. SEC. 29. Every officer, upon receiving any fees for official Receipts. 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 for three times the amount so paid. SEC. 30. No fees shall be charged by any officer for adminis- Oath of office tering and certifying the oath of office. SEC. 31. The Attorney-General or any District Attorney is Witness fees. authorized to cause subpoenas to be issued, and compel the attendance of witnesses on behalf of the State, without paying or tendering fees in advance to either officers or witnesses; and any witness refusing or failing to attend after being served with a subpoena may be proceeded against and shall be liable in the same manner as provided by law in other cases where fees have been tendered or paid. SEC. 32. The Clerk of any Court before which any witness shall have attended on behalf of the State in any civil action shall give to such witness a certificate, under seal, of travel and attendance, which shall entitle him to receive the same from the State Treasury on the Controller's warrant. SEC. 33. The provisions of the two preceding sections of this Act shall extend to all actions and proceedings brought in the name of the Attorney-General, or any other person or persons, for the benefit of the State. filed in office of State. SEC. 34. It shall be the duty of every officer in this Act Record of named, authorized to receive any fees for official services of fee himself or deputies, to keep a fee book, in which he shall enter of Secretary an exact and full account in detail of all fees, commissions, or compensations of whatever nature or kind by him or his deputies earned, collected, or chargeable, with the date, the name of the payer, if paid, and the nature of the services in each case. In the first week of January and July, respectively, in every year, he shall file in the office of the Clerk of the Board of Supervisors a sworn statement, in writing, of the amount of fees earned, collected or chargeable by him or his deputies, for official services during the six calendar months ending on the last day of the previous month. If any person shall hold more than one office, he may keep a separate fee book for each office, and may make separate statements for each, or he may keep a joint fee book and make joint statements, at his discretion. The Clerk of the Board of Supervisors of the several counties of this State are hereby required respectively to make an abstract of the amount of fees returned to him as having been earned, collected or chargeable by the respective officers named in this Act, and shall forward the same, duly sworn and certified to, to the Secretary of State, in the month of January of every year, to be by him filed in his office. SEC. 35. All and every officer of the several counties of this State, all local officers resident and officiating therein under the State laws, and all State officers within this State not named in this Act, who are authorized by law to receive any fees for official services of themselves or deputies, shall keep a fee book, in which they shall enter an exact and full account in detail of all Penalty for neglect. Sections not applicable to San Francisco. Act to take fees, commissions, or compensation of whatever nature or kind by them or their deputies earned, collected, or chargeable, with the date, the name of the payer, if paid, and the nature of the service in each case. Within two weeks after the close of their official term they shall deposit said book in the office of the Secretary of State. In the first week of January and July of every year they shall file in the office of the Secretary of State a sworn statement, in writing, of the amount of fees earned, collected, or chargeable by them or their deputies for official services during the six calendar months ending on the last day of the previous month. SEC. 36. If any officer named in this Act shall refuse or wilfully neglect to keep a fee book, or to file a sworn statement, or to make returns to the Secretary of State as berein required, he shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction shall be punished by a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars, and by a sentence of removal from office, if in office at the time of sentence; and on failure of any officer herein required to make returns to the office of Secretary of State, he shall, within thirty days thereafter, give information thereof to the District Attorney of the proper county, who shall without delay proceed to enforce the provisions of this Act. SEC 37. All Acts and parts of Acts inconsistent or in conflict with the provisions of this Act are hereby repealed; provided, that sections four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, sixteen, seventeen, eighteen, nineteen and twenty shall not apply nor have any force in the City and County of San Francisco. SEC. 38. This Act shall take effect and be in force from first effect in 1870 January, eighteen hundred and seventy; but shall not be construed to affect the fees of any officer now elected until the expiration of the term for which such officer is elected. To be paid in coin. Supervisors CHAPTER CCCLXVII. An Act to regulate salaries and fix the compensation of certain county officers. [Approved March 28, 1868.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. Such salaries, compensation and fees shall be allowed to the officers hereinafter named, for their services rendered in discharging the duties imposed on them by law, as herein provided; and such officers may lawfully demand, charge and receive the same in gold or silver coin. SEC. 2. Supervisors, for all services required of them by law or by virtue of their office, shall receive five dollars per diem and twenty cents per mile in travelling from the place of their residence to the Court-house; but such per diem shall not ex- Pay of Suceed, in the aggregate, to each Supervisor during any one year, pervisors. the following sums: In the Counties of Alpine, Amador, Del Norte, Fresno, Humboldt, Inyo, Klamath, Kern, Lake, Lassen, Marin, Merced, Mono, Monterey, San Bernardino, San Diego, San Luis Obispo, Santa Cruz, Santa Barbara, San Mateo, Stanislaus, Tehama and Tulare, the sum of one hundred and fifty dollars. In the Counties of Calaveras, Colusa, Mariposa, Shasta, Siskiyou, Sutter, Trinity and Tuolumne, the sum of two hundred dollars. In the Counties of Alameda, Butte, Contra Costa, Los Angeles, Mariposa, Mendocino, Napa, Plumas, Solano and Yolo, the sum of two hundred and fifty dollars. In El Dorado, Nevada and Placer, three hundred and fifty dollars. And in the Counties of Santa Clara, San Joaquin, Sierra, Sonoma and Yuba, the sum of three hundred dollars. Assessors. And in the County of Sacramento, six hundred dollars. Provided, that only one mileage shall be allowed at each term; and provided further, that no Supervisor shall be allowed more than one day's pay for any one day by reason of his being on the committees appointed by the Board of Supervisors, or for any other cause; and the per diem during any one year, including committee duty, shall not exceed in the aggregate, to each member of the Board, the amount prescribed in this section. SEC. 3. Assessments shall be made in all the counties by County County Assessors; and in counties wherein Township and District Assessors now exist, elections for County Assessors shall take place at the general election in the year eighteen hundred and sixty-nine, who shall qualify and give bonds as is now or may hereafter be required by law. Assessors shall receive such com- Compensapensation, not exceeding six dollars per diem for each day necessarily employed in making assessments, as the Board of Supervisors shall determine, not to exceed, however, in the aggregate, for services in any one year, the sums following, viz : In the Counties of Alpine, Inyo, Lake and Mono, four hun dred dollars. In the Counties of San Bernardino, San Diego, Lassen, Norte and Klamath, six hundred dollars. Del In the Counties of Amador, Colusa, Fresno, Humboldt, Kern, Marin, Sutter, Tehama and Trinity, eight hundred dollars. In the Counties of Calaveras, Merced, San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara, San Mateo, Stanislaus, Santa Cruz and Tulare, one thousand dollars. In the Counties of Contra Costa, Mariposa, Mendocino, Montery, Plumas, Shasta, Tuolumne and Siskiyou, twelve hundred dollars. In the Counties of Butte, Sierra, El Dorado and Yolo, fifteen hundred dollars. In the Counties of Los Angeles, Napa and Solano, eighteen hundred dollars. And in the County of Yuba, two thousand dollars. tion. Superin- District Surplus. In the Counties of Alameda, Placer, San Joaquin and Sonoma, two thousand five hundred dollars. And in the Counties of Santa Clara, Sacramento and Nevada, three thousand dollars. But no compensation shall be allowed until the Assessor shall file with the Board of Supervisors a statement, verified by his oath, of the number of days actually and necessarily spent by him and his deputies in the discharge of their official duties. SEC. 4. Each County Superintendent of Public Schools shall receive such salary, together with reasonable travelling expenses, as may be allowed by the Board of Supervisors, which shall be paid out of the County General Fund; provided, such compensation shall not be less than a sum equal to twenty dollars for each district school in his county; and he shall be allowed, in addition to his salary, for postage and expressage, payable out of the County School Fund, a sum equal to fifty cents for each school district. SEC. 5. The District Attorney shall receive, for all services required of him by law or by virtue of his office, a salary at the rate per annum of five hundred dollars, and the following fees: For each conviction for felony, when the punishment is death, twenty-five dollars; for each conviction for other felony, twelve dollars; for each conviction for misdemeanor, eight dollars; which said sums shall be assessed against the person convicted, and if the same cannot be collected from him, then it shall be considered a county charge and be audited by the Board of Supervisors. For all collections on bonds or forfeited recognizances, eight per centum. For every conviction under the Act to prohibit gaming and the Act to prohibit lotteries, raffles, gifts, gift enterprises and other schemes, to be collected out of the fine or fines imposed upon the party convicted, fifty dollars. For services rendered in the collection of delinquent taxes, a compensation equivalent to ten per centum on the amount recovered, to be added thereto if paid before judgment; and if not so paid, then fifteen per centum to be added to and to constitute a part of the judgment; provided, that in no case shall the State or county be liable for such per centum. For all amounts collected by him for the State or county by action, eight per centum on the amount collected; provided, that in no event shall the compensation in any one case exceed five hundred dollars. Should the amount of fees, commissions and percentage received in any one year, added to the salary allowed by law to the District Attorney, exceed the sum of two thousand dollars, then any excess above that sum shall be paid by him into the County Treasury, and constitute a part of the Salary Fund thereof. Before any demand for fees, percentage or compensation, presented by the District Attorney to the Board of Supervisors for payment out of the Salary Fund or the funds of the county, shall be allowed, he shall make an affidavit that the services for which such fees, percentage or compensation is claimed was actually performed and the amount so demanded mento Co. justly due; provided, however, that in the County of Sacramento Affidavit, In Sacra the District Attorney shall receive from said fees, commissions and percentage a sum which, added to his salary, shall not exceed four thousand five hundred dollars. SEC. 6. County Judges shall each receive an annual salary County as herein provided: In the Counties of Alameda, Napa, Nevada, Placer, Sacramento, San Joaquin, Santa Clara, Solano, Sonoma, Siskiyou and Yuba, two thousand dollars. In the Counties of Amador, Butte, Contra Costa, El Dorado, Los Angeles, Marin, Mendocino, Santa Cruz, Tulare and Yolo, fifteen hundred dollars. In the Counties of Calaveras, Colusa, Humboldt, Mariposa, Monterey, Plumas, Shasta, Sierra, Sutter, Tehama and Tuolumne, twelve hundred dollars. In the Counties of Alpine, Del Norte, Fresno, Klamath, Kern, Lake, Lassen, Merced, Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo, San Mateo, Stanislaus and Trinity, one thousand dollars. In the Counties of Inyo and Mono, eight hundred dollars. In the Counties of San Bernardino and San Diego, five hundred dollars. Judges. SEC. 7. In all cases the mileage allowed by law to any Sheriff Sheriffs. shall belong to and be retained or collected by him for his own use and benefit. And in the Counties of Alpine, Amador, Calaveras, Colusa, Del Norte, Fresno, Humboldt, Inyo, Klamath, Kern, Lake, Lassen, Marin, Mariposa, Merced, Mono, Monterey, Plumas, San Bernardino, San Diego, Santa Barbara, Santa Cruz, San Luis Obispo, San Mateo, Shasta, Sierra, Siskiyou, Stanislaus, Sutter, Tehama, Trinity, Tulare, Tuolumne and Yolo, the Sheriff shall be ex officio collector of taxes. He shall receive, to include the pay of deputies and jailer, in addition to mileage allowed by law, the fees, commissions and percentage as provided in the Act to regulate the fees of office, approved March [twenty-eighth], eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, and the percentage herein allowed for the collection of taxes, to the amount in the aggregate of thirty-eight hundred dollars per annum, which shall be in full compensation for all services rendered by him, or his deputies or assistants, as Sheriff and ex officio Tax Collector. And in the Counties of Butte, Contra Costa, El Dorado, Los Angeles, Mendocino, Napa, Nevada, Placer and Yuba, the Sheriffs shall receive the fees, commissions and percentage as by law provided, to the amount of four thousand dollars, in full for the services of himself and deputies or assistants. And in the Counties of Alameda, San Joaquin, Solano and Sonoma, he shall receive the fees, commissions and percentage allowed by law, to the amount of forty-two hundred doliars, in full for services of himself and deputies or assistants. And in the Counties of Santa Clara and Sacramento he shall receive the fees, commissions and percentage prescribed by law, to the amount of forty-five hundred dollars, which shall be in full for the services of himself and deputies or assistants. For the collection of taxes, except school moneys, poll taxes, license taxes and foreign miners' license tax, the Sheriffs shall receive the following rates on all moneys collected and paid over by them, in each fiscal year (commencing on the first Monday |