Thursday, July 21, 2011

DeSoto Mississippi Chancery clerk's fees often from citizens' hard times

W.E. Davis

W.E. Davis

Although the county was glad to get the money, much of it came from individuals' bad circumstances, including collections from delinquent tax fees, divorce filings, foreclosures and pulling off citizens' filing to not to be heard after paying Davis' office...
 
Davis' office in the courthouse on the Hernando square, with 13 full-time and three part-time workers, tallied a 2010 gross income of just over $1 million; Davis' salary is capped by law at $90,000.
 
 
Since 1996, when the state chancery clerk salary cap went into effect, Davis said, his office has returned some nearly $3.8 million to DeSoto. Clerks' salaries prior to the change were fee-based.
 

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