Smyrna times., 1922-02-15
NO EXTRA CLERKS WILL Be
ALLOWED KENT OFFICIALS
KENT LEVY COURT FOLLOWS
AUDITORS SUGGESTIONS
Some Had No Assistants; Will Prob
ably Have to do Without-Trustees
of the Poor Named

OF the Poor Named
Kent County Levy Court, Tuesday
carefully considered the recommends
lions made by the county auditors of
the comptrollers books and accounts,
as 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 Ridgely $22056
Clerk of Peace Heyd, $101.15; Clerk
of Orphans Court, Cole, SAL; sheriff,
$3.50. The following Trustees of the
Poor were appointed for two years;
Second district, Walter Green; Fourth
l. L. Johnson; Sixth, S. Carl Hughes;
Eighth, Frank Raughley, in place of
James K. Hurd, who is ill; Tenth, Will
liam 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 $2.87 per bushel,
while in 1921 it brought only $115
per bushel. Corn raised on the farm
in 1920 sold for 80 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 small price was received for it.
Mr.. Hughes also said there were ten
more inmates in the institution in 49,
81 than in 1920.
The 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 a 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-
lions in the report of the auditors re-
lating to the multiplicity of clerks in
! the county offices, it was intimateC
= that the auditors should have made
: more specific declaration as to the
situation.
Move for Reduction
| Prothonotary D. M. Ridgely, has ne
deputy or clerk in his office, only be-
ing allowed a clerk for the few day!
in the year when he is in attendance
at the Supreme Court, of which he i!
clerk.
| County Comptroller Meredith, has
no clerk or assistant of any kind anC
never has there been any authorized
for his Office.
| The Levy Court finally adopted the
following resolutions:
"That the resolution adopted by tn,
| Levy Court as at adjourned session
March IL, 1919, be and the same il
hereby repealed, rescinded and mad,
null and void, and that hereafter al
clerks and clerical assistance to coun
ty officials will be made under and il
accordance with the act of the Genera
| Assembly approved March 20, 1921.
| "That from and after Wednesda,
the 18th day of February, 1922, tn
services of all clerks or clerical assist
ance in the Office of the register o
| Wills, the county engineer and tn
| clerk of the peace will be dispense
| with, and no such clerk or clerical as
sistance will be paid after that dat
out of the monies of the county; an
that on and after said date all clerk
in the Office of the recorder of deed.
more than three, will likewise be dis
pensed with, and if continued afte
= said date by the recorder of deed!
the salary of such clerk must be pal
~ by the recorder of deeds, and not on
W of any monies of the county"