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Show OFFICE HOLDER ODDITY UVES IN TIPPAH COUNTY RIPI.EV. Miss.. March t Tippah Tip-pah county boaaia a double native curiosity a public official who doesn't think hla salary should be lncraa41 and actually has asked that It be reduced. He Is W. id. sleeks, county tax assessor When elected his office Fisld 100 a year, but the legis- ture recently increased It to 12000. Meeks haa sent the following follow-ing letter to the county board of supervisors: "'When i was elected tax assessor of Tippah county. I did not expect to receive compensation greater than 11800. but when the leglala-ture leglala-ture met my salary waa filed at 12000. Now lo view of the. fact that things I have to buy have come down somewhat and the fact that taxes are so high and times so. tight I want to ask the board In making allowance for my salary during this year, to allow me only $lo0 per month, or a total to-tal of JII00 for the year Instead of KOOO as the law provides. the other two hundred to revert to the common county fund as a present from me to the taxpayers of this county, and as an expression of gratitude and sympathy." |