Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-03-03

lature and as It is being construed by
its author the treasurer would receive the
following:
saiary -; ...-..'.....-.-...-$ 10000
Salary as city treasurer. ..... $500 90
Salary as school treasurer ,. 1906. 90
Delinquent Barrett law fees. 2G40 40
Total estimated profit ........ $40, 2l5. CO
The bill provides employees OF the yari-
Ous Offices shall be paid out OF the gen
er1 fund OF the county, into which the
fees collected by the officials must be
turned. Assistants viii be employed with
the approval OF the county commissioners.
WOULD PREVENT
JAIL SCANDAL.
1t does away entirely with the CO.
centsa-day system Of feeding prisoners
placing the expenditures for operation
Of the jail in the hands Of the commits
sioners and preventing repetition OF the
recent jail scandal expose. The fee sys-
TEN has been the root Of more trouble IN
Marion County affairs than possibly any
other one thing.
The full text Of the bill under which
most Of the fee system is done away
with follows:
Section !. Be It enacted by the Cen
eral Assembly Of the State OF Indiana
that In counties having a population of
800 600 or more, according to the last
preceding United States census. the fol-
lowing named sums shall be the salaries
Of he respective officials named herein !:
The clerk OF the Circuit Court shah re-
teiVe an annual salary Of $500: the
county auditor shall receive an annual
salary Of $500; the county recorder
shall receive an annual salary of $1,000 /;
the county sheriff shall receive an annual
salary of $500; the county treasurer
shall receive an annual salary Of 5000 I;
the prosecuting attorney shall receive
an annual salary OF $500 The salaries
named herein shall be In fun for all
services and no other compensation or
fees of any nature shall be paid to any
Of the above officials except as herein
provided; provided, that the county treas
urer shah serve as the treasurer Of the
civil city and the treasurer of the school
city of any county seat city located in
such county and for such service he shall
receive no compensation except as pro-
vided in this act.
Sec. 2 At the beginning Of his term
of office and of each calendar year each
official named herein shall make out q
schedule Of the number of deputies and
assistants necessary to conduct the bust
ness of his office with the salaries at
tached thereto, which schedule shall be
first approved by the county council in
Joint session. II more deputies or assist
ants are needed after said schedule is
adopted any official may make a show
ing Of such necessity, at any time and
such officials may be authorized by the
county council in Joint session to en-
ploy such needed help. All such depu-
ties and assistants shall be appointed
and may be removed by the county Off
cials under whom such deputies and as
sistants shall serve; provided, however,
that no deputy shall receive a salary to
exceed 5000 a month for time actually
employed except the deputy treasurer,
who may receive salary not to exceed
$4,000 per year.
Sec. 9. All fees. interest, penalties,
costs, fines and forfeitures. provided by
law shall be collected by the proper Of
ticials and shall be paid into the county
treasury, except fees on delinquent tax
assessments, which fees shall be dis
tributed as now provided by law; also
except foreign fees collected by the sher-
if, which shall belong to and be the prop
erty Of the sheriff. 1t shall be unlawful
for an official named herein to retain any
fee as his own except as herein provided.
Sec. 4. Deposits must be made of
all funds Of any character whatsoever
coming into the custody of any official
named IN this act and such funds shall
be held subject to the provision of the
depository laws of the State of Indiana.
Sec. 9. All allowances made Tor the
feeding of county prisoners by the county
sheriff shall be expended by such official
under the direction Of county commits
siOners. There shall be no profit accrue
to such officials as a result of such al
lowance and the county sheriff shall ap-
point such deputies as shall be necessary
for the feeding of prisoners at cost to
the county.
Sec. 6. ANY official contemplated in this
act who may be required under the law
TO give an official bond shall give such
bond with surety company authorized
by law to transact business in the State
Of Indiana and the cost of the bond
shall be paid by the county.
Sec. Z. This act is not to be construed
as diverting any portion of fees, inter-
est, penalties, costs, fines or forfeitures
from any public fund, as now provided
by law, but is to be construed as sup
Elementary to such existing laws.
Sec. 8. The provisions of this act shall
not affect any official herein named dur
ing the term for which he has hereto
fore been elected.
Sec. 8. All laws and parts Of laws in
conflict with this act are hereby repealed.
The bill was pilOte in the Senate by
Senator Winfield Miller, indianapolis,
who declared its enactment would save
Marion County 100000 a year Senator
William Z. English. Indiana polls, OBJ
jected to passage of the bill on the
ground that tie Legislature has already
provided for an investigation into sal