CHAP. CCCLXVI.—An Act to amend an Act entitled an Act to regulate the salaries and fix the compensation of certain officers in the County of Napa, approved March sixteenth, eighteen hundred and seventy-four. [Approved March 26, 1878.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and Sheriff. SECTION 1. Section two of said Act is hereby amended to Fees of read as follows: Section 2. The Sheriff of Napa County shall receive such fees for his services as are now allowed by law, together with compensation allowed him by law for the collection of licenses. SEC. 2. All Acts and parts of Acts in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed. SEC. 3. This Act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. CHAP. CCCLXVII.-An Act to regulate the salaries and fix the compensation of certain county officers in the County of Nevada. [Approved March 26, 1878.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. Such salaries and fees shall be allowed and Salaries and paid to the following officers of the County of Nevada as in fees allowed. this Act provided, and not otherwise, and shall be in full compensation for all official services required of them by law. pervisors. SEC. 2. Each member of the Board of Supervisors shall compensabe entitled to receive for his services, for each day's neces- tion of Susary attendance on the business of the county, the sum of eight dollars, but not to exceed in the aggregate, during any one year, five hundred dollars; and he shall receive twenty cents per mile for each mile necessarily traveled in going to and returning from the county seat; provided, that no charge shall be made for more than one trip going from and returning to the residence of such Supervisor at each term held. SEC. 3. The County Assessor shall receive a salary of two Salary of thousand dollars per annum; and he shall be allowed three Assessor. Deputy Assessors, who shall each be paid by the county at the rate of six dollars per day for each day actually employed during the term allowed by law for the assessment of property. He shall also be allowed to appoint one Clerk, to act for a period of not more than four months during the time assessments are made, who shall be allowed by the Board of Supervisors, as compensation for such services, a sum not exceeding five hundred dollars in any one year. Salary of SEC. 4. The Sheriff shall receive a salary of three thou- deputies. Salary of Salary of Salary of Salary and District sand dollars per annum, and be allowed to retain for his own use the mileage allowed by law. The Sheriff shall be allowed one Under-Sheriff, and one Deputy Sheriff, who shall also be ex officio Jailer, who must reside at the county seat, who shall receive the following salaries: the UnderSheriff shall receive fifteen hundred dollars per annum, and the Deputy Sheriff shall receive, for all services required of him as such Deputy Sheriff and ex officio Jailer, a salary of twelve hundred dollars per annum. The Sheriff shall be allowed one additional Deputy Sheriff, whenever the Board of Supervisors shall deem it necessary, who shall receive, for all services required of him, a salary at the rate of twelve hundred dollars per annum for such time only as the Board shall, by an order entered upon the records, direct. SEC. 5. The County Clerk shall be ex officio Clerk of the District Court, the County Court, the Probate Court, and of the Board of Supervisors, and ex officio Auditor; he shall receive, in full compensation for all services required of him by law, the sum of two thousand and seven hundred dollars per annum. The County Clerk shall be allowed one Deputy Clerk, who shall be Deputy Clerk of all the Courts in said County, the Board of Supervisors, and Deputy Auditor, who shall receive, for all services required of him, a salary of eighteen hundred dollars per annum. SEC. 6. The County Recorder shall receive, for all services, a salary of two thousand dollars per annum. The County Recorder shall be allowed one Deputy Recorder, who shall receive, for all services, a salary of twelve hundred dollars per annum. The County Recorder shall be allowed one additional Deputy Recorder, at such times as the Board of Supervisors may deem it necessary, who shall receive a salary of twelve hundred dollars per annum for such time only as the Board, by an order on their minutes, may direct. All fees paid into and received by the County Recorder for recording of notices of location of mining claims or other documents, and all fees received for any official services, shall be considered as public or county moneys, and must be paid over to the County Treasurer on the first Monday of each calendar month. SEC. 7. The County Treasurer shall be ex officio Tax Collector, and must perform all the duties by law imposed upon each office respectively. He shall receive, in full compensation for his services as Treasurer and ex officio Tax Collector, a salary of twenty-five hundred dollars per annum, and he shall also be allowed to retain for his own use all sums allowed him by the State for mileage, and also the fees and percentage now allowed by law for collecting licenses and poll taxes. SEC. 8. The District Attorney shall receive, for all services required of him by law, a salary of two thousand dollars per annum, and the following additional fees and percentage: for each conviction for felony, when the punishment is death, the sum of fifty dollars; for each conviction for other felonies, twenty-five dollars; for each conviction for misdemeanor, the sum of fifteen dollars. Which said. several sums shall be assessed against the person convicted; and if the same cannot be collected from the person so convicted, then it shall be adjudged an indebtedness against the said county, and be audited by the Board of Supervisors of said county. For all collections on bonds or forfeited recognizances, ten per centum; for all actions in which the State or county shall be a party thereto, he shall receive the same compensation, fee, or percentage allowed by the general laws of the State to District Attorneys. SEC. 9. The County Judge shall receive, for all services Salary of required of him by law, a salary of two thousand four hun-County dred dollars per annum. Judge. certain offi fees. SEC. 10. The Sheriff, Clerk, Recorder, and Tax Collector, Duty of named in this Act, who are entitled to charge and collect or cers entitled receive any fees, commissions, percentage, or other compen- to receive sation of whatever nature or kind, allowed by law for services by them or their deputies performed in their several official capacities, or for the performance of duties appertaining to said offices, shall collect and safely keep the same, and on the first Monday of each month shall account for, settle, and pay the amount by them received (excepting such fees, mileage, and percentage as they are to receive for their own use under the provisions of this Act) to the Treasurer of said county. The County Clerk must keep a debit and Duty of credit account with each party litigant, in the Registers of Clerk. Action of the various Courts in said county, charging each of the parties litigant with the items of services rendered, entering the amount of fees charged in appropriate columns, and crediting all sums of money paid or deposited for fees; he must also keep a fee book, in which shall be entered, in appropriate columns, all sums of money deposited or received for fees, showing from whom and for what purpose the same was received, and also showing all moneys disbursed or refunded to litigants, to whom the same was paid, or for what purpose disbursed. The County Clerk, on the commencement of any civil action in either of the Courts of said Nevada County, must demand a deposit of at least ten dollars from the party plaintiff, or if the case be on appeal from some other Court, then such deposit must be demanded from the appellant; he must also demand a deposit of at least three dollars from the defendant in each case, which sums, when paid, must be entered to the credit of the proper party in the Register of Actions, and if said deposit is exhausted by fees earned before the termination of the suit, he must demand a further deposit from the party owing the same. Upon the termination or settlement of a case, if the deposit shall exceed the fees earned, the County Clerk shall, upon application, refund the excess to the party entitled thereto. The Sheriff must keep a fee book, in which shall be entered Sheriff to all fees and mileage earned and received, entering in sepa- ok. rate columns the amounts belonging to the county and the amounts he is by law allowed to retain for his own use. The Recorder must keep a fee book, in which shall be entered the date of filing each document for record, with the title of the same, the name of the person at whose request the doc keep fee be kept open ument is filed, and the amount of fees charged and collected therefor; he must enter in such book all fees earned, showFee books to ing the nature of services rendered. The fee books required to the public. to be kept by the several officers named in this Act shall, at all office hours, be open to the inspection of the Board of Supervisors or any citizen; and each of said officers shall, on the first Monday of each month, make out and verify by oath, and file with the Auditor, a full and correct statement, from said book or books, of all fees received and disbursed by them for the preceding month. All fees or compensation for official services which, under this Act, are required to be paid to the County Treasurer, shall be credited to the General Fund of the county. Duty of Board to examine fee book. Salary of officers; SEC. 11. The Board of Supervisors must examine, quarterly, the fee book of the County Clerk, and compare the entries therein with the entries of cash received and disbursed in the various Registers of Action. They must also examine the fee books of the Sheriff and Recorder, at each regular quarterly session of the Board, and must settle the accounts of each office to date of the first Monday of their session; and such settlement and approval of said accounts must be entered on their minutes. SEC. 12. The County Auditor of Nevada County shall, on when paid. the first Monday of each month, draw his warrant on the County Treasurer for one-twelfth part of the yearly salary of all officers entitled to receive the same, which shall be paid out of the General Fund; provided, he shall not issue his warrant for any salary in advance. Repeal. SEC. 13. The Act entitled "An Act to regulate the salaries and fix the compensation of certain county officers in the County of Nevada," approved March fifth, eighteen hundred and seventy, and all Acts amendatory thereof or supplementary thereto, and all Acts or parts of Acts in conflict with the provisions of this Act, so far as the same apply to the County of Nevada, are hereby appealed. SEC. 14. This Act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. CHAP. CCCLXVIII.-[See volume of Amendments to the Clerk to make new Great CHAP. CCCLXIX.-An Act to provide a new Great Register for the County of Yolo, and re-register the voters thereof. [Approved March 26, 1878.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. The Clerk of the County of Yolo must, within thirty days after the passage this Act, procure a new book for the registration of electors of said county, to be known as the Great Register of the County of Yolo, in which must be registered the names of all the qualified electors of said county, in the manner required by Chapter Three, of Article. Three, of Title Two, of the Political Code, except as in this Act otherwise provided. re-register SEC. 2. Upon the demand of any elector of said county, Clerk to whose name appears on the former Great Register thereof, qualified and who shall show to the satisfaction of the Clerk or electors. Assessor of said county that he is the person named therein, it shall be the duty of said Clerk or Assessor to re-register or enroll the name of such person without the proof by affidavit, as provided in section one thousand and ninetyseven (1097) of the Political Code. SEC. 3. Upon demand of any naturalized citizen, resident of said county, whose name appears on the former Great Register thereof, and who shall show to the satisfaction of the said Clerk or Assessor that he is the person named therein, his name shall be registered or enrolled without the production of his certificate of naturalization or proof of the loss of the same. SEC. 4. It shall be the duty of said Clerk to appear in Registering; person or by deputy, at some public place in each of the how done. several townships in said county, at least thirty days prior to the first general or special election held after the passage of this Act, for the purpose [of] registering the names of the said electors, of which due notice of the time and place shall be given in such manner as the Board of Supervisors of said county may direct. SEC. 5. The Clerk shall be entitled to receive for his own Fee of use the sum of twenty-five (25) cents for each name entered Clerk upon the new Great Register, which fees shall be a county charge, and payable out of the County Salary Fund. Assessor. SEC. 6. The Assessor shall be entitled to receive for his Fee of own use the sum of twenty-five (25) cents for each name registered by him or his deputies, which fees shall be a county charge, and payable out of the County Salary Fund. SEC. 7. The former Great Register must be preserved by old Register the said County Clerk, but the same shall not be used for to be prethe purpose of any election after the first day of June, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight. SEC. 8. All Acts and parts of Acts in conflict with the provisions of this Act are hereby repealed. SEC. 9. This Act shall take effect from and after its passage. served. |