Civil Government for Common Schools eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 59 pages of information about Civil Government for Common Schools.

Civil Government for Common Schools eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 59 pages of information about Civil Government for Common Schools.

Three dollars a day.

X. School commissioners.

I. A salary of eight hundred dollars a year, established by law.

II.  Supervisors are required to audit and allow two hundred dollars extra for expenses.

III.  A majority of the supervisors of any school commissioner district may increase the salary of said school commissioner; the increased salary must be levied upon the towns composing such commissioner district.

Q What must county officers do, before entering upon the duties of their office?

A. Take the oath prescribed by State Constitution in Art.  XII, Sec.  I.

Q. What county officers are required in addition to the oath prescribed to execute a bond for the faithful performance of their duties?

A. Sheriff, county treasurer, surrogate and county superintendents of the poor.

Q. Who administers the “oath of office” to the county officers?

A. The county clerk.

Q. In case of the re-election of the county clerk, before whom can he qualify?

A. The county judge.

Q. Where are these oaths of office and bonds recorded?

A. In the county clerk’s office.

Q. Who is the sheriff of this county?

Q. Who is the present judge and what is his salary?

Q. Is there a separate officer as surrogate, and why?

Q. Who is the county clerk?

Q. Who is the county treasurer?

Q. Who is the district attorney?

Q. Who are the coroners?

Q. Who are the superintendents of the poor?

Q:  Who are the justices of sessions?

Q. Who are the school commissioners?

Town auditors.

By laws of 1878, 1879 and 1880, the following-named counties are exempt from electing “town auditors,” as prescribed on page 13:  Wayne, Delaware, Allegany, Oneida, Cayuga, Erie, St. Lawrence, Schuyler, Rockland, Orange, Sullivan, Columbia, Broome, Lewis, Madison, Wyoming, Queens, Jefferson, Fulton, Oswego, Suffolk, Onondaga, Saratoga, Ontario, Yates, Rensselaer, Genesee, Schenectady, Monroe, Livingston, Otsego, Schoharie, Niagara and Orleans.

A TABLE

Showing the salaries of the several county judges and surrogates of the State of New York at the present time, as established by the statutes of 1877 and 1880: 

CountiesJudgeSurrogate. 
New York,      -------     $12,000
Kings,         $10,000      10,000
Erie,            5,000       4,000
Albany,          4,500       4,000
Westchester,     4,500       4,000
Onondaga,        4,000       4,000
Oneida,          4,000       4,000
Monroe,          4,000       4,000
Rensselaer,      3,500       3,500
Saratoga,        3,000       2,500
Ulster,          3,000       3,000
Dutchess,        3,000       3,000
Queens,          2,500       3,000

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