Tax Lien Bureau Planned for City

TAX LIEN BUREAU PLANNED FOR CITY Rulers Approve Resolution Setting Up New Department Under Brunner A city bureau of tax liens will be created through an ordinance passed yesterday on first reading by the City Commission. Approval was given a resolution placing the proposed bureau under the direction of Mayor George E. Brunner, director of the department of revenue and finance. Personnel of the bureau will include a chief counsel and three assistants. The chief counsel will receive $4500 annually, and the assistants, $2250, minus five percent. The bureau will have charge of foreclosures, purchases, sales and assignments of realty and direct appointment of receivers to collect rents on city-owned property. In the absence of an ordinance the work has been carried on by Isadore H. Hermann, head of the bureau, and Robert Burk Johnson, Benjamin J. Dzick and Joseph Lipkin. An ordinance passed on first reading fixes the salary of deputy clerk of the city district court at $1600 annually. The Commission approved the ordinance and received and filed a letter from Joseph Varbalow, judge of the court, advising he had appointed Frank J. Suttill, of the Seventh ward. William H. Bovell, of 516 Clinton street, and Albert Thompson, of 421 North Front street, were elected constables by nomination of Commissioner Mary W. Kobus. Bonds of three constables were approved. The Commission approved on first reading an ordinance amending an existence [sic] ordinance regulating dealers in junk transferring jurisdiction from the department of park and public property to the department of public works. A section fixing penalties for violations was amended to provide fines totaling not more than $200, a county jail sentence not to exceed 90 days, or both.