ARTICLE XLVI. COUNTIES OF THE FORTY-SIXTH CLASS. § 4275. SALARIES AND FEES OF OFFICERS OF. In counties of the forty-sixth class the county officers shall receive, as compensation for the services required of them by law or by virtue of their office, the following salaries, to wit: (a) The county clerk, two thousand five hundred dollars per annum; provided, that in counties of this class there shall be and there is hereby allowed to the county clerk one deputy who shall receive a salary of one thousand dollars per annum, and one deputy who shall receive a salary of eight hundred dollars per annum; the deputies herein provided for shall be appointed by the county clerk, and their salaries shall be paid by said county in equal monthly installments at the same time and in the same manner and out of the same funds as the salary of the county clerk is paid. All fees collected by the clerk as are now or may hereafter be required by law shall by him be paid into the county treasury. (b) The sheriff, five thousand dollars per annum, and the fees or commissions for the service of all papers issued by any court of the state outside of his county; also, his actual and necessary traveling expenses in the execution of a warrant outside of his county issued by a court or magistrate of his county. (c) The recorder, one thousand four hundred forty dollars per annum, and, in addition thereto, all fees which said recorder is now or may hereafter be entitled to receive as such recorder, or which are now or may hereafter be required by law to be collected by said recorder. (d) The auditor, one thousand five hundred dollars per annum. (e) The treasurer, two thousand four hundred dollars per annum; provided, that all commissions and fees required or permitted by any law of this state or of the United States to be collected by the treasurer either as an officer or ex officio officer, his deputies or assistants, for the performance of any official duty, shall be collected for the benefit of the county and shall be paid into the general fund of the county monthly. (f) The tax-collector, one thousand five hundred dollars per annum. (g) The assessor, four thousand dollars per annum; provided, that said assessor shall be entitled to receive and retain for his own use four per cent only on personal property tax collected by him as authorized by section three thousand eight hundred twenty of the Political Code of the State of California. (h) The district attorney, three thousand dollars per annum; provided, that said officer shall refrain from the private practice of law; provided, further, that in counties of this class, there shall be and is hereby allowed to the district attorney a stenographer or office clerk, to be appointed by the district attorney, who shall receive a salary of six hundred dollars per annum, to be paid in equal monthly installments, at the same time, in the same manner and out of the same funds as the salary of the district attorney is paid. (i) The coroner, such fees as are now or may be hereafter allowed by law. (j) The public administrator[,] such fees as are now or may be hereafter allowed by law. (k) The superintendent of schools, two thousand seven hundred dollars per annum and traveling expenses while visiting schools of his county; and for services as secretary of the board of education he shall receive five dollars per day for each day said board is in session. (1) The surveyor, such fees as are now or may be hereafter allowed by law. (m) Justices of the peace shall receive the following monthly salaries, to be paid each month, and in the same manner and out of the same fund as county officers are paid, which shall be in full for all services rendered by them in criminal cases: In townships having a population of more than nine hundred, seventy-five dollars per month; in townships having a population less than nine hundred and more than five hun dred, fifty dollars per month; in townships having a population less than five hundred, twenty dollars per month. (n) Constables shall receive the following monthly salaries to be paid each month, and in the same manner and out of the same fund as county officers are paid, which shall be in full for all services rendered by them in criminal cases: In townships having a population of more than nine hundred, seventy-five dollars per month; in townships having a population of less than nine hundred and more than five hundred, fifty dollars per month; in townships having a population of less than five hundred, twenty dollars per month; provided, that each constable shall receive his actual and necessary expenses incurred in conveying prisoners to the county jail. In addition to the compensation received in criminal cases each constable shall receive and retain for his own use such fees as are now or may be hereafter allowed by law for all services performed by him in civil actions. (0) Supervisors[,] the sum of one hundred twenty-five dollars per month each; mileage at the rate of ten cents per mile for each mile actually traveled by them in the discharge of their duties either as road commissioner or supervisor, not exceeding in the aggregate two hundred fifty dollars per annum. Supervisors shall also receive their necessary expenses when the performance of duty as supervisor or road commissioner takes them out of the county. (p) The official reporters, same as now provided by law. (q) [Jurors.] In counties of this class grand jurors and trial jurors in the superior court shall receive for each day's attendance the sum of three dollars, and for each mile actually and necessarily traveled from their residence to the county seat, the sum of fifteen cents; such mileage to be allowed but once during each session such jurors are required to attend. (r) [Effect of act. In effect, when.] It is hereby declared that nothing herein contained constitutes an increase in compensation of any of the officials mentioned herein and this act shall take effect in accordance with the provisions of section one of article four of the constitution. History: Former section, providing when county surveyor is interested in lands, court to appoint some other person, repealed and present section enacted March 18, 1907, Stats. and Amdts. 1907, p. 530, Kerr's Stats. and Amdts. 1906-7, p. 368; amended March 25, 1909, Stats. and Amdts. 1909, p. 730; February 28, 1911, Stats. and Amdts. 1911, p. 236, and again amended April 17, 1911, Stats. and Amdts. 1911, p. 938 (which amendment is given in Biennial Supplement 1911 as § 4275[a]); amendment approved June 16, 1913, does not indicate whether it is the Act of February 28, or April 17, 1911, which it is intended to amend, Stats. and Amdts. 1913, p. 1363; amended May 19, 1915, Stats. and Amdts. 1915, p. 599; June 1, 1917, Stats. and Amdts. 1917, p. 1605. In effect July 31, 1917. ARTICLE XLVII. COUNTIES OF THE FORTY-SEVENTH CLASS. § 4276. SALARIES AND FEES OF OFFICERS OF. In counties of the forty-seventh class, the county officers shall receive as compensation for the services required of them by law, or by virtue of their office, the following salaries, to wit: 1. The county clerk, one thousand five hundred dollars per annum; provided, that in counties of this class, there shall be a deputy county clerk, who shall be appointed by the county clerk, whose salary shall be, per annum, a sum not to exceed nine hundred dollars; which salary shall be fixed by said county clerk, and which said salary shall be paid by said county at the time and in the same manner and out of the same fund as the salary of the county clerk. 2. The sheriff, five thousand dollars per annum and mileage for service of any and all processes required by law to be served by him, at the rate of ten cents per mile for every mile necessarily traveled in the performance of such duty, and for service of all processes issued from all courts outside of his county; the sheriff to pay all salaries of his deputies. 3. The recorder, one thousand six hundred dollars per annum; provided, that such recorder shall collect and pay into the county treasury, for the use and benefit of the county, the fees required by law. 4. The auditor, one thousand five hundred dollars per annum. 5. The treasurer, one thousand five hundred dollars per annum. 6. The tax-collector, one thousand five hundred dollars per annum. 7. The assessor, two thousand one hundred dollars per annum. 8. The district attorney, two thousand one hundred dollars per annum. 9. The coroner, such fees as are now or may be hereafter allowed by law. 10. The public administrator, such fees as are now or may be hereafter allowed by law. 11. The superintendent of schools, one thousand five hundred dollars per annum. 12. The surveyor, such fees as are now or may be hereafter allowed by law. 13. Justices of the peace shall receive the following monthly salaries, to be paid each month as salaries of county officers are paid, which shall be in full compensation for all services rendered, as hereinafter provided: In townships having a population of three thousand or more, fifty dollars per month, which said salary shall be in full compensation for all services rendered by said justices of the peace in both civil and criminal cases, and all such fees as are allowed by law in civil cases shall be paid by said justices of the peace into the county treasury, as the fees of county officers are paid in. In townships having a population under three thousand, twenty-five dollars per month, which shall be in full compensation for all services rendered in criminal cases. In addition to the above salary, each justice of the peace shall collect and retain for his own use and benefit in civil cases, such fees as are now or may hereafter be allowed by law. In townships having a population of not less than one thousand and under two thousand, twenty dollars per month, which shall be in full compensation for all services rendered in criminal cases. In addition to the above salary, each justice of the peace shall collect and retain for his own use and benefit in civil cases such fees as are now or may be hereafter allowed by law. In townships having a population of less than one thousand, fifteen dollars per month, which shall be in full compensation for all services rendered in criminal cases. In addition to the above salary each justice of the peace shall collect and retain for his own use and benefit in civil cases, such fees as are now or may be hereafter allowed by law. 14. Constables, such fees as are now or may be hereafter allowed by law. 15. [Supervisors.] Each member of the board of supervisors, six hundred dollars per annum; thirty cents per mile one way in attending the meetings of the board. Three dollars per day when actually serving as road commissioner, not to exceed three hundred dollars per annum. 16. [Reporter.] In counties of this class, the official reporter of the superior court shall receive, as full compensation for taking notes in criminal cases in said court, before the grand jury, for preliminary examinations, and for coroners' inquests, a monthly salary of seventy-five dollars, payable out of the county treasury at the same time and in the same manner as the salaries of the county officers are paid, and shall receive as compensation for taking notes, when required, in civil cases a per diem of ten dollars, to be paid by the litigants as the court may direct; and for transcription of said notes, when required, the sum of fifteen cents per folio for the original, and five cents per folio for each copy thereof; said compensation for transcription in criminal cases and coroners' inquests to be audited and allowed by the board of supervisors as other claims against the county, and paid out of the county treasury; and in civil cases to be paid by the party ordering the same, or when ordered by the judge, by either party, or by both or all parties, as the court may direct. He shall also be allowed his actual traveling expenses when reporting outside the county seat. 17. [Population of townships.] The board of supervisors shall determine the population of each township for the purpose of fixing the salary of the township officers aforesaid. History: Enacted March 18, 1907, Stats. and Amdts. 1907, p. 532, Kerr's Stats. and Amdts. 1906-7, p. 369; amended March 13, 1909, Stats. and Amdts. 1909, p. 306; February 28, 1911, Stats. and Amdts. 1911, p. 337, and amended again April 27, 1911, Stats. and Amdts. 1911, p. 117 (which amendment is given in Biennial Supplement 1911 as § 4276[a]); amendment approved June 16, 1913, fails to indicate whether the Act of February 28, or that of April 27, 1911, was the one intended to be amended, Stats. and Amdts. 1913, p. 1194; amended June 9, 1915, Stats. and Amdts. 1915, p. 1383; May 28, 1917, Stats. and Amdts. 1917, p. 1107. In effect July 27, 1917. § 4276a. FEES OF JURORS AND WITNESSES. In counties of the fortyseventh class, jurors and witnesses shall receive the following fees and mileage: Jurors. For attending as a grand juror, for each day's actual attendance, per day, three dollars, and twenty cents per mile for each mile actually traveled, in going only; for attending as a trial juror in the superior court in civil and criminal cases, for each day's actual attendance, per day, three dollars, and twenty cents per mile for each mile actually traveled, in going only; for attending as a trial juror in the justice's court, in civil cases only, for each day's actual attendance, per day, two dollars, and twenty cents per mile for each mile actually traveled, in going only. jurors shall be paid to them, respectively, on each day during the attendance, if demanded, and the mileage herein provided for shall time the fee for the first day's attendance is paid. The fee of such period of their be paid at the Witnesses. For each day's actual attendance when legally required to attend upon the superior court, per day, three dollars, and twenty cents per mile for each mile actually traveled, in going only; and for each day's actual attendance when legally required to attend upon the justice's court, in civil cases only, per day, two dollars, and twenty cents per mile for each mile actually traveled, in going only. Witnesses in criminal cases shall be paid their fees and mileage, as in this section provided, immediately upon their being discharged by the court. Witnesses in civil cases may demand the payment of their fees and mileage for one day, in advance, and when so demanded shall not be compelled to attend until the same shall have been paid. History: Enacted May 28, 1917, Stats. and Amdts. 1917, p. 1109. ARTICLE XLVIII. COUNTIES OF THE FORTY-EIGHTH CLASS. § 4277. SALARIES AND FEES OF OFFICERS OF. In counties of the forty-eighth class the county officers shall receive, as compensation for the services required of them by law or by virtue of their offices, the following compensation and salaries, to wit: 1. The county clerk, two thousand dollars per annum. 2. The sheriff, three thousand five hundred dollars per annum, and actual traveling expenses incurred in the pursuit or arrest of criminals, either in or out of his county. 3. The recorder, one thousand five hundred dollars per annum; and the said recorder may appoint one deputy recorder, which said office of deputy recorder is hereby created. The salary of such deputy recorder is hereby fixed at one thousand dollars per annum, such salary to be paid at the same time and in the same manner as the salary of county officers is paid. 4. The auditor, five hundred dollars per annum. 5. The treasurer, one thousand two hundred dollars per annum. 6. The tax-collector, eight hundred dollars per annum, which shall be in full for all services as tax-collector and license-collector; provided, that in counties of this class there shall be one deputy tax-collector who shall be appointed by the tax-collector of said county, and shall receive a salary of nine hundred dollars per annum, payable at the same time and in the same manner as the salary of the county officers is paid. 7. The assessor, one thousand eight hundred dollars per annum; provided, that in counties of this class there shall be one chief deputy assessor and one deputy assessor, who shall be appointed by the assessor of said county. Said deputy assessor shall serve as such only during the months of March, April, May and June of each year and shall receive a salary of one hundred dollars per month, payable during the period of such service, and said chief deputy assessor shall receive a salary of one thousand two hundred dollars per year, such salaries to be payable at the same time and in the same manner as the salary of the county officers is paid. 8. The district attorney, one thousand five hundred dollars per annum. 9. The coroner, five hundred dollars per annum, and his actual traveling and other expenses while performing the duties of his office. 10. The public administrator, such fees as are now or may be hereafter allowed by law. 11. The superintendent of schools, one thousand six hundred dollars per annum, and actual traveling expenses when visiting the schools of his county. 12. The surveyor, nine hundred dollars per annum, and in addition thereto, he shall receive his actual traveling and other necessary expenses incurred by him while engaged in work for the county. 13. [Supervisors.] Each supervisor, fifty dollars per month, payable at the same time and in the same manner as other county officers are paid, and his necessary and actual expenses when attending to the business of the county by order of the board, and mileage at the rate of twenty cents per mile for traveling from his residence to the county seat to attend the sessions of the board, and mileage at the rate of twenty cents per mile one way for all actual distances traveled by him in the performance of his duties as road commissioner. 14. [Classification of townships.] In counties of this class the township officers shall receive the following compensation: For the purpose of fixing the compensation of justices of the peace and constables according to their duties townships in counties of this class are hereby classified according to their population as follows: Townships having a population of two thousand four hundred or more shall belong to and be known as townships of the first class. Townships having a population of more than one thousand two hundred and less than two thousand four hundred shall belong to and be known as townships of the second class. Townships having a population of less than one thousand two hundred shall belong to and be known as townships of the third class. Justices of the peace shall receive the following salaries: In townships of the first class forty dollars per month; in townships of the second class twenty dollars per month, and in townships of the third class fifteen dollars per month. Such salaries shall be paid in the same manner and out of the same fund as salaries of county officers are paid, and shall be compensation in full for all services rendered. All fees received by justices of the peace shall be paid into the county treasury every month. 15. Constables shall receive the following monthly salaries, payable at the same time and in the same manner as county officers are paid, which shall be in full for all services rendered by them in criminal actions: In townships of the first class thirty dollars per month; in townships of the second class fifteen dollars per month; in townships of the third class fifteen dollars per month; provided, that in addition to the salary herein allowed each constable shall be paid out of the treasury of the county for traveling expenses outside of his township for service of a warrant of arrest or any other paper in a criminal case such fees as are now or may be hereafter allowed by law, and for transporting prisoners to the county jail the actual expenses for such transportation, and his actual and necessary expenses in keeping and caring for property seized by him under a writ of attachment or execution; and provided, further, that constables may retain for their own use, the fees which are now or may be hereafter allowed to them in civil cases. 16. For the purposes of sections fourteen and fifteen, the population of the several townships shall be ascertained by multiplying by two and one-half the number of |