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Cut Down The Bills

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Day
1
Month
November
Year
1895
Copyright
Public Domain
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The supervisors have had their knives open this week and have been ctitting the sheriff aud depnty sbr n.fs bilis right merrily. The resnlt has been, of cotirse. tbat Washtenaw has a number of slenths who feel that they have been sorely dealt with and the county of Washtenaw hs been saved a neat snni. The sessions ihis week have been takten np principally with discnssions upon these and other bilis. To make a long story short here are the bilis presenten by Sheritl Jurtson aua ftve of bis depnties for uine inonths and the aruounts they wore allowed at: Sheriff I755.43, allowed at 700.96; Deputy Sheriff Canfleld, $532.95, al lowed at $457Í35; Deputy Zenas Sweet, $G9 53, reduced to $54. 28 ; Depnty Jacob Staffan, from $110.22 to $82.46; Deputy Jay Woodfrom $226.34 to $187.04; Deputy Arobie Gauntlett, from $95.71 to $69. 54. There are othcrs in the list, one other deputy's account being reduced from $188.25 to $15). 70, but the rest, for the most part, are for smaller amounts. There was a general reduction in the sheriff' s bill from $5 per day for self and rig" to $4. This accouufed for the reduction in his bill. Sheriff Judson's bill was peculiar in the fact that his inmiediate predecessors at, least put ■ in their bilis for their work and actual expenses, while he made his charge fot himsolf and rig at the snrn of $5 per day. This was a new system of presenting the sheriff 's bill and the rednetion was made (o $3 in eaoh one of these charges. The deputy sheriffs' bilis were made out at f3 per day for services and these were all reducerl to $2. Whore a prisoner was brought into courfc and pleaded guilty the supervisors struck out the 50 cent charges made by the deputies, claiming that there was no actual service performed by them.

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Ann Arbor Argus
Old News