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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 hereafter be allowed by law.

13. [Fees of justices of the peace.] Each justice of the peace, the following fees: In civil actions before him, for all services required to be performed by him before trial, two dollars.

For a trial, and all proceedings subsequent thereto, including all affidavits, swearing witnesses and jury, and the entry of judgment, four dollars.

In all cases where judgment is rendered by default or confession, for all services, from the filing of the complaint to and including the entry of judgment, three dollars.

For issuing a writ of attachment, to include all affidavits taking and approving bond, and all oaths and certificates necessary thereto, three dollars.

For all services and proceedings in a criminal action or proceeding whether on examination or trial, three dollars, provided, that if the defendant plead guilty, only two dollars shall be allowed.

For taking bail, after commitment by another magistrate fifty cents.

For making transcript of docket, making up and transmitting papers on appeal, including the certificate to the same, two dollars.

For copies of docket or papers in his office, per folio twenty cents.

For issuing a search warrant, to be paid by the party demanding the same, one dollar.

For celebrating a marriage, and returning the certificate to the recorder, three dollars.

For docketing a judgment or any instrument, for the first name, fifty cents; for each additional name, twenty-five cents. For taking depositions, per folio, twenty cents.

For administering an oath, twenty-five cents, and certificate to same twenty-five cents; for each certificate, twenty-five cents.

For issuing a commission to take testimony, seventy-five cents.

For all services connected with the posting of estrays, including the transcript for the recorder, three dollars.

For issuing an execution and entering satisfaction of the judgment, fifty cents.

In all cases before justices of the peace when the venue shall be changed the justice before whom the action shall be brought, for all services rendered, including the making up and transmission of the manuscript and papers, shall receive three dollars; and the justice before whom the trial shall take place, shall receive the same fees as if the action had been commenced before him.

14. [Fees of constables.] Each constable shall receive the following fees: for serving all summons in civil cases, for each defendant, including the copy required by law, one dollar.

For summoning a jury of twelve or less before a justice, one dollar and fifty cents, for each additional juror above twelve, twenty-five cents.

For taking any bond required by law to be taken, fifty cents.

For subpoenaing each witness, twenty-five cents.

For serving an attachment or levying an execution on the property of a defendant, one dollar and fifty cents.

For summoning and swearing a jury to try the rights of property, and making a verdict, two dollars.

For receiving and taking care of property on execution, order or attachment, his actual necessary expenses, to be allowed by the justice who issued the order, attachment or execution upon the affidavit of the constable that the charges are correct and that the expenses were necessarily incurred.

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For collecting all sums on execution, three per cent, to be charged against the defendant named in the execution. For serving a warrant or order for the delivery of personal property, or making an arrest in a civil case, one dollar and fifty cents.

For making each arrest in criminal cases, two dollars.

For every mile necessarily traveled, in going only, to serve any civil or criminal process or paper, or to take a prisoner before a magistrate or to prison, twenty-five cents; but when two or more persons are served or summoned in the same suit and at the same time, mileage shall be charged only for the most distant, if they live in the same direction For sales of estrays, the same fees as for sales on execution.

For the transportation of prisoners to the county jail the actual necessary expenses.

For attending a justice's court and taking charge of a jury and prisoner when required two dollars for each day of actual attendance upon the court.

For all other services the same fees as are allowed sheriffs for like services.

15. [Salaries and mileage of supervisors.] Each member of the board of supervisors four hundred dollars per annum and twenty cents per mile for traveling from his residence to the county seat, also his actual necessary expenses while acting as ex-officio road overseer or commissioner not to exceed three hundred dollars in any one year.

16. [Fees and mileage of members board of education.] Each member of the board of education, whether appointed or ex-officio, shall receive five dollars per day as compensation for his services while in actual attendance upon said board, and mileage at the rate of twenty cents per mile, one way only, from his residence to the place of meeting of said board. Said compensation of the members of said board shall be paid out of the same fund as the salary of the superintendent of schools is paid. Claims for such services and mileage shall be presented to the board of supervisors, and shall be allowed at the rate above named in the same man

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ner as other claims against the county are allowed. compensation of the members of the county board of education herein provided for is not in addition to that provided in section one thousand seven hundred and seventy of this code. In counties in which there is a county high school, the board of education, acting as high school trustees, shall have power to allow and to pay from the county high school fund a sum not exceeding twenty-five dollars per month to the secretary of such board in full compensation for his services as such, said compensation to be in addition to the per diem herein before allowed to him as a member of said board of education.

History: Former section relating to the survey of lands in two counties, repealed and present section enacted March 18, 1907, Stats. and Amdts. 1907, pp. 521-523, Kerr's Stats. and Amdts. 1906-7, pp. 359-361; amended March 22, 1909, Stats. and Amdts. 1909, p. 644. In effect from and after passage.

A codification of $197 County Government Act (Hen. G. L., p. 314).

Former statute.-88 C. 530, 531, 533, 26 P. 370 (citing Co. Gov. Act of 1889, §§ 201, 2012, 202, Stats. and Amdts. 1889, pp. 296, 297, relative to compensation of officers in the thirty-ninth, thirty-ninth and one-half, and fortieth classes of counties-Ventura county); and see Hen. G. L., p. 314, § 197.

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

ARTICLE XLI.

COUNTIES OF THE FORTY-FIRST CLASS.

§ 4270. Salaries and fees of officers of.

§ 4270. SALARIES AND FEES OF OFFICERS OF. In counties of the forty-first class the county officers shall receive, as compensation for the services required of them by law or by virtue of their offices, the following salaries. to wit:

1. The county clerk, three thousand dollars per annum; and the said county clerk may appoint one deputy county clerk. which said office of deputy county clerk is hereby created. The salary of such deputy county clerk is hereby fixed at twelve hundred dollars per annum, such salary to be paid at the same time and in the same manner as the salary of county officers is paid.

2. The sheriff, four thousand dollars per annum, and actua traveling expenses incurred in the pursuit or arrest of criminals, either in or out of his county.

3. The recorder, one thousand five hundred dollars per annum; and the said recorder may appoint one deputy recorde: which said office of deputy recorder is hereby created. The salary of such deputy recorder is hereby fixed at one tho sand dollars per annum, such salary to be paid at the same time and in the same manner as the salary of county officers is paid.

4. The auditor, one thousand dollars per annum.

5. The treasurer, one thousand five hundred dollars per ar

num.

6. The tax-collector, one thousand dollars per annum, whic shall be in full for all services as tax-collector and as licensecollector.

7. The assessor, two thousand five hundred dollars per annum. The said assessor may appoint one deputy assesser which said office of deputy assessor is hereby created, wh shall serve as such only during the months of March, Apri

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