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SEC. 708. Those of the State Board of Education are Education. prescribed in Chapter III of Title III of Part III of this

Trustees of
Normal
School.

Officers of
Libraries.

Directors of

State
Prison.

Officers of
Insane
Asylum.

Trustees of

Asylum for
Deaf,
Dumb, and
Blind.

Trustees of

State

Burying

Grounds.

Yosemite and Big

Code.

SEC. 709. Those of the Trustees of the State Normal School in Chapter II of Title III of Part III of this Code.

SEC. 710. Those of the Trustees of the State Library, State Librarian, and Librarian of the Supreme Court Library, in Chapter III of Title V of Part III of this Code.

SEC. 711.

Those of the Directors of the State Prison are prescribed in Part III of the Penal Code.

SEC. 712. Those of the Directors and other officers of the Insane Asylum are prescribed in Chapter I of Title V of Part III of this Code.

SEC. 713. Those of the Trustees of the Asylum for the Deaf, Dumb, and Blind, in Chapter II of Title V of Part III of this Code.

SEC. 714. Those of the Trustees of the State Burying Grounds are prescribed in Title VIII of Part III of this Code.

SEC. 715. Those of the Commissioners of the YosemTree Com- ite Valley and the Mariposa Big Tree Grove are prescribed in Title VIII of Part III of this Code.

missioners.

CHAPTER IV.

Number, designation, and mode of election.

JUDICIAL OFFICERS.

SECTION 726. Number, designation, and mode of election.

SEC. 726. The number, designation, and mode of election of judicial officers are fixed in Title I, Part I of the Code of Civil Procedure.

CHAPTER V.

SALARIES OF JUSTICES OF THE SUPREME COURT AND DISTRICT
JUDGES, AND OFFICERS CONNECTED WITH THE SUPREME
COURT.

SECTION 736. Salary of Justices of Supreme Court.

737. Salary of District Judges.

738. Same.

739. Salaries of officers connected with the Supreme Court.

SEC. 736. The annual salary of each Justice of the Salary of Supreme Court is six thousand dollars.

SEC. 737. The annual salaries of the Judges of the Fourth, Sixth, Twelfth, and Fifteenth Judicial Districts are six thousand dollars each.

Justices of
Supreme
Court.

Salary of
Judges.

District

SEC. 738. The annual salaries of the Judges of the Same. other districts are five thousand dollars each.

SEC. 739. The annual salaries of the officers connected Salaries of

with the Supreme Court are as follows:

The Reporter of the Decisions, six thousand dollars;

The Phonographic Reporter, three thousand dollars;,
The Secretary, three thousand dollars;

The Bailiff, twelve hundred dollars.

officers connected with the Supreme Court.

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Election

and term of office.

Genera duties.

May
appoint
Deputy.
Fees.

ARTICLE I.

CLERK OF THE SUPREME COURT.

SECTION 749. Election and term of office.

750. General duties.

751. May appoint Deputy.

752. Fees.

753. Disposition of fees.

754. Settlements, when and how made.

755. Salary of Clerk.

756. Salary of Deputy.

757. Official bond.

SEC. 749. The Clerk of the Supreme Court is elected at the same time the Governor is elected, and holds his office for the term of four years from and after the first Monday in December next succeeding his election.

SEC. 750. The Clerk of the Supreme Court must perform such duties as are prescribed in the Penal Code and Code of Civil Procedure, and such duties as may be required of him by the rules and practice of the Court.

SEC. 751. He may appoint a Deputy.

SEC. 752. He must collect in United States coin the following fees:

For each civil case appealed to the Supreme Court twenty-five dollars (payable when the transcript is filed), in full for all services rendered in each case up to and including remittitur to Court below;

For dismissing on Clerk's certificate, seven dollars and fifty cents;

For all services rendered in each original proceeding, fifteen dollars;

For certificate of admission as attorney and counselor, ten dollars;

For making and certifying each copy of any paper, document, or record in his office, the sum of twenty-five cents per folio; but this fee must not be taxed against the parties to suits for any paper or copies of papers necessary up to and including the remittitur.

SEC. 753. All fees collected by him, except such as

of fees.

may be collected under the laws in force prior to the first Disposition day of December, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, must be paid into the State Treasury; eighty per cent thereof to the credit of the General Fund, and twenty per cent thereof to the credit of the Supreme Court Library Fund.

ments,

when and

how made.

SEC. 754. He is responsible and must account for and Settlein his settlements with the Controller must be charged with the full amount of all fees collected or chargeable. and accruing in causes brought into the Court for services rendered therein up to the time of each settlement (except such fees as are collected under the laws referred to in the preceding section), and must at the end of every month pay the same into the State Treasury; he must also at the end of every month render to the Controller of State, in such form as that officer prescribes, an account in detail, under his own oath, of all fees chargeable and accruing in causes brought into Court and not included in his previous accounts rendered. His salary must not be allowed or paid until all fees so accruing, and for which he is chargeable, have been accounted for and paid over.

SEC. 755. The annual salary of the Clerk of the Salary of Supreme Court is four thousand dollars.

Clerk.

SEC. 756. The annual salary of the Deputy Clerk is Salary of eighteen hundred dollars.

Deputy.

bond.

SEC. 757. The Clerk of the Supreme Court must exe- Official cutę an official bond in the sum of ten thousand dollars.

NOTE. This Article is founded upon the following statutes: 1850, p. 74; 1868, p. 215; 1870, p. 157.

ARTICLE II.

REPORTERS OF THE SUPREME COURT.

SECTION 767. Reporter of Decisions, appointment and term.

768. Affidavit to be made by appointee before order is entered.

769. Phonographic Reporter, appointment and term.

770. Duties of Phonographic Reporter.

771. General duties of Reporter of Decisions.

Reporter of Decisions, appointment and term.

Affidavit to be made by appointee before order is entered.

Phono

graphic Reporter, appointment and term.

Duties of Phonographic Reporter.

General

daties of

SECTION 772. Same.

773. Reports, what to include.

774. Justices must supervise publication.

775. Proof sheets.

776. Original papers.

777. Style of reports.

778. Number of volumes.

779. Printing and binding.

780. Disposition of edition.
781. Same.

SEC. 767. The Supreme Court may, by an order entered upon the minutes, appoint a Reporter of its decisions, to hold office at its pleasure.

SEC. 768. After the order is made, and before it is entered on the minutes, the person named therein must take and file with the Clerk an affidavit as follows:

"I do swear that I have neither solicited nor procured any other person to advise, suggest, counsel, or solicit my appointment to the position of Reporter of the Decisions of this Court."

SEC. 769. The Supreme Court may also in like manner appoint a Phonographic Reporter for the Court, to hold office at its pleasure.

SEC. 770. It is the duty of the Phonographic Reporter to attend upon the Court during its sessions, and to:

1. Note the points made by counsel in oral arguments; 2. To take down all opinions of the Court delivered orally;

3. Write out his notes in longhand, upon the order of the Court, and deliver such writing to the Reporter of the Decisions of the Court;

4. Perform such other duties as may be imposed upon him by the Court or a Justice thereof.

SEC. 771. The Reporter of the Decisions of the Supreme Reporter of Court must prepare a report of such cases decided as he may by the Court be directed to report.

Decisions.

Same.

SEC. 772. He must, from the notes delivered to him by the Phonographic Reporter, prepare a report of each of

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