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Show three states $6,000 or more, in twenty-one states $7,000 or more, in twelve states $8,000 or more, in eight states $9,000 or more, and in six states $10,000 or more per year. While there is some variation among the states in the duties ar-signed ar-signed by law to the Secretary of State some functions are characteristically charac-teristically associated with that office in nearly all of the states. Included in this group are such functions as administering election Laws and publishing election returns, re-turns, registering corporations and trade marks and names, publishing state laws and public documents, caring for state archives, attesting executive documents, and issuing extradition papers. Utah law makes the Secretary of State responsible for the maintenance main-tenance of the State Capitol Building. Build-ing. He also cares for the Capitol grounds which are assigned by law to the Board of Examiners. Capitol Cap-itol building and grounds maintenance! mainten-ance! at the present time requires about 35 to 40 employees at a total payroll of about $8,600 per month. Expenditures by the Secretary of State for Capitol Building- and grounds amounted to $148,592 for fiscal 1951, and have averaged about $74,000 per year since 1916 when the building was new. Funds for the Utah Secretary of State are provided through biennial bien-nial legislative appropriations from the State General Fund. For the present biennium ending June 30, 1953, appropriations to the Secre-taryof Secre-taryof State totaled $375,400. Expenditures of the Secretary of State for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1951, were $148,592 for Capitol Building and grounds, $24,087 for printing and binding, and premiums on official bonds, and $20,045 for office administration. adminis-tration. Phone your news to 57. Secretary of State Duties Outlined By Tax Research Group Utah is one of four states in which the Secretary of State is designated as the immediate successor suc-cessor to. the governorship if the post becomes vacant, it was stated in a Research Report released this week by Utah Foundation, the private non-profit tax research agency. The Lieutenant Governor in 37 states is immediate heir to tho governor's post if vacated by death or other cause before expiration expir-ation of the prescribed term. Each of the forty-eight states has a Secretary of State, with i powers of the office ranging from ! those of a clerk appointed by the Governor, to those of independently independ-ently elected officials having broad influence in state fiscal management. manage-ment. In thirty-eight of the states the Secretary of State is elected by the people. In seven states he is appointed by the Governor, in two (New Hampshire and Tennessee) he is elected by the Legislature, and in Maine he is appointed by the Legislature. Terms are ell either- two or four years. In twenty-seven states the term is four years, and in the remaining re-maining twenty-one states Secretaries Secre-taries serve for two year terms. Salaries as of January 1, 1950, ranged from $2,000 per year' in Maryland and $3,300 per year in North Dakota, to a high.of $15,000 in New York. The average salary is about $6,884 per year. The Utah Secretary of State receives $5,400 per year. In forty-six states the Secretary of State receives $4,000 or more per year, in forty states he is paid $5,000 or more, in thirty- |
