 1,<lf be impossible for any neighbor-
'oo group in any ward to control the
'ectlon OF both Aldermen from that
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dany OF our soldiers have been thru