at the close of each month all fees received by him during the month, accompanied by a statement of sources from whence received.

2. The sheriff, six thousand dollars per annum and all fees for the service of process issued without his county. He shall have an undersheriff at a salary of one thousand eight hundred dollars per annum; one field deputy at a salary of one thousand eight hundred dollars per annum, and two field deputies at a salary of one thousand five hundred dollars per annum each; one office deputy who shall have charge of the records made under the Bertillon system and who shall act as photographer and who shall receive a salary of one thousand five hundred dollars per annum; five deputies whose salaries shall be one thousand two hundred dollars per annum each; a stenographer at a salary of one thousand two hundred dollars per annum; and a jailer at a salary of one thousand five hundred dollars per annum. The sheriff shall pay into the county treasury all sums received by him for service of processes issued within the county.

3. The recorder, two thousand seven hundred dollars per annum up to and until the first Monday in January, 1919, after which time he shall receive a salary of three thousand dollars per annum. He shall have two deputies at a salary of one thousand eight hundred dollars each per annum and two deputies at salaries of one thousand five hundred dollars each per annum; a statistician for compiling the vital statistics of the county at a salary of one thousand five hundred dollars per annum and an abstract clerk at a salary of one thousand five hundred dollars per annum; and one deputy for not to exceed six months in each year at a salary of one hundred dollars per month. The recorder shall have such copyists as are necessary to perform the duties of the office at a compensation of six cents per folio.

4. The auditor, two thousand seven hundred dollars per annum up to and until the first Monday in January, 1919, after which time he shall receive a salary of three thousand dollars per annum. He shall have one deputy at a salary of one thousand eight hundred dollars per annum and one deputy at a salary of one thousand five hundred dollars per annum; a redemption clerk at a salary of one thousand five hundred dollars per annum; an additional deputy to act as bookkeeper at a salary of one thousand five hundred dollars per annum and three deputies for not to exceed one hundred twenty days in each year at a salary of four dollars per day each who shall make segregation of road district values and perform such other service as required by law.

5. The treasurer, two thousand seven hundred dollars per annum up to and until the first Monday in January, 1919, after which time he shall receive a salary of three thousand dollars per annum. He shall have one deputy at a salary of one thousand eight hundred dollars per annum, one additional deputy who shall act as bookkeeper at a salary of one thousand five hundred dollars per annum, and one deputy at a salary of one thousand two hundred dollars per annum.

6. The tax-collector, two thousand seven hundred dollars per annum up to and until the first Monday in January, 1919, after which time he shall receive three thousand dollars per annum. He shall have one deputy who shall act as cashier at a salary of one thousand eight hundred dollars per annum; one deputy who shall act as assistant cashier and tax sale clerk at a salary of one thousand eight hundred dollars per annum; one deputy at a salary of one thousand five hundred dollars per annum; one deputy at a salary of one thousand two hundred dollars per annum; one deputy who shall act as bookkeeper at a salary of one thousand eight hundred dollars per annum; and one deputy who shall act as stenographer and assistant bookkeeper at a salary of one thousand two hundred dollars per annum, and eight additional deputies for not to exceed three months in each year at salaries of one hundred dollars per month each. 7. The assessor shall receive four thousand dollars per annum for all services rendered as assessor. He shall have one deputy at a salary of one thousand eight hundred dollars per annum; one draughtsman at a salary of one thousand five hundred dollars per annum and one real estate transfer deputy at a salary of one thousand two hundred dollars per annum. He shall also have one stenographer at a salary of nine hundred dollars per annum. He shall also have three field deputies for a period not

to exceed three months each year at salaries of six dollars per day each when actually employed; twenty-two field deputies for a period not to exceed three months each year at salaries of five dollars per day each when actually employed; eight deputies for a period not to exceed six months each year at salaries of four dollars per day each, and five copyists for a period not to exceed six months each year at salaries of three dollars per day each when actually employed. All sums collected by the assessor or his deputies as personal property taxes shall be paid into the county treasury monthly as collected, with a statement of account of such collections.

8. [Jurors.] In counties of this class grand and trial jurors shall receive three dollars per day while engaged in the performance of the duties required of them, and in addition thereto shall receive the mileage now allowed by law.

9. The district attorney, three thousand six hundred dollars per annum. He shall have one assistant at a salary of two thousand four hundred dollars per annum; two deputies at salaries of one thousand eight hundred dollars per annum each; one deputy at a salary of one thousand five hundred dollars per annum; a detective at a salary of one hundred ten dollars per month; one stenographer at a salary of one hundred dollars per month and one stenographer at a salary of eighty-five dollars per month. Neither of these stenographers shall receive other compensation for reason of services as stenographic reporter in any action or proceeding wherein the fee or per diem of the stenographic reporter constitutes a charge against the county.

10. The coroner, such fees as are now or may hereafter be allowed by law.

11. The public administrator, such fees as are now or may hereafter be allowed by law.

12. Superintendent of schools, two thousand seven hundred dollars per annum up to and including the first Monday in January, 1919, after which time he shall receive a salary of three thousand dollars per annum. He shall have three supervising assistants at salaries of one thousand eight hundred dollars per annum each; one deputy at a salary of one thousand eight hundred dollars per annum; one deputy at a salary of one thousand five hundred dollars per annum and one stenographer at a salary of nine hundred dollars per annum. The superintendent and his supervising assistants shall be allowed their actual traveling expenses incurred while visiting schools in the county.

13. The surveyor, two thousand dollars per annum up to and until the first Monday in January, 1919, after which time he shall receive a salary of three thousand dollars per annum in full compensation for all services as county surveyor, as road viewer or inspector, and shall receive his actual and necessary expenses when at work in the field. He shall have one field deputy at a salary of one thousand eight hundred dollars per annum; one deputy at a salary of one thousand five hundred dollars per annum. After the first Monday in January, 1919, the surveyor and his deputies shall devote their entire time and service to the work of the county, and are prohibited from engaging in private surveying and engineering work, and shall do all surveying and engineering work for the county, including the preparation of plans and specifications for the construction of bridges.

14. [Population of townships.] The registered population of the several judicial townships of this county is hereby determined to be the registered votes as shown by the great register of the county in the office of the county clerk January first, one thousand nine hundred fifteen, as follows, to wit:

[Classification of townships.] And for the purpose of regulating the compensation of the constables and justices of the peace, townships of this class of counties are hereby classified as follows: Townships having a registered voting population of ten thousand and more shall belong to and be known as townships of the first class; townships having a like population of one thousand four hundred fifty and less than ten thousand shall belong to and be known as townships of the second class; townships having a like population of six hundred and less than one thousand four hundred fifty shall belong to and be known as townships of the third class; townships having a like population of less than six hundred shall belong to and be known as townships of the fourth class.

15. Justices of the peace, and persons now performing the duties of justices of the peace, shall receive the following monthly salaries, to be paid each month as the county officers are paid, and the same shall be in full compensation for all services rendered and shall include their office rent, except as otherwise provided by law, to wit: In townships of the first class, two hundred dollars; in townships of the second class, eighty-five dollars; in townships of the third class, seventy dollars; in townships of the fourth class, fifty dollars.

Justices of the peace shall pay to the county treasurer once a month all fees and fines collected by them, and shall be responsible for the collection and payment to the county treasurer of all such fees and fines as herein provided.

16. Constables shall receive the following monthly salaries, to be paid each month as the county officers are paid, and to be in full compensation for all services rendered by them in criminal cases, to wit: In townships of the first class, one hundred dollars; in townships of the second class, seventy-five dollars; in townships of the third class, sixty dollars; in townships of the fourth class, fifty dollars.

In addition to the monthly salaries above provided, each constable may receive and retain for his own use such fees as are now or may hereafter be allowed by law for all services rendered by him in civil cases, and shall also be allowed all necessary expenses actually incurred in arresting and conveying prisoners to court or prison, which expenses shall be audited by the board of supervisors and paid out of the county treasury.

17. The supervisors shall receive each the sum of one thousand eight hundred dollars per annum, payable monthly in installments of one hundred fifty dollars per month, in full compensation for all services rendered, either as supervisors or road overseers. 18. [Monthly payment.] The salaries of all county and township officers and their deputies shall be payable in installments monthly on the first day of each month.

19. [Salaries for all services.] Beginning with the first Monday in January, 1919, officers of the counties of the fifth class shall receive for all services required of them by law only such salaries as are herein provided, and beginning with, and after the first Monday in January, 1919, all county officers of the fifth class shall pay over to the county treasurer, at the close of each and every month, all fees and commissions heretofore retained by them together with a statement of sources from whence received.

History: Former section, making it the duty of the recorder to procure record books, repealed and present section enacted March 18, 1907, Stats. and Amdts. 1907, p. 439, Kerr's Stats. and Amdts. 1906-7, p. 280; amended March 20, 1909, Stats. and Amdts. 1909, p. 568; February 28, 1911, Stats. and Amdts. 1911, p. 129, amended again on April 5, 1911 (which amendment is given in Biennial Supplement 1911, as § 4234 [a]); amended without indication whether the Act of February, 1911, or that of April 5, 1911, was the act intended to be amended by Act approved June 16, 1913, Stats. and Amdts. 1913, p. 1253; May 4, 1915, Stats. and Amdts. 1915, p. 353; May 28, 1917, Stats. and Amdts. 1917, p. 1144. In effect July 27, 1917.

§ 4235.

1. Construction (subd. 1). The fact that this section was amended two days after the approval of the Game License Act, by increasing the compensation and number of deputies of county clerks in the class of

counties to which Sacramento belonged, does not necessitate the conclusion that this increase was designed to pay for the added service required in issuing hunting licenses. -City of Sacramento v. Pfund, 165 Cal. 84, 130 Pac. 1041.

ARTICLE VII.

COUNTIES OF THE SEVENTH CLASS.

§ 4236. SALARIES AND FEES OF OFFICERS OF. In counties of the seventh class the county and township officers shall receive as full compensation for the services required of them by law, or by virtue of their office the following salaries: 1. The county clerk, three thousand six hundred dollars per annum; provided, that in counties of this class there shall be and there hereby is allowed to the county clerk one chief deputy who shall receive a salary of one thousand eight hundred dollars per annum; one registration clerk who shall receive a salary of one thousand six hundred eighty dollars per annum; four court clerks who shall receive salaries of one thousand five hundred dollars each per annum; one deputy who shall receive a salary of one thousand three hundred fifty dollars per annum; one index clerk who shall receive a salary of one thousand two hundred dollars per annum; one stenographer who shall receive a salary of one thousand twenty dollars per annum; two copyists who shall receive salaries of one thousand twenty dollars each per annum; and a deputy or deputies, not to exceed five, for the purpose of registering electors, to be paid not to exceed three dollars per diem each; provided, that said deputies so employed for registering electors shall not be employed except during a year when a general election is to be held throughout the state, and then only between the first day of May and the fifteenth day of November of said year, and not more than one deputy for each precinct for the purpose of registering electors in precincts outside of the corporate limits of municipalities containing twenty-five thousand or more inhabitants during said year of the general election, who shall be paid ten cents per name for each person legally registered by them, the salaries and compensations of each of said deputies and clerks to be paid out of the county treasury in equal monthly installments in the same manner and at the same time as the other county officials are paid.

2. The sheriff, three thousand six hundred dollars per annum; provided, that in counties of this class there shall be and there hereby is allowed to the sheriff one undersheriff, whose salary is hereby fixed at the sum of one thousand eight hundred dollars per annum, and the following deputies and employees: One deputy who shall be head jailer, and who shall receive the salary of one thousand five hundred dollars per annum; one deputy who shall receive a salary of one thousand two hundred dollars per annum; one deputy who shall receive a salary of nine hundred dollars per annum; two service deputies who shall receive a salary of one thousand five hundred dollars each per annum; five deputies who shall receive salaries of one thousand two hundred dollars each, per annum; one stenographer who shall receive a salary of nine hundred dollars per annum; one bookkeeper who shall receive a salary of one thousand two hundred dollars per annum; six deputies who shall be turnkeys at the jail, whose salaries shall be one thousand twenty dollars each, per annum, but no more turnkeys are to be employed than are absolutely necessary to handle the requirements of the jail; and three deputies who shall be known as country deputies, who shall receive salaries of one thousand two hundred dollars each per annum. In counties of this class there shall be a matron of the county jail, to be appointed by the sheriff, and who, under the direction of the sheriff, shall have charge of all female prisoners in the county jail, and who shall receive a salary of nine hundred dollars per annum, to be paid by the county in monthly installments at the same time, in the same manner, and out of the same fund as is the salary of the sheriff. In counties of this class the sheriff shall be allowed by the board of supervisors his actual necessary expenses for

pursuing criminals, or for transacting of criminal business, and his actual necessary expenses for service of all process and notices, and each and all such expenses shall be a charge against the county and allowed by the board of supervisors, and paid as other county charges are paid. In counties of this class the sheriff shall not be allowed to retain for his own use any fees or mileage for the service of any process issued out of any court of this county but such fees and mileage when collected shall be paid into the county treasury.

3. The recorder, three thousand six hundred dollars per annum; provided, that in counties of this class there shall be and there is hereby allowed the recorder the following deputies and copyists who shall be appointed by the recorder of said county, and shall be paid as follows: One chief deputy who shall receive one thousand eight hundred dollars per annum; one index deputy who shall receive a salary of one thousand three hundred fifty dollars per annum; one assistant index clerk who shall receive a salary of one thousand two hundred dollars per annum; one chief filing clerk who shall act as deputy registrar who shall receive a salary of one thousand five hundred dollars per annum; one assistant filing clerk who shall receive a salary of one thousand twenty dollars per annum; one compilation clerk who shall receive a salary of one thousand twenty dollars per annum; and as many copyists as may be required, who shall receive as compensation the sum of five cents per folio for recording all instruments or notices except maps and plats, and for copies of any records, five cents per folio.

4. The auditor, three thousand six hundred dollars per annum; provided, that there is hereby allowed to the auditor the following deputies: One chief deputy who shall receive a salary of one thousand nine hundred fifty dollars per annum; one deputy who shall receive a salary of one thousand six hundred eighty dollars per annum; one deputy who shall receive a salary of one thousand three hundred fifty dollars per annum; one deputy who shall receive a salary of nine hundred dollars per annum; five additional deputies at a salary of four dollars per day each, for each day employed for a period not to exceed one hundred fifty-six days in any one year.

5. The treasurer, three thousand six hundred dollars per annum; provided, that in counties of this class there shall be and there hereby is allowed to the treasurer, the following deputies, who shall be appointed by the treasurer and shall receive salaries as follows: One deputy who shall receive a salary of two thousand one hundred dollars per annum. The salary of the treasurer hereinabove provided shall be in full compensation for all services rendered, and the fees heretofore chargeable and collected by him for returning to the state the collateral inheritance tax and for the performance of his official duties in connection therewith shall be paid into the county treasury and be the property of said county; and said treasurer shall receive no fees, compensation or commissions of any kind or character for any service rendered by him in connection with said collateral inheritance tax.

6. The tax-collector, three thousand six hundred dollars per annum and such fees as are allowed by law; one chief deputy who shall receive a salary of two thousand one hundred dollars per annum; two deputies who shall receive salaries of one thousand three hundred fifty dollars each, per annum; two deputies who shall receive salaries of one thousand two hundred dollars each, per annum; a stenographer who shall receive a salary of one thousand twenty dollars per annum; nine additional clerks at a salary of four dollars per day each, for each day employed, for a period not to exceed one hundred fifty-six days in any one year.

7. The assessor, three thousand six hundred dollars per annum, and traveling expenses incurred in the discharge of his official duties not exceeding three hundred sixty dollars per annum; provided, that in counties of this class there shall be, and there hereby is allowed to the assessor, one chief deputy who shall receive a salary of one thousand eight hundred dollars per annum; one deputy who shall receive a salary of one thousand six hundred fifty dollars per annum; one deputy who shall receive a salary of one thousand three hundred fifty dollars per annum; two deputies for a period not exceeding six months in any one year at salaries of one hundred dollars per month each; one deputy for a period not exceeding five months in any one year