Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 28, Number 14, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 April 1879 — Page 7

.0T8t .u .furry. JiVriHffoK ta(1X(?:iw ,j:iv;r rz:ii u i'T-: , v , HIf ,.UI THE INDIANA STArrE SENTTNEfc WEDNESDAY MOBKIKG, APKIL 2, 1879.

'TEE AND SALARY BELL,"

Arranging Salaries and Fee of All State and County Officers, as Passed the Legislature, March 87, 1879. Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Indiana, That the persons and officers in this act named shall be entitled to charge and receive for their services as such officers the salaries, fees and compensation allowed and set oat in this act, and none other, except as otherwise provided by law. See. 2. The salary of the -governor shall be 95,000 per year, hich shall be in fall for all services and house rent. The salary of the governor's private secretary shall be (lU) per year. Bee. 3. Tbe aUary of thejsecretary of state Shall be f2,0ut) per year. - - The salary of the deputy secretary of state shall be 11.500 per year. The salary of the clerk of the secretary of state shall be 1700 per year. Sec. 4. The secretary of state shall be authorzed to charge and receive the following fees, to be paid by the parties requiring the services: Provided, that no fees shall be charged against the United States, or this or any other State, or any county of this State, nor against any officer of either of them, for any attestation, certificate or paper required by them for official nse : For each commission to notaries public, II. For each commission to commissioners of deeds and filing qualifications. S3: Provided, that one-half of all such fees received shall be paid into the State treasury. For each attestation and seal other than herein exempted, 50 cents. For filing and recording each article, charter or certificate of incorporation, not exceeding 200 words, SI. For all recording and copying of records, papers and documents not otherwise provided for, per Loo words, four figures counting as one word, 10 cents. Sec. 5. The clerk of the printing bureau si. all receive a salary of 1,200 per year, and in addition to the duties now prescribed by law, he shall fully and properly index, correct and prepare the Senate and House Journals, and superintend their printing and proof to the satisfaction of the secretary and auditor of state. Sec. 6. The salary of the auditor of state shall be 81,50 per year. The salary of the deputy auditor ol state Shall be $1,500 per year. The salary of the clerk in the insurance department shall be $1,200 per year. The salary of the clerk In toe land department shall be, at the discretion of the auditor of state, not more than Il,2u0 per year. Sec. 7. The salary of the adjutant general shall be S1.250 per year. Provided that no fees shall be charged or received by said adjutaut for any services in furnishing or giving any honorably discharged soldiers a certificate or copy of any record or paper on file in his office. Sec. 8. The salary of the quartermaster general shall be J3U0 per year. Sec. 9. The salary of the treasurer of state shall be f.s,O0O per year. The salary of the depnty treasurer of state shall be 1,600 per year. The treasurer of state shall be allowed for a night watchman the sum of $600 per year. Sec. 10. The salary of the attorney general shall be $2,500 per year. The salary of the clerk of the attorney general shall be ttiOO per year. Sec. 11. The salary of the superintendent ol public instruction shall be $2,500 p?r year. The salaries of the two clerks of the superintendent of public instruction shall be jyjo each per year. Sec. 12. The salary of the law librarian shall be $1,200 Der year. Sec. 13. The salary of the state librarian "shall be l,2u0 per year. The salary of the assistant state librarian shall be Vm. Sec. II. The several sums herein allowed, payable out of the State treasury, shall be paid quarterly as provided by law, out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated. Sec. 15. The fees of the clerk of the supreme court shall be as follows: For every writ or process nnder seal, 50 cents. For every copy of record or other paper, par 100 words, four figures counting as one word, or if the whole number of words In such copy be less than 100 words, 10 cents. For entering satisfaction of record, 10 cents. For taking, approving and recording oihuial bond, and all affidavits and certificates connected therewith, $1. For entering action on all of the dockets used by the clerk, 10 cents each, not Including bar dockets. For administering an oath, 5 cents. For making complete record alter judgment, per 100 wordB, four figures counting as' one word, 10 cents. For certificate and seal, 40 cents. For making out advertisement for non resident defendant, including certificate and seal, 50 cents. . For every 100 words, four figures counting as one word, contained in any writing required by law to be done by him, and for which there is no specific allowance, 10 cents. For indorsing on supersedeas direction to clerk of inferior court, 2o cents. For docketing judgment, 10 cents. For issuing fee bills for fees, not his own, for -every 50 words, four figures counting as ooe word, 10 cents, and for mandate and stal thereto, 40 cents. Sec. lti. The clerks of the circuit, superior and criminal courts of this State shall tax and charge upon the proper books, to be provided and kept in their offices, for tae services by them performed, the fees and amounts following, to wit: For sach writ, summons, or other process nnder seal, except fee bills, executions, decrees and subrxenas, 40 cents. For each subpoena, to include all witnesses in one county called for at one time, except lor the grand jury, 25 cents. For issuing ana filing each snbpcena for the grand jury, including all witnesses called for at one time, 10 cenu, to be paid out of the county treasury, upon the order of the judge of the circuit, superior or criminal court. When by law the clerk is required to do any copying or writing in relation to any matter where no fee or allowance is made relating to such matter, he shall charge and collect tberelor, lor each too words, lour figures countingas one word, 10 cents. And If less than 400 words, 30 cents. For entering on the order book each order and minute of the proceedings of the court during term, and reading the same, including the title of toe cause, 25 cents; and when the number of words in such entry is less than 300 words, for each entry, 25 cents; when the entry exceeds 300 words, 10 cents per 103 words. . . - For each affidavit prepared by the clerk, Including certificate and seal, 50 cents. For each jurat, where affidavit is not prepared by clerk, 15 cents. For making a complete record in all cases required by law, or when ordered by the court, -or a party, for each 100 words, four figures counting as one word, 8 cents. For filing each paper, except vouchers and ballots. 5 cents. For filing vouchers, other than in estates and guardianships, 2 cents. For swearing each jury, 10 cents. For entering each satisfaction of record, 5 -cents. . .... For administering the oath to witnesses in court, to include all persons sworn at one time, 5 cents. For entering satisfaction of record in the recorder's office, 10 cents. For issuing notices of publication to nonresident defendants, for each notice, 35 cents. For administering the oath to the grind jury, 10 cents, to be paid out of the county treasury, upon ine oraeroi tne juageoi tne circuit, superior or criminal court. For administering all other oaths, where Jurat is not required, 5 cents. For issuing marriage license, including all affidavits, certificates and seal, filing all papers, registering and Indexing, and all other - acts connected therewith, 12, and no more. For recording certificates of estray, 2i cents. For taking, approving and attesting stay of execution. Including all affidavits, certificates and seals, and other acta done In relation thereto, 25 cents. For entering each default, 5 cents. For Issuing fee bills for fees not his own, 50 -cents. - "'. And for mandate and seal thereto, 25 cents. For issuing execution, including certificate and seal, filing and docketing, and recording the sheriffs re lorn thereto, SI. For issuing order of sale, for each 100 words, four figures counting as one word, 10 cents. For filing, certifying and preserving statement of insurance, 20 cents. For recording a transcript of a judgment to become a lien on real estate, 10 cents for each 10' words, four figures counting as one word; for filing said transcript, 10 cents; for docketing tue same, 10 cents, and lor entering satisfaction thereof, 10 cents. For taking, approvina and recording official bonds, including all affidavits, statements, " certificates, seals, and other services required , in relation thereto, $1. For attending as clerk to the board of canvassers, per day, $1.60, to be paid out of the county treasury upon the order of the board of county commissioners. For issuing and recording declaration of naturalization of any person desiring naturalization, including all certificates, seals, affidavits and statements!, $1. . .- - For Issuing certificates of naturalization and affidavits ot abjuration of alleiciance, including all certificates, seals, statements and other acts relating thereto, SI. For docketing each cause on Issue, court,

judgment, and fee docket, or any other docket

required Dy law in wnicn sucn case is , to oe docketed, lor each docket, 10 cents. Clerks shall tax in each civil cause to the losing party as a part of the costs of the cause, to be collected as the other costs are, and paid into the county treasury, a docket fee of 82; provided, that in all cases where suits are dismissed no docket fee shall be taxed. And such clerks shall pay for all stationery and blanks used in their repective offices, except books required to be kept by law, and such blanks as are used is the proper transaction of the business of their offices In matters for which they receive no specific fee. IX CRIMINAL PBOCEEDLNG8. For taking a recognizance, including all token at one time, 25 cents. For issuing each writ or other process, 40 cents. For making record, including all entries In the record books or dockets, for each 100 words, four Azores counting as one word, 10 cents. For each 10J words of exemplified copy or certified tn nscript of any record or paper, when requested to be furnished by any person, four figures counting as one word, 10 cents. ror swearing each jury, 20 cents. ' For swearing all the witnesses called for at one time, or the bailiff, 5 cents. For receiving, filing and entering verdict, 10 cents. For entering defendant's plea, 10 cents. AU allowances made by tbe court at each term shall be certified to the auditor In one certificate, and for said certificate and the seal thereto the clerk shall receive SI, to be paid out of the county treasury upon the order of the j udge of tbe proper court. For discharging recognizance, 10 cents. For recording indictments and making any other record not herein provided for, per 109 words, four figures counting as one word, 10 cents. For issuing copy of recognizance at the request of the surety and attestation with seal, 75 cents. For each certificate and seal, 50 cents. Sec. 17. I u estates of feOO and undertaken by the widow, no costs or fees shall be taxed or collected. Sec. 18. The clerk shall keep a cash book in which he shall enter consecutively, and as received, each sum of money by him received, with the date of such re sept, with a brief mention of the cause or matter In which it was received, which shall be kept open for inspection during his continuance in office, and shall be delivered to his successor in office. Sec. 19. Such clerk shall also keep a register of witness and other fees not his own, in which be shall enter as soon as received the names of all persons (alphabetically) for whom money bas been paid into his hands, stating plainly the name, in what cause and in which fee book and page taxed, the amount so paid, when paid into his hands and when paid out; which book or register shall be at all times open for inspection in some conspicuous piace In his office, and he shall turn the same over to bis successor in office, and for attending the criminal andsnperlor cou-ts per day, and entering the record of the court, either in person or by deputy, the clerk shall receive ti to be allowed by the j udge of said court, and paid out of the county treasury. Sec. 20. No fees or charges shall be made by clerks against any estate, or the executor or administrator thereof, except as the same is in this section provided. For letters of administration, or executorship, and recording the same, including ail the statements, affidavits, certificates seals and filial. aDDrovlneand recording the bond, SI.tO. For filing and entering of record report of executor or administrator, lor eacn loo words, four figures counting ssjoue word, 8 cents. Clerks shall index, in proper indexes, to be provided for and kept tor that purpose, all lecords and dockets pertaining to estates; and for which service be shall receive a fee for each entry on such index of 5 cents. For recording all Inventories, sale bills, and other DroceedioKS required by law to be re corded, for each loO words, four figures count ing as one word, cants. For all certified copias or exemplified tran scrints of the above records. Including certifi cate and seal, for each 100 words, four figures counting as one wora, 8 cents. - ror taking, attesting and filing each affidavit required by law, including seal, and all other acls connected therewith. 15 cent". For administering each oath. Including all persons sworn at one time, 3 cents. For each writ, citation, or other process re quired by law or oruer ot court, w cents. For proving a will and indorsing the certificate thereon, including all affidavits, certifi cates, seais, statements, aud other acts con nected therewith. SI. For proving a codicil and indorsing the certificate thereon. Including all affidavits, cer tificates, seals, statements, and ail other acts connected therewith. 50 cents. Kor recording a will, per 103 words, four figures counting as one word. 8 cents. For giving each notice required by law, 25 cents. For entering each estate on the appearance d -cket. 20 cents. Kor hllng and entering each claim on the aroearanci docket. cents. For transferring the entry of an estate on tbe appearance docket, 8 cents. For fl ing each paer not herein provided for. exeunt vi nchers. 5 cents. For every trial in relation to estates, 20 cents. No fee-or charges shall be made by clerks against the estates of miners except as below vrovided. For application for letters and statement, including ad the affidavits, certificates, seals, statements and recording the same, and the taking, approving, acsnowledglng, filing and recording bond, ana issuing, riling ana recora ing letters, to Include all the services con nei:ted therewith, il. For each two years such guardianship is pending in the court tbe clerk shall receive $1 when the assets in the hands of the guardian do not exceed $1,000, and 12 when such assets exceed tuat sum, provided that this fee shall not include sales of real estate and partition suits. And the clerk shall not take, ree'eve or charge, to be taken by themselves, any other fees, costs, charge or amounts for any or all otlic:al services or acts to be by them done or performed than as in this act specially set forth and stated. Sec. 21. No execution shall in any case be is sned in anv cause except in the written preclne of a Dartv to such suit, his representatives or assigns, or of his attorney of record; and no lee bill shall oe issuea except tne same snau oe ordered bv the person to whom such fees or a Dart thereof are due: but tne cierk snait re ceive nothing for any lee bill issued for his own tees. Sso. 22 The auditor of each couutv shall be allowed the sum of 81.200 per year for his serv ices, anu no more except as proyiaea ior in this act. - i When the popuUtion of his county exceeds fifteen thousand and does not exceed twenty thousand, as shown by the last preceding census taken by the United States, tlieuiduioual sum of 125 for each one thousand inhabitants in excess of fif een thousand shall be allowed said auditor in addition to his salary of $1,200 and if the ixmulaiion of said county shall be more than twenty t housand, said auditor shall be allowed tbe additional sum or sioo ror eacn one thousand inhabitants in excess of twenty thousand in said county. Each auditor shall be allowed $100 per year lor making ail reports required by law to tne auditor of state. Such allowances shall be made in Quarterly installments by the board of county commissioners during their regular sessions in March.- June. September and De cember, and paid out of any county revenue of such county not otherwise appropriated; oat payment snail not oemaae in aavanceoi services rendered. Sec. 2:1. In addition to the compensation pro vldedforin the preceding section, auditors may charge to the persons for- whom such services are rendered the following fees, town: For copies of all records, deeds, and other writings not herein provided for, for each one hundred words, four figures counting as one word, to be paid lor by the person requiring tne service, iu cents. But in no case to be paid by the county. For writing affidavit and swearing affiant thereto, on business not connected with office so cents For each license, to be paid by licensee, SI. For each subptvaa, Including all witnesses of a county, to oe paid oy tne person ordering tne same, z-) ceDH. For every entry and transfer of land for tax ation, to be paid by tbe person requesting sucu transier, eacn tract or town lot, iu cents. For each tax deed, to be paid by the person receiving the deed, including acknowledgment and registry ; such deed to include all lands for which such Dei son has sertiticates.!. For taking and approving bend, and recording tbe same, $1. For making certificate of tax sale, Including registering and recording the same, to be paid Dy we person receiving tne same, au cents. For acknowledging and recording an assign ment of certificate ot tax sale, to be paid by the person desiring the same, 50 cents. The auditor shall file and preserve all papers and vouchers coming into bis hands as such auditor, necessary to be filed, and for filing each paper required by law to be hied he shall receive i cent. - - Provided. That he shall not receive any pay for filing assessment lists, appraisers' returns, connty orjers reueemea, roaa receipts, or re ceipts ior any otner voucners. Sec. 24. For services rendered by the auditor in any matter litigated before the board of county commissioners, the same fees shall be taxed and collected by him as are allowed clerks for similar services, including proceedings in highways, turnpikes and ditches; but the auditor shall not be paid any fees for services in such cases where the connty is the losing party and the costs are taxed against the county in favor of the successful party. Auditors shall receive 1 per cent, for the

management of the permanent school f and of the county held in trust and loaned, and no

other fee or compensation therefor. gee. Z3. Auditors snau iurnisn an Dianas and stationery for affidavits or other documents for Dartles In which he receives a spe cific fee for the service rendered in using such blank or stationery. Provided, That the county shall furnish all books, stationery and blanks required in doing the public business pertaining to the auuitor's office. Sec 20. The sheriffs or the several counties of this State shall tax and charge the following fees and none other, to-wit: For serving writ In criminal cause, and taking into custody, 25 cents. For each mile necessarily traveled la going and returning to serve process, 10 cents. For taking Dau on execution, au cents. For taking recognizance, 20 cents. For returning writ, 10 cents. For summoning a jury of 12 men, with mile age as above, 75 cent. r or summoning oi less tnan u men, iu cents for each juror served, with mileage as above. ror executing writei possession, ana mile age as above, do cents. for every person committed lo iu, aj cents. For discharging each person from jail, 20 cents. For holding an inquisition and drawing it np in form, and returning the same, 5 cents. For removing persons to Insane Asylum, House of Refuge or Reformatory for Women and Ulrls, the same compensation as allowed for taking convicts to State prison, to be paid out af county treasury. For serving each person named on a subprena or a summons, with mileage as above: ail such service must be made by the sheriff or deputy, and his return indorsed thereon, 85 cents. For each copy required, 2o cents. a commission on first three hundred dollars oi per cent., and one and one-half percent. on any excess above that amount; but when the money is paid to mm, without sate, onehalf of the above commission only shall be allowed, and mileage as above. ror taking valuation or lands, 2a cents. For taking a replevin bond, 25 cents. For serving a capias ad satisfaciendum, 25 cents. lvvins on property and advertising tbe same, with mileage, as above, $1. When no money is made, no otner iee or reward shall be allowed on execution except for expenses of removing, stowing or keeping property. For making a certificate of sale on execution or decree, $1. f or making a aeeo, si. Calling or impaneling a jury, 5 cents. For serving a writ of attachment when property la taken, with mileage as above, 20 cents. for each day employed in macingan lnvenory aud appraisement of property when taken nnder a writ of attachment, $2. t or docketing each cause on sheriffs docket. 10 cents. For returning the same, 20 cents. For the actual number of miles necessarily traveled In going and returning to post up notices for the sale of any real or personal property, to be taxed and collected as the other costs in the cause are taxed ; for each mile so traveled, iu cents. For taking each convict to State prison, per mile, going and returning by the nearest route raveled, lo cents. For each additional convict taken at the same time, the actual expenses of the additional convict shall be paid out of the State treasury on certificate of the warden of the prison, onenns snan not ue ennueu to any lees for services performed by their bailiffs when such bailiffs are receiving pay by the day from the county at the time such services are rendered. The sheriff shall appoint as many bailiff at each term ot the court as the business of the court aud grand Jury shall require, under the advice and consent of the Judge of the court as to number required. In counties where mere are criminal ana superior courts, the judges of said courts may appoint a bailiff, such baillirs per diem not to exceed 52 50. For paying court bailiffs, ll.su per day. For Davlog riding bailiffs. 52.50. The lees taxed on an v process served bv bail iff, being paid by the county, shall be collected and paid Into the county treasury, and shall Deioui? to tne countv. For boarding each prisoner, lawfully in bis charge, per day, 40 cents. To. be paid out ol tne countv treasury. In criminal cases not provided for, the like fees as for services In civil cases shall be allowed. For collecting fee bills, except for his own fees, on amouut collected. 6 percent. All costs shall be collected without any relief from val uation or appraisement laws of tbe state ot Indiana. For taking a prisoner to another county, on any warrant issued by tue clerk, the same compensation as auowea ior taxing a prisoner to tne State's prison, to be paid by the county requiring tne service, to oa auowea Dy we nonrt. For each commitment or discharge or a pris oner nuder the authority of anv city or incorporated town, to be paid by such city or town, 20 cents. Sec. 27, In all cases where tne snentiRnnii perform any service for the county required oy law to be performed by him, and there -is no provision for its payment, the board of county commissioners shali allow and pay such sherifl the same compensation as is allowed bv law lor similar services; but the sheriff shall make out an itemized statement of all such services performed ror such county. before Mich allowance is maae: out sucn al lowance shall not be made unless such statement shall be filed with tbe auditor 10 days before the commissioners' court meets, ana any citizen may resist the allowance of said account. For attending court, in person or by deputy. Ior eacn actual aay s atteuuncs, t. Advertising growing out or any duty of any city, county or township officer, executors, ad ministrators, guaruiuus, trustees huu assignees (except the printing of tiie delinquent tax list), shall be by such officer charged up, collected, and paid over to the printer. And when such printing is done for the county the board of county comini.-sloners shall allow the fame, and pay it out of the county treasury according to the rate herein fixed. And the compensation for such printer for such adver tising snan oe as Herein set lorm to-wit: For each advertisement, per square of 250 ems, first insertion,!. For each additional insertion, oo cents. Provided that said advertisement shall be Bet in solid reading type, of the same size as that In which the body or the ordinary business advertising in said paper is set, without any leads or other devices lor increasing the space, except as hereinafter specified, and said advertisement shall be set up with not more than two display lines to each advertise, ment, neither of which display lines shall occupy space greater than four solid lines ot the ordinary reading type in which the body of said advertisement is set. And in case such officers shall be unable to procure such advertisement for the price fixed herein, it shall be sufficient for him to post up written or printed notices, as the law requires, and such advertisement in a newspaper shall be disDensed with. Sec. 28. For publishing the delinquent list, 35 cents for each description. Sec 29. The treasurer of each connty shall be allowed the sum or Ssoo per annum as sucn officer and no more, and the same shall be al lowed by tbe board of connty commissioners in nnn.rr.erlv InHtAllmanta at the remlr ses sions in March, June, September and Decem ber, paid outot any moneys in tne treasury belonging to the county not otherwise appro priated. See. 39. County treasurers shall also charge and receive as a further compensation, at the rate of 1 per cent, on the first $100,000 of taxes by them collected; and on all sums collected In excess thereof, one-half of 1 per cent. They shall also receive and retain out ot all dellnouent taxes collected 0 per cent, when paid voluntarily and without levy, and 6 per cent. If paid after levy, and the treasurer shall be allowed the same fees and charges for making distress and sale of goods and chattels for the payment or taxes as may oe auowea Dy law to conv tables for making levy and sale of pro perty on execution. Treasurers shall tor their services in going to IndlanaDolls and returning by the nearest route by railroad to make their- semi-annual settlements with the state treasurer receive from the State treasury at the rate of 10 cents per mite. Sec. 81. The county commissioners' fees shall be as follows, to-wit: For each day's attendance as member of the county board or board of equalization each commissioner shall re ceive f8.50. Sec. S2. The per diem of township trustees shall be as follows, to-wlt: For ea:h day's actual service they shall be allowed to be paid out of tha township fund $2. Provided, that for all services as overseers of tbe poor said township trustees shall be paid out of any foods In the connty treasury not otherwise appropriated, on the order of the board ol county commissioners. TOWNSHIP ASSESSORS. Bee. S3. Township assessors shall receive for each day s actual service tne sum oi tz. jurors' fees. Sec. 34. Fees of Jurors iu the circuit, superior and criminal courts of this State shall be, per day, while In actual attendance, $1.00. And for each ini.e necessarily traveled in going and returning, five cents. For each day's attendance before a Justice of the peace, vd cents. And for each mile necessarily traveled, five cents. - . . constables' hileagk. Sec. 35, For each mile necessarily traveled

In going and returning to serve process and subpoena, 10 cents. Sec. 86. Any officer being In doubt of the

proper charge to be made for any service rendered, shall in no case charge any constructive iee; but he shall bring the question before the circuit judge of his county, in writing, and said judge shall decide the same, which decision shall be entered of record, as other orders of court are entered. A note thereof, showing the page of tbe order book, shall be entered in the list of fees kept in the office of such officer, which order shall authorize snch charge to be made as found by tbe court. For such submission, proceedings and orders, the officer shall make no charge, and shall have no fees therefor. See. 37. Any officer who shall charge, demand or take any fee for any official act aone or performed nnder the nrovisions of this act other than is herein allowed and provided for, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof shall be fined in any sum not exceeding $100, and shall be liable on ins omcuu ooaa to tne party injured ior nve times the Illegal fees charged, demanded or taken, and the same mav be recovered, with costs. In the circuit court; provided, no officer buui oe iiaoio ior any uniawiui sum cnargea or taken oy his deputy, unless he knows of and falls to correct the same; and snch deputy shall be liable, as an officer, to prosecution fjr such unlawful charge or taking. See. 38. For recording instruments authorized by law to be recorded, when no specifie fee Is fixed, the recorder may charge and collect for each 100 words, four figures counting as one word, the sum of 10 cents. Sec. 39. Tne board of county commissioners shall, unless In cases of indispensable public necessity to oe iouna ana entered ci recoru as part of their orders, make no allowance not specifically required by law to any county auditor, ciera, sneriti, assessor or ireasurei, either directly or indirectly, nor to any clerk, deputy, bailiff, or any employe of such officer, nor shall they, except in cases above provided, employ any person to perform any duty required by law of any officer, or for any duty to be paid by commission or per centage: and for a violation of the provisions of this act, each member of such board favoring the same shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction shall be fined in any sum not less than double nor more than five times the amount of such allowance, to which snay be added Imprisonment in the county Jail for any period not mora than 00 days, and the office of such commissioner shall be declared forfeited. If it be found necessary, and so entered of record, to employ any person to ren der any service, as contemplated in this act. as a puDiic necessity, tne contract ior sucn employmentsball be spread of record in said court, and for such services rendered, the claimant shall file his account in said court 10 days before the beginning of the term, and any tax-payer shall have the right to contrast the claim. Sec. 40. All laws and parts of laws in con flict with the provisions of this act. are hereby repealed. Sec. 41. That no judge of any court in this State shall make any allowance to any officer or person named in this act. except as in this act provided. A SYSTEMATIC SWINDLE. How a Bogus Medicine Man Feathered His Nest in the Western Part of the State. Springfield (Mass.) Dispatch to the Boston n.eraiu.1 A systematic swindle, which has been kept very quiet by the chagrined victims thereof, was perpetrated a month ago in this and several Is ew England cities. It was played here in this very plausible manner: An advertisement was inserted in tne papers for a partner in an established and lucrative business, the partner to furnish only a few hundred dollars. The applicant for a for tune found the advertiser to be a man calling himself Dr. Largely, of Rochester. N. Y., "proprietor oi the celebrated kockv mount ain bitters." Dr. Langely wished to estab lish an agency for bis truly valuable medicines in Springfield, and for that purpose had leased a store nnder Music Hall. What he wanted was a partner to carry on the business, as he did not wish to place tbe store in the hands of an irresponsible clerk. As to his own responsibility, inquire of So-and-so, of Rochester, N. Y. The man selected as tbe victim made by letter the desired inquiries, and received in reply a letter ( undoubtedly irom ianztey s col league in tbe swindle) indorsing Laogley in the highest terms. This, and the lact that he bad actually leased tbe store, and was then painting and otherwise fitting np, dis armed suspicion. AU that was required of the partner was an advanee ol 51K), which was a guaranty of his financial responsibility and entitled him to a liberal slice of tbe profits. A man on the Hill swallowed the brit and advanced the money, and Dr. Langley proceeded to establish like agencies elsewhere. A Ludlow man, whom be picked up here, was given the Worcester agency; somebody else was placed on the road to wealth in a similar manner; and ut. t,sngley also proceeded to Boston, in each place leasing a store, setting painters at work, and making a great bnatle oi Dusiness, wnicn appears to have fooled everybody whom he met. My informant estimates Dr. Langley's total receipts in New England from this very simple little game at $8,000. The Springfield partner" received xroni J&ocfiester one little box ot bitters, alter which there was no re ply to bis letters. The Ludlow man, who was going to make his fortune in Worcester, visited Rochester and found the place of business. Dr. Langley was out, a boy said: he would be in soon. Meanwhile Lr. Langley, wbo was in the back part of the store. went down cellar and probably out ot a bulkhead; at least the Ludlow man never saw him more. lie has been heard irom since at New York, but his "partners" have given up all hopes of eyer seeing again the color of their money. A WARM REMEDY. A Cure Which is Worth a Trial Instances of its Efficacy. The Paris correspondent of the Boston Courier. 'referring to bis recovery Irom a dan gerous illness, says: 1 mention this illness that 1 may tell you how easily I was cured. 1 was bent double. 1 could not breathe. My physician ordered me to take a flat iron and heat it as hot as I could near; put double fold of flannel oo the painful part aud move the iron to and fro on tbe flannel. I was cured by enchantment. &iy doctor told ma that some time since a professor in one of our colleges, after suffering some days with neuralgia in the head which he himself bad tried to cure, sent for the former, wbo prescribed a hot flat Iron. The next time tbe doctor saw the professor the latter ex claimed with mock anger: "1 really shall not pay you any fee ! What ! I bad no sooner applied the heated iron to my head than instantly an pain vanished! mat is as simple as good day; surely you can not expect a lee for it!" My physician was sum monea recently to tne oeu sine oi a woman wbo bad neuralgia In both sides and so violently she alarmed the whole neighborhood by the screams which her in tolerable anguish wrung from her. Sae was taken Irom her bed ana borne near the hre. in such severe cases heated iron is not energetic enough. He baa an iron rod fastened in an ivory handle. He heats this rod to white beat (which causes less pain than red heat) and applies it very slightly to the seat of pain, first in longitudinal, their in latitudinal lines. The application is so light that' no trace is left but red lines on the epidermis, wnicn are soon e a aced. In 20 minutes the woman walked back to bed, and the tbird day Quitted it entirely, freed from nou This instrument is not to be trusted with awkward bands. Three weeks ago one of our brilliant artists was invited to shoot by the owner of a chateau in whose grounds there are wild fowl in abundance. He awoke, tbe morning after arrival at this gen tleman's bouse, with sciatica in his right thigh. He could not leave bis bed. The nearest doctor was sent for. "I can do nothing which will give yon immediate relief." The artist is a patient of my phys ician. He told the doctor what to do. The latter declined taking the responsibility of any such violent treatment. "Uat I assume all responsibility." The doctor applied an iron rod heated to a white heat, but so awkwardly that tbe artist has scan tbe size oi a nve franc piece on his thigh. Me was nevertheless cured, and enjoyed a week sport without one other twitch of pain.

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Palatable and Xourishable Diane for Inva lids. WHITE WUfK WH1Y. For this nutritions article for diet use nan pine of milk, one winec aasfnl ot sher. ry wine, and one tablespoonful of sugar. As owu as it ooiisaaa tne sherry wine. This will curdle the milk, which should be strained at once. They ahoald.be given to tne patient nor. CH0P8 AUD STEAKS FOR THE BK K. In cooking steaks for the sick they should aiways oe cut aoout one inch in thickness. IJeat it well with a roiling pin. Tbis renders is tender, and preserves tbe juice. Place npon a broiler, and cook for seven to 10 minutes, turning frequently. When done lay it upon a hot plate, and season with a little salt and pepper and a little butter. Never cbop meat with m sharp instrument. It severs tbe fibers, thus allowing tbe juice to escape while cooking. GRUEL AUD FOBBIDGE. In preparing gruel, to a pint of milk use a small tablespoonful of oatmeal, a small pinch of salt, a half teaspoonful of sugar and a piece of butter the size of a nutmeg; place tbe milk in the hre. and. haviner softensH the meal with a little milk or water, mix it wen wita tne rmeai on me stove. After it has boiled five minutes add the butter and sugar, and strain. In making gruel with water, it is well to add a little port wine just oeiore lacing from the stove, in preparing porridge the oatmeal should be placed on tbe stove in cold water. Tbe pro portion is about three tablespoonfuls of meal to a pint of water. It should be stirred well and boiled for half an hour. While it is boiling add a little salt. RESTORATIVE JELLY. This requires in Its preparation one ounce of pure isinglass, ode fourth of gum arable powdered, two ounces of sugar, one-half pint of the best port wine, one-half dozen cloves, one - half teaspoonful extract of lemon. First put in a small pitcher the isinglass, add the earn arable, sugar end lemon and cloves; then pour over tbis mixture the wine. Cover tbe pitcher with a piece of paper, and allow the ingredients to stand one hour. Put the pitcher into a large saucepan of boiling water, stir the contents until the isingUss dissolves; allow the water to boll violently fora few minutes, and then strain. When cold this jelly should be cut into dice, so that it can be served to a patient without requiring any exertion. Miss Dels uses the Russian isinglass, which is much better than the sheet. ARROWROOT Pl DDIKG. To a dessert spoonful of dry arrowroot, nsa a halp pint of milk or water and a teaspooniui ot sugar, mix tne arrowroot and smooth with a little milk or water. Wben tbe half pint of milk bas just come to a boil, pour it over the sugar and root, and stir itwelL To thicken nicely the arrowroot must be kept in a dry place. If it does not thicken wben the milk is poured over place thewholeupon the fire and stir until it does. This is very nutritious and strengthening. It Is very pleasant ior children. to make the pudding two eees. one tea spoonful of sugar and a half ounce of butter is required. After the arrowroot is cooled stir in the yolks of the two eggs and the sugar. Heat in tbe whites of the two eggs stniiy and carefully stir tn the mess, urease small dish well with butter, pour in the mixture and bake only five minutes in a quick oven. QUICK BEEF TEA. Beef taken from the round is best tor beef tea, because it is almost free from fat and it contains more juice than anv other part of tbe meat. Alter removing every particle of lat, cut tne steak into small pieces, across tbe grain. This breaks tbe fibre and allows tbe juice to escape. Place the heated meat in s dry, closed saucepan, and sweat for five min utes, sweating is simply beating tbe meat. not too hot, and stirring it occaeionally to prevent its sticking. At the end of five minutes the pan will be found to contain a gravy, or the essence of tbe meat, which, of itself, is good for very feeble patients. At this stage pour over the meat its weight in cold water (tbe gauge bsioe a pint of water to each pound of meat); stir until the water boils, and then simmer for five minutes. Do not add salt, unless the doctor permits it. In many diseases salt can be used without doing much harm. Strain the tea while hot, then skim the fat from the surface, and it is ready for use. BEEF TEA TC KEEP. Remove all the fat and skin from two or three pounds of a shin of beef, remove the marrow, and after cutting tbe meat hnely, place it, with a bone and a knuckle of veal, in a strong brown iar; cover the jar securely. and oyer the lid tie a strong piece of brown paper. Fiace tbe jar in a kettle of boning water, and boil all day. hen taken from the kettle the jar will contain a quantity of gravy; strain tbis at once, as it will form a jelly when cold. The jelly can bs given to the patient in summer, but in winter it is better to dissolve it in hot water and nse. This preparation will keep for two weess in winter, aud hail that time during the warm weather. RAW BEEP TEA. Take about an ounce of steak, and, hold ing it securely to the table with a fork. scrape or shred the flesh from tbe fibres with a sharp knife. Piace tbe sbreded meat in two tablespoon! uls OI cold water and soak for 15 minutes, then strain and use. This is excellent for typhoid fever cases and teeth mg children. ANOTHER BEEF TEA. This tea is particularly racommended where the patient is troubled with mdiges tion. Cut a quarter of a pound of steak into small pieces as in the other preparation, and pour on it a gill ot cold water, and place on a very slow fire. It should be about 20 minutes before it comes to a boiL , As soon as it is boiled strain, and, after it has cooled, skim off the grease with paper. It is then ready for use. Interest on the Four Per Cents. Washington Post. Treasurer Gilfillan is now engaged in pre paring the cbecEs ior the payment of the quarterly interest on tbe 4 per cent, regis tered bonds. The interest on the registered bonds alone amount to $2,496,706, which, of course, is 1 per cent, of the entire amount now outstanding. The debt statement for February gave the amount of the registered fours then outstanding as sM.iliAW. showing an Increase since the beginning of the present month of $13,000,000. The amount of coupon bonds then outstanding was $150,586,600, showing an increase in these bonds of about $9,000,000. The pre cise amount of the interest due on the cou pon bonds could not be given at the treas ury yesterday, but it was thought to be about $1,750,000, making the entire quarterlylinterest due on the 4 per cents, on the 1st Ol April, 54.4i6.70o. When to Peel. Philadelphia fresa. As many of the most severe colds are the result of imprudence in the spring of the year. Franklin's attvice "Take care of your shoo and your shop will take care of yon" has been given the following hygienic twist: "Stick to your flannels until they stick to you." - A Maligned State. Atlanta Constitution. Texas is not as bad as rumor would have us believe. Eli Perkins visited that State and came out alive a fact that gives him a great advantage over many people, includ ing several ueorgians. It is one of those rare, good remedies which used once will be always Kept in the house. Dr. Bull's Baltimore Fills we refer to. Price 25 cents.

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BLOtfD & NERVE FOOD la m Par Lionn wm - prepurea directly tre-n Um "WHBAT KERNED. u rite BLOOD. HXBTI AID tatnmai damme ta 1 Tltallaatteeu NERVOUS DEBIXITY Welch underlies an forms of Cstronie Disease) Is speedily overcome by the nse of this Food. o For the year Mat I have rnmniiiii scribed Tne Blaaeaard BM atatf ilerw 'ol to my patients of all ages, from eighteen months to eighty-three years. In every case ue result nas oeea exactly that calmed by yon. It is bv far tbe most ninM uni reli able Dome I have ever met wlih.JtDWASIl HTn-TOM BXITB, M. D., 10 Inrina; Place, Kw York. FOOD AI T ThUTTQQ A 8UB8TITTJTB brlXU U M Id FOOD is made a enratim tnt tvr nnMtration and artlnolal digestion, and it Is so simple in Its application that Tbe SMiTlee pujMvuuBv mm boi nqnirM, Thousands of recoveries from chronic dla. e2??"i.art "ported, where the best medical skill has failed. Many of tbe best physicians throngheat the) country re Discarding; llran and nalns the Blowelutm Blod and Hem Vmrn with the most gratifying results, permanently relieving all forms of Physical and Mental Debility. The Dyspeptic ul GoaumB. tive PaUeat, sufferers from Malarial as Blood IalonlBa;, together with tne entire list of complaints peculiar to the female sei find In the ose of this Food sore and speeds relief. N mar Ynu. Nnmmhur 9R. 1RTT. DR. V.W. BUHCHIRD! Dnrlnir thatnaut tnu I have Prescribed von r VRrioiia nwmnitlnnt of Food Cure, and feel happy to say they hay uiov ujy mm sanguine expectations, giving to patients long enfeebled bv blood niiinn. chronic disease, sr over drug dosing the need ed nutrition and nerve force. fBOF.t;i,iiMEHCE 8. LOZIEK, M. D' itean of Horn. Med. College and Hospital for Women, New York City o IIHnndreds of eases of Brig-bra Disease: oi tne moneys nave been reported cured. For jininu(i asm aneamane Diseases u Is almost a i pecific. Physical and Mental Dsbillty from the nse of Alcohol, Opium sis Tebace or from any nnnamable cause, find in una r oou a natural ana .potent remedy. FOB THE IHTKLXXCTUAX. .WOKKXsl THE BLuUYCHAKD BLOOD & NERVE FOOD Affords a certain ana natural means or irnpPlylng tbe waste of the brain resulting trooa labor tbat will enable him to do better and more work than ever before, without danger of mental strain. As a remedy for tbe Loss af appetite nasi WmI af VlR-or, physical and mental, is children this Food has no rivaL :$1.00 per Bottle, or 6 for $5.00. SOLD BY ALL DRUGGISTS. Or Sent by Express on receipt of Price. AJTDOVXR THsnixjoiCAL SmmrART. Axdovek, Mass March 2k, 1878. UYonr Life Food Is an excellent thing. I have no hesitation, after a thorough trial of It, la recommending it in eases of chronic dyspepsl and nervous prostration. THE B LA If CHARD FOOD CUB 8TNTEX now receiving such popular app elation Is clearly set forth in a 64 page pa - phlet whien will be sent to any address on celpt of 2a cents. Address filanchard Food Cure Co. 27 CSIOH 8cV ABE, SEW TOKK. AND- ' CHEAPEST L' HAIR HH IN THE FOR THE HAIR It boftexs thb bash when babsh avo my. It SOOTHES THE rXSTTATEn scixr. Ir AFFORDS THE KICHEST LUBTBE. IT PEBTESTS THB HAIB. FBOX FALLISQ OFF. IS FBOMOTES ITS HXAT.THT, VieOROOS GROWTH. It is xot ckeast xox sticky. It leaves SO SiaaOKXEABLB ODOB. IZ KIIXS AS baorr. CLIFFORD'S FEBRIFUGE . OH - HTTDT7! ERADICATES ALL MALARIAL DISEASES from the SYSTEM. J.C. RICHARDSON, Prop., ror Sale bv All Drucirist. ST. LOUIS. roiLDPTTlLDElE Cared WUhlai a Stipulated Tlese. Tie TriMEuTmss CompKsKo. ery,N.Yofrerl)00fora rupture they cannot cure. The Triumph Trusses have received tbe highest honors at all fairs where they have been exhibited. Bend 10 cents for book; on the Cure of Buptoxe toeither offloe. Examinations free. - Et ECTR I C BELTS. A sare core for Nervous Debility, Premature Decay, Weakness, Consumption, Liver and Kidney diseases. General Debility, etc. Tbe Omly Reliable Cure. Ciren Ihrx mailed free. Address J. H. REEVES. 43 Castluua Street, New York.

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