spectively: "Names of Married Women," "Names of Their Husbands," "Nature of Instruments Recorded," "When Recorded," "Where Recorded." 21. An index to the register of births and deaths.

22. Such other books of record and indices as are or may be required by law.

23. An index of decrees of distribution in probate, labeled: "Decrees of Distribution," divided into six columns, headed, respectively: "Whose Estate," "Name of Administrator," "Names of Distributees" "Date of Decree," "In What Court," "Where Recorded."

§ 122. The recorder must keep in his office a book, to be called "Certificates of Sales," and record therein all certificates of sales of real estate sold under execution, or under order made in any judicial proceeding. He must also prepare an index thereto, in which, in separate columns, he must enter the names of the plaintiff in the execution, the defendant in the execution, the purchaser at the sale, and the date of the sale.

§123. The recorder must file and record with the record of deeds, grants, and transfers, certified copies of final judgments or decrees partitioning or affecting the title or possession of real property, any part of which is situate in the county of which he is recorder.

§124. Every such certified copy of partition, from the time of filing the same with the recorder for record, imparts notice to all persons of the contents thereof; and subsequent purchasers, mortgagees, and lienholders purchase and take with like notice and effect as if such copy of decree was a duly recorded deed, grant or transfer.

§125. The recorder may keep in the same volume any two or more of the indices mentioned in section one hundred and twenty-one; but the several indices must be kept distinct from each other, and the volume distinctly marked on the outside in such a way as to show all the indices kept therein. The names of the parties in the first column in the several indices must be arranged in alphabetical order, and when a conveyance is executed by a sheriff, the name of the sheriff and the party charged in the execution must both be inserted in the index; and when an instrument is recorded to which an executor, administrator, or trustee is a party, the name of such executor, administrator, or trustee, together with the name of the testator, or intestate, or party for whom the trust is held, must be inserted in the index.

$126. When any instrument, paper, or notice, authorized by law to be recorded, is deposited in the recorder's office for record, the recorder must indorse upon the same the time when it was received, noting the year, month, day, hour and minute of its reception, the amount of fees for recording, and must record the same without delay, together with the acknowledgments, proofs, and certificates, written upon or annexed to the same, with the plats, surveys, schedule, and other papers thereto annexed, in the order in which the same were received for record,

and must note at the foot of the record the exact time of its reception, and the name of the person at whose request it was recorded.

§ 127. He must also indorse upon each instrument, paper, or notice the time when, the book and pages in which it is recorded, and must thereafter deliver it to the party leaving the same for record, or upon his order.

§ 128. It shall be the duty of the recorder, upon the payment or tender of the fees therefor, to take and certify the acknowledgment of all instruments authorized by law to be acknowledged.

§ 129. If any recorder to whom an instrument, proved or acknowledged according to law, or any paper or notice which may by law be recorded, is delivered for record:

1. Neglects or refuses to record such instrument, paper, or notice within a reasonable time after receiving the same; or,

2. Records any instrument, paper, or notice, willfully or negligently, untruly, or in any other manner than is herein before directed; or,

3. Neglects or refuses to keep in his office such indices as are required by this article, or to make the proper entries therein; or,

4. Alters, changes, or obliterates any records deposited in his office, or inserts, any new matter therein, he is liable to the party aggrieved for three times the amount of the damages which may be occasioned thereby.

§ 130. He shall not record any instrument, or file any paper or notice, or furnish any copy, or render any service connected with his office, until his fees for the same, as prescribed by law, are, if demanded, paid or tendered.

§ 131. All books of record, maps, charts, surveys, and other papers on file in the recorder's office, must, during office hours, be open for inspection by any person, without charge; and the recorder must arrange the books of record and indices in his office in such suitable places as to facilitate their inspection.

DISTRICT ATTORNEY.

§ 132. The district attorney is the public prosecutor, and must:

1. Attend the courts, and conduct, on behalf of the people, all prosecutions for public offenses.

2. Institute proceedings before the magistrates for the arrest of persons charged with or reasonably suspected of public offenses, when he has information that any such offenses have been committed; and for that purpose, when not engaged in criminal proceedings in the superior court, or in civil cases on behalf of the people, must attend upon the magistrates in cases of arrest, when required by them, and attend before, and give advice to the grand jury, whenever cases are presented to them for their consideration.

3. Draw all indictments and informations, defend all suits brought in his county, against the state or his county wherever brought, prosecute all recognizances forfeited in the courts of record, and all actions for the recovery of debts, fines, penalties and forfeitures accruing to the state or his county.

4. Deliver receipts for money or property received in his official capacity, and file duplicates thereof with the county treasurer.

5. On the first Monday of each month file with the auditor an account, verified by his oath, of all moneys received by him in his official capacity during the preceding month, and at the same time pay them over to the county treasurer.

6. Give, when required, and without fee, his opinion in writing, to county, district, and township officers, on matters relating to the duties of their respective offices.

§133. The district attorney is the legal adviser of the board of supervisors. He must attend their meetings, when required, and must attend and oppose all claims and accounts against the county, when he deems them unjust and illegal.

§ 134. The district attorney, except for his own services, must not present any claim, account or demand for allowance against the county, nor in any way advocate the relief asked on any claim or demand made by another.

COUNTY SURVEYOR.

§ 135. The county surveyor must be a licensed land surveyor of the state, and must make any survey that may be required by order of court or of the board of supervisors, or upon application of any person; keep a correct and fair record of all surveys made by him, number them in the order made, and preserve a copy of the field-notes and calculations of each survey, and indorse thereon its proper number; a copy of the same, and a fair and accurate plat, .together with a certificate of survey, must, upon application, be furnished by him to any person, upon payment of the fees allowed by law.

§ 136. Any person owning or claiming lands which are divided by county lines, and wishing to have the same surveyed, may apply to the surveyor of any county in which any part of such land is situated, and on such application being made, the surveyor must make the survey, which is as valid as though the lands were situated entirely within the county.

§ 137. When land, the title to which is in dispute before any court, is divided by a county line, the court making an order of survey may direct the order to the surveyor of any county in which any part of the land is situated. In all surveys the courses must be expressed according to the true meridian, and the variation of the magnetic meridian from the true meridian must be expressed on the plat, with the date of the survey.

§ 138. Each county surveyor must, when required, aid and assist the surveyor general in making surveys within the county. When the county surveyor is interested in any land, the title to which is in dispute, and a survey thereof is necessary, the court must direct the survey to be made by some disinterested person, and the person so appointed is for that purpose authorized to administer and certify oaths. He must return such survey, verified by his affidavit annexed thereto, and receive for his services the same fees as the county surveyor would be entitled to for similar service.

§ 139. The county surveyor shall copy, plat, or trace all maps filed for record in the office of the county recorder of the county for which he shall be elected, and shall be ex officio deputy county recorder for said county for such purposes, at the cost of the party filing the same for record; provided, however, that all maps and plats filed by a licensed land surveyor, and such other maps and plats as are filed and are thereby made a record, are exempt from the provisions of this act. The county surveyor shall plat, trace, blue-print, or otherwise make all county, township, road, district, and all other maps, and all assessor's block books, for the county of which he is surveyor. All such maps which are platted, traced, blue-printed, or otherwise made as aforesaid, shall be filed in the county surveyor's office, together with all data obtained by the county surveyor from other sources, and the same thereafter shall become the property of the county.

§ 140. The county surveyor shall make such surveys of county roads, and perform such other engineering work as the board of supervisors may direct. All such maps and field-notes of surveys shall be filed in the office of the county surveyor, and the same shall thereafter be and remain the property of the county. It shall be the duty of the county surveyor to advise the board of supervisors regarding all engineering work, and to perform such engineering work for the county as may be required by the board of supervisors.

§ 141. The board of supervisors of each county shall provide, for the use of the county surveyor, a suitable office, office furniture, heat, light, and care for the same, office and record books, and other necessary material, also all necessary expenses and transportation on work performed in the field. In lieu of fees, as now provided by law, the county sur veyor shall receive such compensation as the board of supervisors may allow, not to exceed ten dollars per day for all work performed for the county, and in addition thereto, all necessary expenses and transportation on work performed in the field.

COUNTY CORONER.

§ 142. The coroner must hold inquests as prescribed by chapter II, Title XII, Part II, of the Penal Code. The coroner, or other officer holding the inquest upon the body of a deceased person, may subpoena a chemist to make an analysis of the contents of the stomach or of the

tissues of the body, or a physician or surgeon to inspect the body, or hold a post mortem examination of the deceased, and give a professional opinion as to the cause of death, and shall cause the testimony given by the witness to be reduced to writing, under his direction, and may, upon the written order of the district attorney, employ a clerk or stenog. rapher for such purpose, at the same compensation allowed to stenographers in the superior court of the county; and when such testimony is taken down by a stenographer, his transcription thereof, duly certified to, shall constitute the deposition of such witness.

§ 143. When an inquest is held by the coroner, and no other person takes charge of the body of deceased, he must cause it to be decently interred; and if there is not sufficient property belonging to the estate of the deceased to pay the necessary expenses of the burial, the expenses are a legal charge against the county.

§ 144. It shall be the duty of the coroner of each county to keep an official register, to be labeled "Coroner's Register," in which he shall enter the date of holding all inquests, the name of the deceased, when known, and when not, such description of the deceased as may be sufficient for identification; property found on the person of deceased, if any; what disposition was made of the same by the coroner; the cause of death, when known, and such other information as may pertain to the identity of the deceased.

§ 145. The coroner must, within thirty days after an inquest upon a dead body, deliver to the county treasurer, or the legal representatives of the deceased, any money or other property found upon the body, and at the same time file an affidavit with the treasurer, showing:

1. The amount of money or other property belonging to the estate of the deceased person which has come into his possession since his last statement.

2. The disposition made of such property.

3. If the coroner, or any justice of the peace acting as coroner, fail to deliver to the treasurer, within thirty days after any inquest upon a dead body, all money and property found upon such body, unless claimed in the mean time by the public administrator, or other legal representa tive of the decedent, as required by this section, the district attorney must proceed against the coroner or justice of the peace acting as coroner, to recover the same, by civil action, in the name of the county.

§ 146. If the office of coroner is vacant, or he is absent, or unable to attend, the duties of his office may be discharged by any justice of the peace of the county, with the like authority, and subject to the same obligations and penalties as the coroner.

§ 147. In the cases specified in section one hundred and four, the coroner must discharge the duties of sheriff.

§ 148. The assessor must perform such duties as are prescribed in Title IX, Part III, of the Political Code, and such other duties as are