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Cleveland Morning Leader, 12 April 1864
(4 inches)
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p.4, col.2
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200 - L Apr. 12:4/2 - City council last evening fixed the salaries of city
officers for the coming year. The salaries, compared with last year's,
are: 1863-4 1864-5
City auditor - - - - - * - * * * * * * *
. . . City clerk $ 800 $ 1,000
Health officer and infirmary physician 1,500 1,500
City civil engineer 1,500 1,500
Supt. of markets 400 500
Chief engineer of fire department 500 800
Gas inspector 300 300
Supt. of infirmary 500 600.
Total - $5,500 $6,200
In addition to the regular salary, last year, as city civil engineer,
an appropriation of $300 was made by the council raking the total salary,
received for the year, by that officer, $1,800.
"The increase in the salary of the Chief Engineer of the Fire Depart-
ment is especially commendable. The office is one of great responsibility,
demanding an experienced, quick, courageous, comm inding man. It is also
a difficult, hazardous, expensive, and annoying office. Five hundred dol-
lars was a salary altogether too small for a good Fire Engineer, and
Cleveland ought not to have any but a good one." - (4)