Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 265, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 November 1911 — BRITISH MAYORS ILL PAID [ARTICLE]

BRITISH MAYORS ILL PAID

Some of Them Govern Large and Ancient Cities, but Get Very Small Salaries. f The following: Information to cities of the approximate population Of 235,000, that bemg the population of the city In the United States whence the inquiry came as to the salaries of mayors in the cities of the United Kindom: The English city nearest in population to the foregoing number, as far as my investigation went, is Newcastle, the mayor of which receives $2.500 per annum. Additional remuneration is sometimes given to cover expenses on exceptional occasions. There is also an annual’allowance of 5750 for horses and carriages. The population of Dublin (In each instance I am following the British census of 1901), is 290,000. The lord mayor of Dublin for some time received about 118,000 a year, but in November, 1910, thi3 salary was reduced to about 98,000 a year. with a population of makes no allowance to its fc>rd mayor. On exceptional occasions Appropriations are made, but no por'lion of the same is ever used personally by the lord mayor. Bristol, with a population of 328,006, allows its mayor $5,000 annually and s6oo''' toward defraying the expenses of a private secretary. The cost of the upkeep of the municipal coach, men’s wages and livery are defrayed directly out of the public funds. Edinburgh, having a population of 313,000, allows its lord prqvost, corresponding to a lord mayor of an English city, the sum of $5,000 a year. Sheffield, with 380,000 people, allows nothing whatever to its chief muncipal executive. A special committee has recently been appointed to • examine into this question and to report as to the desirability of providing some remuneration. Leeds, with a population of 429,000; Belfast, with 348,000, and Hull, with 193,000, make no allowance for the remuneration of their mayors or lord mayors, as the case may beA In Hull, however, at the time of the coronation of Edward VII., an allowance was made to the lord mayor of SIO,OOO. — United States Consul General, Lon; don.