pension voucher, or any matter relating thereto, nor filing nor swearing to any claim or demand against any county in this state.

Sec. 228. The following are county charges: 1. Charges incurred against the county by virtue of any of the provisions of this act.

2. The traveling and other personal expenses of the district attorney, incurred in criminal cases arising in the county, and in civil actions and proceedings in which the county is interested, and all other expenses necessarily incurred by him in the detection of crime and prosecution of criminal cases, and in civil actions and proceedings and all other matters in which the county is interested. 3. The expenses necessarily incurred in the support of persons charged with or convicted of crime and committed therefor to the county jail. 4. The sums required by law to be paid to the grand and trial jurors and witnesses in criminal

cases.

5. The accounts of the coroner of the county for such services as are not provided to be paid otherwise.

6. All charges and accounts for services rendered by any justice of the peace in the examination or trial of persons charged with crime, not otherwise provided for and allowed by law.

7. The necessary expenses incurred in the support of the county hospitals, poorhouses, and the indigent sick and otherwise dependent poor, whose support is chargeable to the county.

8. The contingent expenses necessarily incurred for the use and benefit of the county.

9. Every other sum directed by law to be raised for any county purpose under the direction of the board of supervisors, or declared to be a county charge.

10. The fees of constables in criminal cases allowed by law.

COST OF CRIMINAL ACTIONS ON REMOVAL.

Sec. 229. When a criminal action is removed before trial, the costs accruing upon such removal and trial shall be a charge against the county in which the indictment or information was found.

COSTS ON REMOVAL-HOW CERTIFIED A PAID.

Sec. 230. The clerk of the county to which su action is removed shall certify the amount of co allowed and certified by the court to the audi of his county, and such auditor shall audit t same and draw his warrant therefor upon treasury of the county from which such acti was removed; and such auditor shall forward said treasurer and auditor of the county fro which said action was transferred, as aforesai a certified copy of the total amount of costs allo ed by the court, giving each item as certified him by the county clerk and the court; and t auditor receiving such certified copy of said cos allowed shall enter the same in his book as charge against the treasury of his county; ar the county treasurer of the county from whic said action was removed must, immediately upo presentation, pay said warrant out of the gener fund of said county; or, if at the date of present tion there is not sufficient money in the said ger eral fund to pay the same, he must indorse upo said warrant, "Not paid for want of funds," an said warrant must be registered, and shall draw interest at the same rate, and be paid in the sam manner, as though it had been drawn by the au ditor of the county where the indictment wa found.

Sec. 231. Counties created or organized afte the passage and approval of this act shall imme diately come under and be governed by its pro visions, so far as the same are applicable there to. When the population of any existing county shall have been reduced, by reason of the crea tion of any new county from the territory thereof below the class and rank first assumed hereunder it shall be the duty of the board of supervisors o such county to designate by order the class t which such county has been reduced by reason thereof, and such county shall thereafter enter the list of such class; provided, that the salary o county officers shall not be affected by reason o such division of the county or order of the board for the term for which they were elected and qual

ified. In any newly created county, for the purpose of fixing the salaries and fees of county and township offices, the board of commissioners appointed to organize said new county, and if no commissioners be appointed, then the board of supervisors of said new county, shall classify said new county according to the population classification of this act. In each case the population shall be numerically fixed, and when so fixed shall be certified to the secretary of state by the board fixing the same.

Sec. 232. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent with this act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 233. The provisions of sections one hundred and fifty-eight to two hundred and fourteen, inclusive, of this act, so far as they change the compensation of any officer therein named, heretofore paid a fixed salary, or heretofore paid a fixed salary and commissions, and not fees or per diem, shall not affect incumbents, unless otherwise provided in any of said sections.

Sec. 234. This act, except as otherwise herein provided, shall take effect and be in force sixty days from and after its passage.

TITLE 62.

COURTS.

Acts relating to: See Code of Civil Procedure, Appendix, titles, Courts, p. 790 et seq.; Process, p. 864.

TITLE 63.

COYOTE SCALPS.

An act fixing a bounty on coyote scalps. [Approved March 31, 1891; Stats. 1891, p. 280.]

This act was repealed by the following act: Gen. Laws-22.

An act to repeal an act entitled "An act fixing bounty on coyote scalps," approved March 1891.

[Approved January 24, 1895; Stats. 1895, chap. In effect immediately.]

The People of the State of California, represente in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: Section 1. An act entitled "An act fixing bounty on coyote scalps," approved March thirty first, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, is hereb expressly repealed.

Sec. 2. This act shall take effect immediately.

TITLE 64.

CRUELTY TO ANIMALS.

The Political Code, sec. 19, also the Penal Code, sec. 23, expressly retained in force "An act for the more effectual prevention of cruelty to animals, approved March 30, 1868"; amended March 15, 1872; 1871-2, 393; but it was afterwards repealed by the following act:

An act for the more effectual prevention of cruelty to animals.

[Approved March 20, 1874; 1873-4, 499.]

This act can be found in the Appendix to the Penal Code, p. 506.

TITLE 65.

CRUELTY TO CHILDREN.

An act for the incorporation of societies for the prevention of cruelty to children.

[Approved April 3, 1876; 1875-6, 830.]

This act can be found in the Appendix to the Penal Code, p. 570.

TITLE 66.

DEAF, DUMB, AND BLIND.

A reference to the acts relating to this subject can be found in Deering's Annotated Political Code under section 2282. In addition to those there referred to, consult the following:

An act to provide for certain improvements at the deaf, dumb, and blind asylum.

[Approved March 4, 1887; 1887, 16.]

The act appropriated thirty-four thousand five hundred dollars for the purpose indicated.

An act to provide improvements for the deaf, dumb, and blind asylum, and making an ap propriation for the same.

[Approved March 16, 1889; 1889, 303.]

The act appropriated seventy-nine thousand five hundred dollars for the purpose indicated.

An act to provide for the completion and equipment of the deaf and dumb and blind asylum, and to make an appropriation therefor.

[Approved March 23, 1893; Stats. 1893, p. 292.J The act appropriated $63,500 for the purpose indicated.

An act to appropriate money to pay the directors of the California Institute for the Deaf, Dumb, and Blind, for the grading and paving of Dwight Way, in front of the lands of the Institute for the Deaf, Dumb, and Blind, of Berkeley, California, which work was performed and materials furnished under a contract with Guy H. Chick, superintendent of streets of the town of Berkeley, California, his authority having been acquired under the general street law of this state.

[Stat. approved March 31, 1897; Stats. 1897, chap. ccxxxvii.]

Four hundred and eighty-seven dollars was appropriated for this purpose.