Roulo v. Board of Auditors

The Legislature of 1887 passed an act (No. 262) providing for the reporting of mortgages to the supervisors and assessing officers of the various counties of this State,, and to the registers of deeds of other counties wherein the mortgagee resided. This duty, under the act, devolved upon the registers of deeds. For making the list, and notifying the proper officers, the register was authorized to receive the following fees:

“The register of deeds shall receive ten cents for every such notice, to be audited and paid in the general manner out of the contingent fund of the county where the…