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Show RECORDER'S OFFICE IS RUNAJ A LOSS Official Suggests Legislation to Increase Fees for the Service Rendered. POINTS TO INJUSTICE Declares Majority Pays for Work Done for Benefit of Minority. , Because the fees of the countv recorder's record-er's office have fallen short by 572.30.60 of paying the expenses of the office in the past five years, the board of comity commissioners com-missioners of Salt Lake county determined yesterday morning to ask for corrective legislation to make the fees commensurate with the service rendered. That the office had been run for five years past at a total loss of the amount named, or an average of $1-1, 461. 72 annually, an-nually, was called to the attention of the board in a report submitted by Lreorse H. Islaub, county recorder. The report shows, however, that office expense in excess of receipts was cut in lf16 to S7476.65, as against 516.197.67 in 1914. Recorder Islaub observes in his letter let-ter to the board that this may be yet further fur-ther reduced by economic methods being instituted in the office, but he scouts the possibility that the office can be run without some loss on the present fee schedule, and recommends a change. Injustice Noted. Kecodrer Islaub advances the argument that under the present fee system the majority of taxpayers is being required to pay "a considerable part of the cost of a service that only a minority receives. He points out that those who receive the service of the office should pay the cost and that only through the charging of a sufficiently high schedule of fees to make the office self-supporting can they be made to do so. otherwise, he argues, the majority of taxpayers will continue to help pay for service that is to the minority onlv. Acting upon the information furnished, the board of commissioners insturcted the county attorney to draw a bill for introduction intro-duction to the legislature that would provide pro-vide for revision of the fee schedule to make the county recorder's office self-supporting. self-supporting. It will provide for amendment amend-ment of chapter 91, compiled laws of btah. 1907, "Fixing Fees of County Recorders." Changes Suggested. Changes suggested by Recorder Islaub as being needed In the fee schedule and calculated to bring about the needed balance bal-ance between receipts and disbursements are as follows: Par. No. 2 First folio increased from 50c to $1.00; each additional folio from 20c to 25c; each additional description from 10c to 2oc. Par. No. 3 Each additional right of way from 10c to l."c; each additional name from 10c to 25c; each additional mining claim from 10c to 25c. Par. No. 4 From 10c per folio to 15c. Par. No. 7 Releases on margin from 2oc to 50c; additional description from 10c to 25c; additional name from 10c to 2oc; filing chattel mortgages, 60c. In his letter to the board of commissioners commis-sioners the countv recorder details the amount of detail work imposed upon the office In the filing of a deed at a fee of 70 cents. He concludes the paragraph of technical information with a venture that (7 would be charged by any private institution in-stitution for the same amount of work, and says that the actual cost to the recorder's re-corder's office is in excess of S2. |