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num and two deputies at a salary of five dollars each per day for not more than one hundred days in any one year, and two deputies additional, at a salary of five dollars each per day for not more than fifty days in any one year; such deputies to be paid out of the county treasury.

8. The district attorney, two thousand dollars per annum and necessary traveling expenses to be allowed by the board of supervisors.

9. The coroner, such fees as are now or may be hereafter allowed by law.

10. The public administrator, such fees as are now or may be hereafter allowed by law.

11. The superintendent of schools, fifteen hundred dollars per annum, and actual traveling expenses when visiting the schools of his county.

12. The surveyor, such fees as are now or may be hereafter allowed by law; provided, he shall be given all work for the county in which the county employs a surveyor or civil engineer.

13. [Salaries and fees of justices of the peace.] In counties of this class, the township officers shall receive the following compensations, to wit: In townships having a population of over four thousand, justices of the peace shall receive a monthly salary of sixty dollars per month, and constables a monthly salary of sixty-five dollars per month. The above-named salaries shall be in full compensation for all services of said justices of the peace and constables in criminal cases, but said justices of the peace and constables may retain for their own use the fees allowed by law in civil cases.

In townships having a population of more than twentyseven hundred, and not exceeding four thousand, justices of the peace shall receive a monthly salary of thirty dollars per month, and constables a monthly salary of forty dollars per month. The above-named salaries shall be in full compensation for all services of said justices of the peace and constables in criminal cases, but said justices of the peace and

constables may retain for their own use the fees allowed by law in civil cases.

In townships having a population of more than two thousand and less than twenty-seven hundred, justices of the peace shall receive a monthly salary of twenty-five dollars per month and constables a monthly salary of thirty-five dollars per month. The above-named salaries shall be in full compensation for all services of said justices of the peace and constables in criminal cases, but said justices of the peace and constables may retain for their own use the fees allowed by law in civil cases.

In townships having a population of less than two thousand, justices of the peace shall receive a monthly salary of twenty dollars per month and constables a monthly salary of twenty-five dollars per month. The above-named salaries shall be in full compensation for all services of said justices of the peace and constables in criminal cases, but said justices of the peace and constables may retain for their own use the fees allowed by law in civil cases; provided, that where a constable shall be required to travel outside of his own township, in serving or executing a warrant of arrest or any other paper in a criminal case, he shall be allowed, in addition to the salary hereinbefore provided, his actual expenses incurred in serving or executing the same, to be allowed by the board of supervisors; for transporting prisoners to the county jail, the actual expenses of such transportation; and provided further, that for the purpose of this subdivision, the population of the several townships shall be ascertained by multiplying the number of registered voters at the last general election of each township, by five. In addition to the above salaries allowed said justices of the peace and constables, for their services in criminal cases, they may retain for their own use the fees allowed by law in civil cases.

14. [Salaries of supervisors.] Each supervisor, six hundred dollars per annum and twenty cents per mile, traveling to county seat, which shall be in full compensation for all services, both as supervisor and road commissioner; provided, that in case the said supervisors shall not serve as road com

[Pt.IV,Tit.II. missioners, the salary for supervisor shall be four hundred dollars per annum.

15. [Jurors' fees.] For attending as a grand juror, or a trial juror in criminal cases only, in the superior court, for each day's attendance, three dollars; for each mile actually traveled one way as such grand juror, or trial juror in criminal cases, in the superior court, under summons or order of the court, twenty-five cents. The county clerk shall certify to the auditor the number of days' attendance, and the number of miles traveled by each juror and the auditor shall then draw his warrant therefor and the treasurer shall pay the

same.

History: Enacted March 18, 1907, Stats. and Amdts. 1907, p. 507, Kerr's Stats, and Amdts. 1906-7, p. 345. In effect immediately.

A codification of § 190 County Government Act (Hen. d. La, p.

303).

Former statute.-78 C. 270, 271, 20 P. 572 (citing Co. Gov. Act of 1883, § 163, Stats. and Amdts. 1883, p. 352, relative to payment of supervisors-Tuolumne county); 109 C. 493, 495, 41 P. 1081 (citing Co. Gov. Act of 1891, § 195, Stats. and Amdts. 1891, p. 397, relative to compensation of county officers-Stanislaus county); 125 C. 210, 212, 57 P. 901 (citing Co. Gov. Act of 1893, § 195 subd. 15, relative to salary of supervisors); and see Hen. G. L., p. 303, § 190.

Present section.-103 P. 199, 201 (scope of codifying act of 1907).

ARTICLE XXXIV.

COUNTIES OF THE THIRTY-FOURTH CLASS.

§ 4263. Salaries and fees of officers of.

§ 4263. SALARIES AND FEES OF OFFICERS OF. In counties of the thirty-fourth class the county officers shall receive as compensation for the services required of them by law or by virtue of their office, the following salaries, to wit:

1. The county clerk, two thousand four hundred dollars per annum, and during each year in which a general election is held throughout the state he shall in addition to said salary receive each month for the months of August, September, October and November, one hundred dollars, and the same shall be so paid from the same fund as other salaries are paid. 2. The sheriff, four thousand dollars per annum, and the fees, mileage and commissions for the service of all papers issued by any court of the state outside of this county. Also his actual traveling expenses in the execution of a warrant outside of his county issued by a magistrate or court of his county.

3. The recorder, one thousand five hundred dollars per annum; provided, that such recorder shall collect and pay into the county treasury, for the use and benefit of the county, the fees required by law to be so collected; and provided, that when the amount of said fees collected shall amount to more than one hundred and twenty-five dollars in any month, the recorder may receive and retain for his own use, in addition to his salary, all fees in excess of one hundred and twenty-five dollars, and not exceeding one hundred and seventy-five dollars, in any month so collected; so that the amount of fees thus received by the recorder for his own use, plus the salary, shall not exceed the sum of one hundred and seventy-five dollars in any one month.

4. The auditor, one thousand dollars per annum.

5. The treasurer, one thousand four hundred dollars per

annum.

6. The tax-collector, one thousand two hundred dollars per annum, and ten per cent of all licenses collected by him.

7. The assessor, twenty-six hundred dollars per annum; provided, that in counties of this class there shall be one deputy assessor, who shall be appointed by the assessor of said county and who shall hold office from twelve o'clock meridian of the first Monday of March of each year up to twelve o'clock meridian of the first Monday in July of each year. The salary of said deputy assessor herein provided for is hereby fixed at the sum of one hundred dollars per month during which months he shall hold office as herein provided. which said salary shall be paid by said county at the same time and in the same manner and out of the same fund as is the salary of the assessor.

8. The district attorney, fifteen hundred dollars per annum. 9. The coroner, six hundred dollars per annum.

10. The public administrator, such fees as are now or may be hereafter allowed by law.

11. The superintendent of schools, one thousand dollars per annum, and actual traveling expenses while visiting the schools of his county.

12. The surveyor, such fees as are now or may be hereafter allowed by law; provided, he shall be given all work for the county in which the county employs a surveyor or civil engineer; and provided further, that it shall be the duty of the board of supervisors of counties of this class to so employ him.

13. [Salaries and mileage of supervisors.] Supervisors, each the sum of nine hundred dollars per annum for all services performed by them, as supervisors, and members of the board of equalization and road commissioners; provided, that each supervisor shall receive ten cents for each mile traveled by the ordinary route, in going from his resi dence to the county seat and returning, once during each month.

14. [Determining population.] For the purpose of regulating the compensation of justices of the peace and constables, townships of this class of counties are hereby classified according to their population as shown by the federal census of nineteen hundred; [1] townships having a popula

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