rants on presentation out of the salary fund of the county treasury. STATEMENT OF FEES MUST PRECEDE WARRANT FOR SALARY. Sec. 221. The auditor shall not draw his warrant for the salary of any such officer for any month until the latter shall first have presented him with the certificate of the county treasurer, showing that he has made the statement and settlement for that month required in this act. OFFICIAL SERVICES AND FEES. Sec. 222. The officers mentioned in this act are not in any case, except for the state or county, to perform any official services, unless upon the prepayment of fees prescribed for such services, except in cases on habeas corpus and for naturalization, and on such payment the officer must perform the services required. For every failure, or refusal to perform official duty when the fees are tendered, the officer is liable on his official bond. ACCOUNT AND RECEIPT FOR FEES. Sec. 223. Every officer, upon receiving any fees for official duty or service, may be required by the person paying the same to make out, in writing, and deliver to such person a particular account of such fees, specifying for what they, respectively, accrued, and shall receipt the same; and if he refuse or neglect to do so when required, he shall be liable to the party paying the same in treble the amount so paid. POSTER OF FEES OF JUSTICES. Sec. 224. It shall be the duty of each justice of the peace to prepare, and keep posted in a conspicuous place in his office, a plain and legible statement of the fees allowed by law to justices of the peace and constables, upon pain of forfeiting, for tailure so to do, fifty dollars, to be recovered, with costs, by any person, before any other justice of the peace of the county. ILLEGAL FEES. Sec. 225. The board of supervisors, upon receiving a certified copy of the record of conviction of any officer for receiving illegal fees, must declare his office vacant. SERVICES PERFORMED BY SUCCESSOR. Sec. 226. It shall be the duty of all officers in this act named to complete the business of their respective offices to the time of the expiration of their respective terms; and in case any officer at the close of his term shall leave to his successor official labor to be performed, which it was his duty to perform, he shall be liable to pay to his successor the full value for such services. NO FEES ON HABEAS CORPUS. Sec. 227. No fee or compensation of any kind must be charged or received by any officer for duties performed or services rendered in proceedings upon habeas corpus or naturalization, nor for administering or certifying the oath of office, nor fees or other compensation shall be paid for service rendered in an affidavit or application relating to the securing of a pension or the payment of a pension voucher, or any matter relating thereto, nor filing Bor 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 á charge against the county in which the indictment or information was found. COSTS ON REMOVAL-HOW CERTIFIED AND PAID. Sec. 230. The clerk of the county to which such action is removed shall certify the amount of costs allowed and certified by the court to the auditor of his county, and such auditor shall audit the same and draw his warrant therefor upon the treasury of the county from which such action was removed; and such auditor shall forward to said treasurer and auditor of the county from which said action was transferred, as aforesaid, a certified copy of the total amount of costs allowed by the court, giving each item as certified to him by the county clerk and the court; and the auditor receiving such certified copy of said costs allowed shall enter the same in his book as a charge against the treasury of his county; and the county treasurer of the county from which said action was removed must, immediately upon presentation, pay said warrant out of the general fund of said county; or, if at the date of presentation there is not sufficient money in the said general fund to pay the same, he must indorse upon said warrant, "Not paid for want of funds," and said warrant must be registered, and shall draw interest at the same rate, and be paid in the same manner, as though it had been drawn by the auditor of the county where the indictment was found. Sec. 231. Counties created or organized after the passage and approval of this act shall immediately come under and be governed by its provisions, so far as the same are applicable thereto. When the population of any existing county shall have been reduced, by reason of the creation 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 of such county to designate by order the class to which such county has been reduced by reason thereof, and such county shall thereafter enter the list of such class; provided, that the salary of county officers shall not be affected by reason of such division of the county or order of the board, for the term for which they were elected and qualified. 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 ite passage. Regulating practice in supreme court. [Stats. 1871-2, p. 391.] Superseded by the constitution of 1879. ACT 843. Determining who must act as chief justice of the supreme court. [Stats. 1871-2, p. 364.] Superseded by the constitution of 1879. ACT 844. To transfer records, etc., from the courts existing prior to 1879. [Stats. 1880, p. 2.] This act appears in full in Code of Civil Procedure, Appendix, p. 782. ACT 845. Authorizing judges of superior court in counties, and cities and counties, having a population of two hundred thousand or over, to appoint a secretary. [Stats. 1895, p. 98.] This act appears in full in Code of Civil Procedure, Appendix, p. 764. ACT 846. To confer upon the superior court of each county powers heretofore possessed by the district, county and probate courts. [Stats. 1880, p. 23.] Other acts relating to courts can be found in the Appendix to the Code of Civil Procedure, pp. 763 et séq. TITLE 118. ACT 851. COYOTE SCALPS. Fixing a bounty on coyote scalps. [Approved March 31, 1891. Stats. 1891, p. 280.] Repealed 1895, 1. TITLE 119. ACT 856. CRESCENT CITY. To incorporate. [Stats. 1854, 197.] Amended 1857, 56, 225; 1858, 233. ACT 857. Authorizing location of townsite of. [Stats. 1859, p. 24.] Amended 1860, 279; 1862, 226. ACT 858. Ceding lands to. [Stats. 1867-8, p. 335.] This act granted to Crescent City its water-front. Relating to the road, poll and property tax in. [Stats. Cal. Rep.Cit. 59, 549. 1877-8, 204.] |