Show SALARY OF DEPUTY County Attorney Holds That I Must Not Exceed TwoThirds of Principals Salary County Attorney Christensen rendered ren-dered an opinion to the Board of County Commissioners yesterday on a salary question About nine months ago the Commissioners under the impression hat the Legislature had passed a bill permitting them to fix the salary of a deputy at more than twothirds of the sum received by his principal fixed the alary of W O Carbls at 110 per month This was done In part how ever for the reason so It is claimed that Mr Carbls was doing considerable consider-able extra work In the ofllce About three months ago the Commissioners Commis-sioners learned that the bill In question I only passed the House and they then decided in view of the fact that Mr I Carbis had done much extra work to How him the 1 per month as com ensatlon for overtime Later the mater I mat-er was referred to the County Attor ey for an opinion as to whether or not i a deputy who was drawing n salary of wothirds the amount of his principal could be allowed additional compensation compensa-tion for extra work Pending the dec sion of the County Attorney Mr Carbls continued to draw S110 per month until un-til at the present time he had drawn 90 more than his salary would have amounted to at 100 per month Mr ChrIstensen holds In view of the provisIon of the statute governing the mater that under no consideration can a deputy draw to exceed tworthlrds of the amountr of the salary oC his principal and as the Assessor only re elves 150 per month he holds accord ngly that Mr Carbls cannot draw to exceed 5100 per month In view of this hofcing the Commissioners Commis-sIoners have directed tho County Auditor Audi-tor to withhold 30 from Mr Carblss January check which amount will be covered back Into the county treasury The decision also affects several employees em-ployees of the County Recorders ofllce I |