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THE SHERIFF'S GRAB.About thirty Sheriffs and fully ah many county clerks have been haunting the Legislature at Charleston for weeks, seeking to have their compensation increased. Thty have a compact and powerful organization, elected a president, secretary, treasurer, raised a fund and have employed lobbyists to further their schemes. These schemes are to have their realization in various Senate bills designed to repeal the tax laws passed at the extra session of the Legislature last summer and to restore and in some eases actually iucrease, the fees received by Sheriffs previous to this year. The Sheriffs’ bills provides that the Sheriff shall have 5 per cent net for collecting all taxes (including railroad taxes, which he does not collect, all that work being done through the Auditor’s office). There is no other class of officers in the State who are as well paid, or rather as much overpaid. as the Sheriffs and county clerks. The Sheriff gets a commission on all sales, is paid for issuing summonses and is ox-of-ficio jailer of the county and receives in addition io his residence a heat and light allowance. The prolit in running some of the jails in West Virginia is nearly three times the Governor's present salary.
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Sistersville Daily Oil Review
Sistersville, West Virginia, US
Tue, Feb 14, 1905
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