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Salary of
County
Treasurer.

Salary of
County
Assessor.

Bond.

during any fiscal year: On the first twenty thousand dollars, two per cent.; on all sums over twenty thousand dollars and less than forty thousand dollars, one and one-half per cent.; on all sums over forty thousand dollars and less than sixty thousand dollars, one per cent.; on all sums over sixty thousand dollars, one-half of one per cent.; provided, that he shall not receive any percentage on moneys paid into the county treasury for school purposes. The compensation of the County Auditor shall be allowed by the Board of Supervisors quarterly, and the County Treasurer is hereby authorized to apply the amounts allowed by the State for Auditors' compensation to the payment of such allowances.

COUNTY TREASURER.

SEC. 13. In the County of Modoc, the County Treasurer shall receive a salary of six hundred dollars per annum, which shall be in full compensation for all services required of him by law; provided, that he shall be allowed to retain for his own use and benefit the mileage allowed by law to the County Treasurers for traveling to and from the seat of government, to make their quarterly or semi-annual statements with the Controller and Treasurer of State.

COUNTY ASSESSOR.

SEC. 14. In the County of Modoc, the County Assessor shall receive a salary of seven hundred and fifty dollars per annum, which shall be in full compensation for all services required of him by law; provided, he shall be ex officio Collector of State poll taxes and hospital taxes, and shall be allowed as compensation for his services in collecting said taxes, in addition to the salary above provided, the per cent. allowed by law for collecting the same. He shall also be ex officio Collector of taxes on movable personal property belonging to any person, firm, corporation, association, or company, that does not own real estate in the county, all State poll taxes, all hospital poll taxes, and all poll taxes whatever, except road poll taxes, and he shall receive, as his compensation for collecting said taxes, in addition to the salary alllowed him as Assessor, the percentage allowed by law for collecting the same; provided, that the Sheriff shall not be ex officio Collector of taxes on movable personal property belonging to any firm, corporation, association, or company, that does not own real estate in the county. The County Treasurer is hereby authorized and directed to apply the amounts allowed by the State for Assessors' compensation.

SEC. 15. The Board of Supervisors are hereby empowered to require of the County Assessor, as ex officio Collector of taxes above specified, a bond in such sum as they shall deem necessary, conditioned for the faithful performance of his duty as ex officio Collector of said taxes herein specified; said bond to be in addition to the bond he is required to give as Assessor.

DISTRICT ATTORNEY.

Attorney.

SEC. 16. In the County of Modoc, the District Attorney Salary of shall receive for his services, to be paid quarterly out of District the County General Fund, a salary of five hundred dollars per annum. In addition to the salary herein provided for, said District Attorney shall be entitled to charge and receive ten per cent. on all forfeited bonds and recognizances collected by him; for services rendered by him in the collection of delinquent taxes, ten per cent. on the amount recovered, to be added thereto, if paid before judgment, and if not so paid, then fifteen per cent., to be added to and constitute a part of the judgment, provided, that in no case shall the State or county be liable for such per cent. ; for all amounts collected by him for the State or county, other than delinquent taxes, bonds, or recognizances, eight per cent. on the amount collected, provided, that the compensation in any one case shall not exceed five hundred dollars; for every conviction had under the Act to prohibit gaming, and the Act to prohibit lotteries, raffles, gift enterprises, and other schemes, to be collected from the party or parties offending or convicted, fifty dollars; for each conviction of felony where the penalty is death, fifty dollars; for every other conviction of felony, except as herein provided for, twenty-five dollars; and for each conviction in case of misdemeanor, fifteen dollars. In all convictions the fees herein allowed shall be assessed against the defendant, and shall not become a county charge; provided, however, said fee shall become a charge on the County General Fund in case of the inability of the defendant to pay the same. Should the fees, commissions, and percentage received in any one year by the District Attorney, added to his salary herein provided for, exceed the sum of fifteen hundred dollars, the excess over fifteen hundred dollars shall be paid by him into the county treasury, and shall constitute a part of the County General Fund. Said Fee book. District Attorney shall be required to keep a fee book, in which he shall enter the moneys received by him from all sources whatever, giving date and the nature of the service performed, the party for whom done, and the amount, and shall make quarterly reports to the Board of Supervisors.

SUPERINTENDENT OF PUBLIC SCHOOLS.

Superinten

lic Schools.

SEC. 17. The Superintendent of Public Schools of Modoc compensaCounty shall be allowed for his services five hundred dol- tion of lars per annum, and he shall be allowed, in addition to his dent of Pubsalary, for postage and expressage, a sum equal to one dollar for each school district in the county. Said compensation and allowance for postage and expressage to be paid out of the County General Fund.

FEES OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATOR.

SEC. 18. In the County of Modoc, the Public Adminis

Fees of

trator shall be entitled to receive for his services four per Public Ad- cent. upon the value of the estates administered by him, which per cent. shall be in full compensation for his services.

ministrator.

Fees of
Constables.

Fees of
County
Coroner.

Fees of
County
Surveyor.

FEES OF CONSTABLES.

SEC. 19. For serving summons in civil cases, for each defendant, fifty cents; for summoning any jury before a Justice of the Peace, including mileage, two dollars; for making sales of estrays, the same fees as for sales on execution; for all other services, the same fees as are allowed the Sheriffs for similar services. For services performed by the several officers under the Act concerning water-craft found adrift, and lost money and property, passed April fifth, eighteen hundred and fifty, they shall receive the fees designated in said Act.

FEES OF COUNTY CORONER.

SEC. 20. The Coroner of the County of Modoc shall receive for his services the following fees: For general services in holding an inquest, ten dollars; for each witness subpoenaed, fifty cents; for each mile necessarily traveled in going to place of inquest, thirty cents; for directing or attending the interment of each body upon which an inquest has been held, two dollars. Said fees to be in full compensation for his services.

FEES OF COUNTY SURVEYOR.

SEC. 21. In the County of Modoc, the County Surveyor shall receive the following fees: For the first mile actually run with compass and chain, in wood, or brush, or salt marsh and tide lands, four dollars; for each additional mile, two dollars; for each mile run with compass alone, in wood, or brush, or salt marsh and tide lands, one dollar and fifty cents; for the first mile actually run with compass and chain in open land, three dollars; for each additional mile, one dollar and fifty cents; for each mile run with compass alone in open land, one dollar; for each lot laid out and platted in any city or town, two dollars; for recording a survey, seventy-five cents; for calculating the quantity of each tract of land, or any subdivision thereof (town lots excepted), ten cents for each course; for traveling to the place of survey, for each mile in going only, thirty cents, and if he shall be required, and duly notified to make other surveys, while in the field in the discharge of his official duty, he shall be entitled to mileage only from the most distant place surveyed by him; for ascertaining the location of each town lot in any old survey, measuring and marking the same, one dollar; for copies and certificates, per folio, twenty cents; for erecting a monument at the corner of any survey when required, one dollar; for erecting a monument when running a line at a variation or offset, when required, fifty cents; for copy of plat of any survey, and certificate required by any person or to be transmitted to the Surveyor

General, one dollar, and one-half to be paid by the party requiring the survey. Expenses of assistants shall be an additional charge, to be agreed upon between the parties, or in cases of surveys ordered by the Court, or Board of Supervisors, such compensation as shall be by them allowed.

FEES OF JUSTICES OF THE PEACE.

Justices of

SEC. 22. In the County of Modoc, Justices of the Peace Fees of shall receive fees as follows: For filing each paper, twenty- the Peace. five cents; for issuing any writ or process by which suit is commenced, fifty cents; for entering each cause on his docket, fifty cents; for issuing subpoena, twenty-five cents; for administering an oath or affirmation, twenty-five cents; for each certificate, twenty-five cents; for issuing writ of attachment, or of arrest, or for the delivery of property, fifty cents; for entering any final judgment, for the first folio, one dollar; for each additional folio, twenty cents; for taking or approving any bond or undertaking directed by law to be taken or approved by him, fifty cents; for taking justification to a bond, fifty cents; for swearing a jury, fifty cents; for taking depositions, per folio, twenty cents; for entering a satisfaction of judgment, fifty cents; for copy of a judgment, order, docket, proceedings, or paper in his office, for each folio, twenty cents; for issuing commission to take testimony, fifty cents; for issuing supersedeas to an execution, fifty cents; for making up and transmitting transcript and papers on appeal, one dollar and fifty cents; for issuing search warrants, fifty cents; for issuing an execution, fifty cents; for celebrating marriage and returning certificate thereof to the Recorder, five dollars; for all services and proceedings before a Justice of the Peace in a criminal action or proceeding, whether on examination or trial, three dollars; for taking bail after commitment in criminal cases, one dollar; for entering cause without process, one dollar; for entering judgment by confession and only on affidavits, as required in District Courts, three dollars; for entering every motion, rule, exception, order, or default, twenty-five cents; for transcript of judgment, per folio, twenty cents; for taking an acknowledgment of any instrument, for the first name, fifty cents; for each additional name, twenty-five cents; for all services connected with the posting of estrays, including the transcript for the Recorder, two dollars. In 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 transcript and papers, shall receive two 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. All fees of Justices of the Peace, including those on trial and those on appeal, must, be paid before the Justice shall be compelled to forward any papers on appeal. For all services appertaining to the Coroner's office, which the Coroner is unable to attend to, the Justices of the Peace shall receive the same fees as are allowed the Coroner for similar services.

Salary of

SALARY OF SUPERVISORS.

SEC. 23. In the County of Modoc, members of the Board Supervisors. of Supervisors shall receive a per diem of four dollars for every day in attendance upon said Board of Supervisors, Equalization, and Canvassers, and in addition thereto, twenty cents per mile in going to and from the county seat for the actual distance traveled; provided, that only one mileage shall be charged for any one term of said Board; and it is further provided, that said salary and mileage shall be paid quarterly out of the County General Fund.

Fees of

jurors.

Fees of

Court Commissioners.

FEES OF JURORS.

SEC. 24. In the County of Modoc, grand and trial jurors shall receive three dollars per day for attendance upon a Court of record, and thirty cents per mile for traveling from their residence to the place of trial. No juror who shall be excused from attendance upon his own motion upon the first day of his appearance in obedience to the venire shall receive per diem, but mileage only. In civil cases the party in whose favor the verdict is rendered, before the same shall be entered, shall pay the jury fees, but the same may be recovered as costs from the party losing the case; provided, that Clerks of Courts of record shall keep an account of all moneys received for trials by each juror during the term, and if the sum so received by such juror shall not amount to three dollars per day and mileage, he shall deliver to such juror a certificate of the time and mileage for which he is still entitled to receive pay, which shall be paid out of the County General Fund as other county dues are paid. If in any trial in a civil case the jury be for any cause discharged without finding verdict, the fees of the jury shall be paid by the party who demanded the jury, but may be recovered as costs if he afterwards obtains judgment, and until they are paid no further proceedings shall be allowed in the action. Jurors in a Justice's Court, in civil cases, shall receive three dollars per day, but no mileage, to be taxed against the parties losing the suit.

FEES OF COURT COMMISSIONERS.

SEC. 25. In the County of Modoc, Court Commissioners shall be entitled to charge and receive for their services the following fees: For hearing and determining every ex parte motion for any order or writ, three dollars; for hearing and determining such contested motions, or issues of law or facts as may be referred to them, or for taking proof upon or determining any matter of fact upon which information may be required by the Court, five dollars; for every day spent in the business of the reference in such cases for examining into the qualification of sureties on bonds or undertakings when an exception has been taken to their sufficiency, five dollars; for taking and certifying every affidavit, and for the

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