Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 2, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 March 1859 — The Salary Law. [ARTICLE]

The Salary Law.

The new salary act fixes the following compensation or yearly salaries for the officers named, engaged in the public service: Governor,s3,ooo; Treasurer of State ,$3,000 ; Auditor of State, 2,500; Secretary of State, $2,000; President of Board of Sinking Fund Commissioners, $3,000; Governo 's Private Secretary, $500; Superintendent Public Instruction, $1,300; State Librarian, $800; Superintendent Insane Asylum, 1,200; Superintendent Deaf and Dumb Asylum, sl,000; Superintendent Blind Asylum, $800; vV arden Prison, $1,500; Moral Instructor State Prison, $800; Physician State Prison, $800; Adjutant and Quartermaster General,s2s each; Judges ol Supreme Court, $2,000 each; Judges ot Circuit Courts, s],500 each; Prosecuting Attorneys, SSOO each ; the Auditor of State is allowed two clerks at SI,OOO each; and one at $600; the Tre surer ot State one at SBOO, and the Secretary of State one at SBOO. In addition, the law provides that there shall be taxed and collected as other costs for ail civil actions, appeals from Justice’s Courts and confessi ms of Judgmen s in the Circuit and Common Pleas Courts, a docket fee of $1 in each case, and a docket fee ol $4 in the Supreme Court for each .case, which are to be collected and paid into the County and State Treasuries bv the clerks of the several Courts. The object of this provision is to lessen the expenses of the Judiciary system to the State. 4he increase of the salary to the Governor cannot take effect during the term of the present Executive, and only applies to his successor in office.— lndianapolis Sentinel. Boston Female College, at the close of its, annual term on Wednesday, conferred the degree of M. D. upon Almira Fifield, Valparaiso, Ind , Mary Ann Harris. 1 roy, N. H., Mary Ann Brown Homer, Brimfield, Mass., Elizabeth Taylor, Pitcher, N. Y., Sarah Sheldon Wetherbee. Charleston, Mau.