Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 69, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 March 1919 — RULES TRUSTEES ARE NOT ENTITLED TO EXTRA PAY. [ARTICLE]

RULES TRUSTEES ARE NOT ENTITLED TO EXTRA PAY.

Ele Stansbury, attorney-general of Indiana, has submitted to Gilbert H. Hendren, chief examiner or the state ‘board of account, an opinion in which he rules that if a township trustee himself .takes the sexennial enumeration of voters the trustee shall receive mo extra compensation for the work, but that if the trustee employs assistants the assistants shall be paid by the county. The county is to stand the expense of blanks and othe materials. A constitutional provision and an 1865 statute provide for the enumeration of male voters each six years. It must be done by the township trustess or trustees and assistants between January 1 and July 1. The enumeration statistics are turned to the auditor of state, to be laid before the next general assembly. The enumeration then becomes the basis on which the state is apportioned for representation in the national congress and in the state general assembly. Originally the county paid all expense of the enumeration, but the 1917 law fixing salaries of township trustees, is interpreted by the attorney-general to forbid the trustees from receiving any extra compensation 'for the work.