fifth class. Counties of created, who shall receive as compensation for his services the sum of fifteen hundred dollars per annum, to be paid out of the county treasury in equal monthly installments in the same manner and at the same time other county officials are paid. In counties of this class the district attorney may appoint a clerk for service in his office, which office of clerk to the district attorney is hereby created, and said clerk shall receive as compensation for his service the sum of nine hundred dollars per annum, to be paid out of the county treasury in equal monthly installments, in the same manner and at the same time other county officials are paid. Coroner. 10. The coroner, such fees as are now or may be hereafter allowed by law; provided, the coroner, or other officer holding an 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 of all the witnesses at such inquest to be reduced to writing under his directions, and may require one of the official reporters to act as clerk or stenographer for such purpose, and in case any of such reporters should refuse or be unable to attend, may employ a stenographer for that purpose at the same compensation allowed to stenographers of the superior court of the county, such amount to be deducted from the salary of the official reporter in default. Public administrator. Superin schools. 11. The public administrator, such fees as are now or may be hereafter allowed by law. 12. The superintendent of schools, two thousand dollars per tendent of annum, and actual traveling expenses when visiting schools of his county, not exceeding three hundred dollars per annum. Each member of the board of education shall receive five dollars per day as compensation for his services when in actual attendance upon said board, and mileage at the rate of twenty cents per mile, one way only, from his residence to the place of meeting of said board. The secretary of said board of education shall receive five dollars per day for his services for the actual time that the board may be in session. Said compensation of the members of said board and of said secretary shall be paid out of the same fund as the salary of the superintendent of schools. Claims of such service and mileage shall be presented to the board of supervisors and shall be allowed at the rate above named, and in the same manner as other claims against the county are allowed. The compensation of the members of the county board of education herein provided is not in addition to that provided in section seventeen hundred and seventy of the Political Code. 13. The surveyor, two thousand four hundred dollars per annum, and in addition thereto all necessary expenses and transportation for work performed on the field; provided, that in counties of this class, whenever the board of supervisors shall order, or the assessor may require, assessor's map or Surveyor. fifth class. block books, then the surveyor shall receive, in addition to Counties of the salary herein above noted, the sum of nine hundred dollars for the preparation and completion of the said map or block books. the peace. 14. Justices of the peace, such fees are now or may be here- Justices of after allowed by law, except that the justices of the peace in townships containing twenty thousand or more inhabitants shall be allowed a salary of one hundred dollars per month in lieu of all fees in criminal cases, payable as the salaries of other county officers are paid. stables. 15. Constables, such fees are now or may be hereafter be conallowed by law, except that the constables in townships containing twenty thousand or more inhabitants shall be allowed a salary of one hundred dollars per month each for all services in criminal cases, payable as the salaries of other county officers are paid; provided, however, that constables in townships not having twenty thousand inhabitants, shall receive, in addition to the fees now provided by law three dollars per day for each day actually in attendance on court in criminal cases, and fifteen cents per mile for every mile actually traveled in taking prisoners to the county jail. visors. 16. Each supervisor, seventy-five dollars per month, and ten supercents per mile for traveling to and from the county seat; provided, mileage shall not be allowed oftener than once in each month. 17. From and after the first Monday in January, nineteen hundred and three, the offices of recorder and auditor shall be separate and shall not be consolidated by the board of supervisors. CHAPTER CXCVII. An act to amend section one hundred and seventy (170) of an act entitled "An act to establish a uniform system of county and township governments" approved April 1, 1897, and the acts amendatory thereof; relating to the compensation of county and township officers of counties of the thirteenth class. [Approved March 19, 1903.] The people of the State of California, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. Section one hundred and seventy (170) of an act entitled "An act to establish a uniform system of county and township governments" approved April first, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, and amended March 23d, 1901, is hereby amended to read as follows: thirteenth Section 170. In counties of the thirteenth class the county Counties of and township officers shall receive, as full compensation for class. the services required of them by law or by virtue of their offices, the following fees and salaries: Counties of 1. The county clerk, twenty-eight hundred dollars per thirteenth class. Salaries of county officers. Supervisors. Classification of annum. 2. The sheriff, thirty-five hundred dollars per annum, and mileage for the service of any and all processes required by law to be served by him, at the rate of five cents per mile for every mile necessarily traveled in the performance of his duty or in the serving of papers of any kind. 3. The recorder, twenty-six hundred dollars per annum. 5. The treasurer, eighteen hundred dollars per annum. 8. The district attorney, two thousand dollars per annum. 10. The public administrator, such fees as are now or may be hereafter allowed by law. 11. The superintendent of schools, eighteen hundred dollars per annum, and actual traveling expenses when visiting the schools of his county. 12. The surveyor, such fees as are now or may be hereafter allowed by law. 13. Each supervisor. Each member of the board of supervisors, six hundred dollars per annum and actual mileage to and from the county seat while in the discharge of his official duties, and mileage as road commissioner, fifteen cents per mile, one way; provided, the amount of mileage for each supervisor shall not exceed the sum of three hundred dollars in any one year. 14. For the purpose of regulating the compensation of justownships. tices of the peace and constables, judicial townships in this class of counties are hereby classified according to their population, as follows: Townships containing a population of six thousand five hundred or more shall belong to and be known as townships of the first class; townships containing a population of less than six thousand five hundred and more than four thousand five hundred shall belong to and be known as townships of the second class; townships containing a population of less than four thousand five hundred and more than two thousand five hundred shall belong to and be known as townships of the third class; townships containing a population of less than two thousand five hundred and more than one thousand, shall belong to and be known as townships of the fourth class; townships containing a population of less than one thousand and more than eight hundred shall belong to and be known as townships of the fifth class; townships containing a population of less than eight hundred shall belong to and be known as townships of the sixth class. The population of the several judicial townships shall be determined for the purpose of this and the succeeding section, by multiplying by five the total vote cast in such townships for governor at the last general election held November fourth, nineteen hundred and two, as Counties of indicated by the official election returns of said election. thirteenth class. salaries. 15. Justices of the peace shall receive the following fees and Justices of salaries, which shall be paid monthly in the same manner as the peace, the salaries of the county officers are paid, out of the general fund of the county, which shall be in full for all services rendered by them in criminal cases; provided, however, that if two justices of the peace shall be elected and qualify in any one township, then the said justices shall each receive one half of the salary therein provided for, to wit: In townships of the first class, seventy-five dollars per month; in townships of the second class, fifty dollars per month; in townships of the third class, twenty-five dollars per month; in townships of the fourth class, fifteen dollars per month; in townships of the fifth class five dollars per month; in townships of the sixth class, such fees as are now or may hereafter be allowed by law. Each justice must pay in to the county treasurer once a month all fines collected by him. In addition to the monthly salaries herein allowed, each justice may receive and retain for his own use, such fees as are now or may hereafter be allowed by law for services rendered by him in civil cases; justices of the peace of the first and second classes shall be allowed their actual office rent, not to exceed the sum of fifteen dollars each, for any one month. stables, Constables shall receive the following fees and salaries which Con shall be paid monthly in the same manner as the salaries of the salaries. county officers are paid out of the general fund of the county, and which shall be in full for all services rendered by them in criminal cases, to wit: In townships of the first class, thirty dollars per month; in townships of the second class, thirty dollars per month; in townships of the third class, twenty dollars per month; in townships of the fourth class, fifteen dollars per month; in townships of the fifth class, five dollars per month; in townships of the sixth class, such fees as are now or may hereafter be allowed by law; 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 own township, for the service of a warrant of arrest or any other process in a criminal case (where such service is in fact made) both going and returning ten cents per mile; for each mile traveled out of his county, both going to and returning from the place of arrest or other service of process, five cents per mile; for transporting prisoners to the county jail a constable shall be allowed his actual expenses each way. In addition to the monthly salary allowed him herein, each constable shall receive for his own use, in civil cases, the fees which are now or may hereafter be allowed by law. The compensations herein provided for justices of the peace In effect. and constables shall take effect and be in force on and after the first Monday in April, nineteen hundred and three. Official reporter. tion to be in full for all services. 16. The official reporter of the superior court shall receive the fees allowed by law. 17. The compensation allowed each officer above enumerCompensa- ated shall be in full for all services, and shall include the pay of all deputies (except in the case of the district attorney, wherein one deputy is provided for within the discretion of the board of supervisors) and copyists that may be needed in their respective offices whenever the same are allowed in any way except as provided in section two hundred and fifteen of the county government act, approved eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, wherein it provides certain fees and commissions for the assessor and license collector. SEC. 2. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent with this act, in so far as they are inconsistent, are hereby repealed. SEC. 3. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Counties of Salaries of County officers. CHAPTER CXCVIII. An act to amend an act entitled "An act to establish a uniform system of county and township governments," approved April 1st, 1897, and amended March 23rd, 1901, by amending section 185 thereof, relating to the salaries and fees of county and township officers in counties of the twenty-eighth class. [Approved March 19, 1903.] The people of the State of California, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. Section one hundred and eighty-five of an act entitled "An act to establish a uniform system of county and township governments," approved April 1st, 1897, and as amended March 23rd, 1901, is hereby amended so as to read as follows: 185. In counties of the twenty-eighth class, the county and township officers shall receive, as compensation for the services required of them by law or by virtue of their offices, the following salaries and fees, to wit: 1. The county clerk, three thousand two hundred and fifty dollars per annum. 2. The sheriff, six thousand dollars per annum. 3. The recorder, two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars per annum. 4. The auditor, one thousand dollars per annum. 5. The treasurer, two thousand dollars per annum. 6. The tax collector, one thousand dollars per annum. 7. The assessor, four thousand two hundred and fifty dollars per annum. 8. The district attorney, two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars per annum. |