Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 178, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 July 1910 — Township Assessors Will Ask Legislature to Increase Pay. [ARTICLE]

Township Assessors Will Ask Legislature to Increase Pay.

Township assessors and their deputies all over the state are dissatisfied with their compensation and an organization is being held to urge the next legislature to increase the pay of assessors. Lewis Temple, county assessor, last week received the following communication from John Boatman, of Edwards, chairman of the committee: “It has become necessary for an increase in wages in order to employ competent men to do the assessing in the state of Indiana, and it is our purpose to organize the entire state, and present a bill to the next legislature to increase the pay of "the assessors and deputies, therefore, you are requested to organize your county (as every other county will do) and appoint one delegate to meet September 13 and 14, 1910, in the state house at Indianapolis for the purpose of framing a bill to be presented to the legislature next winter, demanding an increase of salary for the assessors and deputies. We have the assurance of the state board and we nave also been informed by good authority that the only reason the assessors and deputies do not get more pay is because they have never asked for it. We are sending copies of the circular to every county assessor in the state, and we respectfully ask that they call a meeting at pnce of the township assessors and deputies for the purpose of organizing. We respectfully ask you to give this matter your earliest possible attention, and report to the secretary.”