Rensselaer Union, Volume 3, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 February 1871 — Jottings From the capital.unit Hi*- Cap Kat [ARTICLE]

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Indian Allot. 18, INty., February 4th, 1871. Enffous Union: This is a beautiful nay ami so w arm that vve sit with ; our windows up. We are too lazy ’ to walk out and have no* «.he ener- ' gy necessary to think r>fit a good 1 sentence. So vve will commence , with the Fee and Salary question—i one that Occupies the attention ol’ ' all the counties who believe in constructive fees. The House committee on Fees and Salaries have thrown aside all ! other bills, concentrated its brains : and introduced “No. 203.” Hear j it: The Clerk of each county shall ! receive the sum of $!,00’0 annually for his services and no.more, except for pay of deputies the sum of I 335 for each five hundred inhabitants in excess of the first five thousand. Auditor £I,OOO and | same fur deputies as Clerk. The , Sheriff §1,300 and for deputies the I same. Treasurer same as C’ierk.— I The salaries are to be paid quarterly. The Commissioners in al- ! lowing fees for deputies are to be ! governed by the last United States census. The Treasurer is to have ten per cent, for collecting delinquent taxes, if by sa!e"bf properly, | and live per cent, if without sale, j There is a fee and cost hill in con : ncction with f 1 1 i, all of which arc | to be co-flcclcd and paid into the county treasury. If fees or costs are not collected by the proper oflicei'j by reason of carelessness, Or have not been paid over, they are tu be ded tie ted by tlie~ebhnfn ssioTi~ ers from such officers’ sadary, and if they still refuse, they may be fined in any sum not. exceeding §l,andhcaamuiv ed from oljicc. Wc tlihdc if would be eminently proper for the citizens of Jasper county to write to the Legislature and let it know how many of them would tyke office in Jasper for those fees 1! A Common Pleas district was made this week of Miami, Cass and Pulaski counties. It is understood that 1). IV Baldwin will be appointed judge in the new distriefc. 'i'he House passed the bill repealing the Kankakee Draining law by C 7 to 17. Judge Taylor,-of Fort Yfayne, opposed its repeat upon the presumption that it might work a hardship in his county. Senator Hughes’ whereases and insolations, nullifying-■ the 15th j Amendment, came up hi regular order this .morning and they would have come to grief, ■ had" not Neff, Simpson and San sherry left the hall in order to break a quorum The republicans had a majority in tiie House and would have sent the whole thing to grass, by postponing indefinitely, had the democrats held still. It fe thought the democrats will not re-district the State for eotigr essi 011 a 1 and I& g isb it ive-purposes. McDowell, ol’ Wells, introduced a rosolulhfii looking to that end, but it is resting, on the table imw.

Yours without tears,

WASH.