Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 2, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 October 1858 — A CORRECTION. [ARTICLE]

A CORRECTION.

[For the Rensselaer Gazette

Mr. Editor: I have claimed and been allowed bv the Board of County Commissions, $2,098.57 only for services as County Auditor within the last three years, making $609.52 per year. This includes orders onSchool Fund,but not the 3 per cent, for disbursing the interest on School Fund, this being fixed by law. In publishing the delinquent list of 185 b, I saved to the delinquent tax-payer one hundred per cent; in 1856 twenty per cent.; in 1857 twenty per cent., on what the last issue of the Expositor calls the ‘‘established price,” fifty cents per description. I am thankful to the people for electing nre to the office, and am not opposed to the Legislature reducing the fees. lam willing to compare fees with any Democratic Auditor in the State, and if it will be found that mine exceed any one of them, I will refund. The Duplicate, “little book, &c. If all the duplicate w;i?]iut into one volume, it wpuld make a book of upward of 900 pages, six inches thick, 12 by'lG, upward of 6,000 names, and nearly 40,000 calculated items, btween 400,000 and 500,000 acres of land described, &c. If there are qny farmers’ boys who could make, money at making such a book for SIOO each, what a foolish Legislature we must have had to allow 10 cents a hundred words for making it. TURNER A. KNOX.