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Show SHERIFF'S POWERS AT FIRES LIMITED Not even through the sheriff's office can residents of the county gain fire-fighting fire-fighting service from the city fire department, depart-ment, according to an opinion written yesterday yes-terday by the county attorney. Previously an opinion of the county attorney at-torney had been to the effect that the county commissioners could not, under the provisions of the statutes, appropriate money to pay the city fire department for making runs into the county. Thereupon the county commissioners ordered that calls for the city fire department depart-ment be put through the sheriff's office, arguing; that since the sheriff is empowered empow-ered to put out fires on the public domain do-main this might be managed. Sheriff John S. Corless wrote County Attorney H. L. Mulliner, inquiring as to his right to call out the city fire department depart-ment at the expense of the county to control con-trol fires on private property in the county. The answering" opinion of the county attorney yesterday was that the sheriff could not, "under the law, comply with the order of the county commissioners. |