Milford chronicle., 1922-02-10
mo EXTRA CLERKS
WILL Be ALLOWED
KENT COUNTY LEVY COURT, FOLLOWING
AUDITORS CRITICISM, INAUCUR-
ATES REFORM MOVE.
some HAD NO ASSISTANTS
TRUSTEES OF The POOR WERE ELECTED
FOR two YEARS-W. B. HALL REP
RESENTS 10TH DISTRICT.

Kent County Levy Court, Tuesday
carefully considered the recommenda-
tions made by the county auditors of
the comptrollers books and accounts,
as a result of which radical changes
were suggested as to clerks or assis-
tants in some of the offices.
The reports of county officers for
January showed the following collec-
tions: Recorder of Deeds Coverdale,
$969.OO; Register of Wills Willis,
$325.37; PrOthOnOtary Ridgeiy,
$220.56; Clerk of Peace Heyd, $101.15
Clerk of Orphans Court Cole, SAL;
sheriff, $22.5O.
The following Trustees of the Poor
were appointed for two years: Second
district. Walter Green; Fourth, 1. l..
Johnson; Sixth, S. Carl Hughes;
Eighth, Frank Raughley, in place of
James X. Hurd, who is ill; Tenth,
William B. Hall.
S. Carl Hughes, treasurer of Kent
county almshouse, asked for an ap-
preparation for February of 5000,
which was granted. Mr.. Hughes said
the expenses of the almshouse were
$500 more in 1920 than in 1921. That
in 1920, wheat raised on the county
farm was sold at S2.87 per bushel,
while in 1921 it brought only $1.15
per bushel. Corn raised on the farm
in 1920 sold for SO cents per bushel,
while in 1921 it sold for only 40 cents
per bushel. No better hay was raised
anywhere in the county than on the
county farm last year, he said, but
only a small price was received for
it. Mr.. Hughes also said there were
ten more inmates in the institution in
1921 than in 1920.
This explanation was regarded as a
satisfactory answer to the criticisms
of the special auditors.
No Need of Extra Office
AS to the apparent need of pur-
chasing agent for supplies for the
county offices, it was said the appoint
ment of a special person for this work
would entail another expense, as no
one could be expected to do the work
without compensation, and it was
agreed that the officers making pur-
chases for their offices are using as
much discretion in the matter as
could be expected.
While the Levy Court did not make
any direct reference to the sugges-
tions in the report of the auditors re-
lating to the multiplicity of clerks in
the county offices, it was intimated
that the auditors should have made
more specific declarations as to the
situation.
Move for Reduction
Prothonotary D. M. Ridgely, has no
deputy or clerk in his office, only be-
ing allowed a clerk for the few days
in the year when he is in attendance
at the Supreme Court, of which he is
clerk.
County Comptroller Meredith, has
no clerk or assistant of any kind and /
never has there been any authorized
for his office.
The Levy Court finally adopted the /
resolutions:
"That the resolution adopted by the |
Levy Court as at adjourned session
March II, 1919, be and the same is
hereby repealed, rescinded and made
null and void, and that hereafter all |
clerks and clerical assistance to cOun-
ty officials will be made under and in
accordance with the act of the Gen
eral Assembly approved March %, /
1921.
"That from and after Wednesday,
the 18th day of February, 1922, the
of all clerks or clerical as
sistance in the Office of the register
Of wills, the county engineer and the
clerk of the peace will be dispensed
with, and no such clerk or clerical
assistance will be paid after that date
,,1t of tho 11oOnies Of the county. and
hat on and after said date all clerks
IN the Office of the recorder Of deeds,
more than three, will likewise be dis
oensed with, and if continued after
said date by the recorder of deeds,
he salary of such clerk must be paid
1y the recorder of deeds, and not out
If any monies of the county"