A Treatise on the Powers and Duties of Supervisors in the State of New York; Containing Copious References to the Statutes, and the Leading and Late (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1869 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER III. t FEES OF OFFICERS. Assessors' fees. One dollar and fifty cents for each day actually and necessarily devoted to the service of the town. Laws of 1860, ch. 305. In cities and some of the villages, the compensation varies; in some of them they receive a salary. Clerks of the polls and of the board of registry. One dollar and fifty cents for each day actually and necessarily devoted to the purposes of election. Id. Clerk of the commissioners of excise. Three dollars per day for services actually performed while the board of excise is actually in session. Commissioners of excise. Three dollars per day for services actually performed.' Commissioners of highways. In any town where there is but one such officer, the sum of two dollars per day, and in towns where there are more than one commissioner, one dollar and fifty cents for each day actually and necessarily spent in the discharge of his official duties. Constables. For serving a warrant, seventy-five cents; for every mile traveled going and returning, ten cents; for taking a defendant into custody on a mittimus, twenty-five cents; for every mile traveled in taking the prisoner to jail, going and returning, ten cents; for taking charge of a jury during their deliberations, fifty cents; for attending any court pursuant to a notice from the sheriff for that purpose, two dollars for each day, and five cents a mile for each mile traveled in going to arid returning from such court. Laws of 1869, ch. 820. Serving a subpoena, twelve and a half cents for each witness, and a like mileage as allowed for serving a warrant. For other services, for which no compensation is specially provided by law, such sum as the board of supervisors may allow. 3 R. S. 1046. Coroners. Their compensation...