Show interesting FACTS TI I 1 ere is a bill before tha th present legi legislature lature providing for tha increasing I 1 ot 0 tees fees collected by county recorders for the recording of 0 instruments and from a hasty perusal of 0 the I 1 measure nu mc asure we find fl nd it contemplates at al mast an lacre increase se of per cent in view of the claims set forth in ia the said bill the news took the pains to lo just collect be some me data dafa showing the number of instruments filed tor far record with it the couney county recorder during tho the past sixteen years the fees collected r by the office each year and the salary expense of maintaining tile the office here is the result ye year ar no dinst fees sala ries 1900 1646 1 20 1 2614 10 a 1502 2310 2340 1655 25 1903 2480 t 1904 2737 2757 ji 2318 1906 2171 1907 2433 2065 23 60 0 1905 1 2978 1379 1910 2532 ao 20 1 1911 2398 2 U 1912 2889 1913 33 oso 1914 0 2906 3 1915 4 3 too in december 1911 the recorders record keeping was changed from pen and ink c copying to type written forms on oil a loose leaf and it will be noted that after the system got to in shape that the ex pause of the office has been much less and the fees have not only paid for the salaries cfall the office force buc have returned to the general fund a handsome hand sonie profit in view of tills this fact box elder county surely will not be in favor of increasing illie cost of recording in 61 mic 91 be county le corda cordt but on it the other hand it the office work vork lo 10 deepa beeps up at the present rate the recording fee might be dee decreased ceased very profitably for the general public the pending bill ought to be defeated for it ft is more than likely that every cow county in the state can call show the same record that this county can and an ail increase in the tee fee would iii indeed be pernicious as well as a genuine hardship upon the people of 0 tills this county in view of the fact that the fees more than pay the expense of the office why should there be more addel unless it ft is a political move to provide something with which to build up a sti strong ong political machine that in turn would woula prove a crusher to lo the creators the slogan Is to keep the taxes town down by dealing a death blow to the bill that asks tor for tile the things set forth in the foregoing would be one way of accomplishing that result |