Mr. CRESWELL. It pays them all 5 dollars a day instead of a portion of them. As the section now stands they receive, generally, 4 dollars a day. They receive, however, 3 dollars for every 100 persons as sessed, contained in the tax list, and a subsequent provision in the section has since been stricken out paying them 25 cents for each permit granted to any tobacco, snuff, or cigar manufacturer. But by the provision commencin on the 330th line an extending to the word “day, ” in the 334th line, all asst assessors when employed outside of the town in which they reside, in addition to the compensation now allowed by law, are to receive during the time they are so employed one dollar peray. Under the existing provisions of the bill, all asst assessors in the country will be paid 5 dollars a day for all days in which they are employed in the exercise of their duties outside of their towns. I presume that that allowance is owing to the additional expense to which they will be subjected in maintaining a horse and carriage, and also in payment for their hotel bills. If the amendment I have offered shall be adopted, I shall then move to strike out this subsequent provision, and thus make the pay of al asst assessors, either in cities or towns, at the uniform sum of 5 dollars perday. In the cities the asst assessors now receive 4 dollars a day forcvery day employed. Their pay, then, is 4 dollars a day for every day in the year, because, I believe, they are employed nearly all the time except Sundays, an excepting such days as they may be necessarily absent, and such days as they may be sick. The result is that their pay is reduced below the sum of $1, 200 perannum, under the general provision of the perdiem. Under the subsequent provision they receive comparatively an insignificant sum. I allude now to the provision paying them 3 dollars for every 100 persons assessed, contained in the tax list. There are scarcely any of them who return on their lists more than from 80 to 100 names. That would make their pay, under that heading, only 3 dollars perannum. The subsequent provision grantm them 25 cents for each permit rante to any tobacco, snuff, or cigar manu acturer being stricken out, they are deprived of the amount of compensation that they received under that clause. It is impossible, in my judgment, in any of the cities of this country to insure the proper men to perform the duties of asst assessors for this sum. The enforcement of this law depends altogether upon the kind of men who are selected as asst as sessors, because they really do the work. It will be impossible, under the provisions of this bill, to secure proper and competent men to discharge the duties of asst assessors at the rate ot'compensation which the law allows. It requires that these men should all rent houses, in the cities, and those houses cannot be obtained at less than from 4 to 450 dollars. That will leave them for actual expenses 7 or 800 dollars. The kind of men required to perform this duty cannot, in my judgment, be procured for that pay. The are certainly men of a superior stamp to those who are required for 1st class clerkships in this city. Most of them are men of families, and it is importantthat there should be appointed men of that stamp. substantial men who may be raised above all temptation to fraud or any inducement to raise money other than that which may be legitimate and proper and honest; and I therefore think that the sum of 5 dollars a day is compensation small enough for that order of men.