Sheriffs. County Cominty of March): Six per centum on the first ten thousand dollars; For the collection of poll taxes, he shall receive fifteen per For every license sold, he shall be entitled to demand and receive, as a fee, the sum of fifty cents. section of the Act to For the collection of money from foreign miners' licenses, he SEC. 8. County Treasurers shall receive salaries as follows: In the Counties of Fresno, Kern, Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo, San Mateo and Trinity, the sum of six hundred dollars each. In the Counties of Mariposa, Merced, Plumas, Shasta, Siski- In the Counties of Amador, Calaveras, Colusa, Humboldt, In the Counties of Butte, Contra Costa, El Dorado, Los An- In the Counties of Alameda, Napa, San Joaquin, Solano and The County Treasurers included in subdivisions sixth, seventh SEC. 9. In the Counties of Alpine, Amador, Calaveras, Colusa, Contra Costa, Del Norte, El Dorado, Fresno, Humboldt, Inyo, Klamath, Kern, Lassen, Lake, Los Angeles, Merced, Mendocino, Marin, Mariposa, Monterey, Mono, Plumas, San Bernardino, San Diego, San Luis Obispo, Santa Cruz, Santa Barbara, Shasta, Sierra, San Mateo, Siskiyou, Sutter, Stanislaus, Trinity, Tehama, Tuolumne, Tulare, Yolo and Yuba, the County Clerk shall be ex officio Recorder, Auditor and Clerk of the Board of Supervisors, Equalization and Canvassers of his county; and in the Counties of Alameda, Butte, Napa, Nevada, Placer, Sacramento, San Joaquin, Santa Clara, Solano and Sonoma, the County Clerk shall be ex officio Clerk of the Board of Supervisors, Equalization and Canvassers, and the County Recorder shall be ex officio County Auditor; provided, that in the County of Alameda a County Recorder shall be elected at the general election in eighteen hundred and sixty-nine, who shall qualify and give bonds, as is provided by law, and who shall enter on the discharge of his duties on the expiration of the term of office of the County Clerk elected in eighteen hundred and sixty-seven. SEC. 10. County Clerks, to include all services rendered ex Compensaofficio as Recorders, Auditors, Clerks of Boards of Supervisors, tion. Equalization and Canvassers, and to include the pay of deputies and clerk hire, shall receive for compensation as follows: In the Counties of Alpine, Butte, Del Norte, Inyo, Klamath, Kern, Lassen, Lake, Mono, Plumas, San Bernardino and San Diego, all fees, commissions and percentages allowed by law for official services, to the amount of two thousand dollars. In the Counties of Calaveras, Fresno, Humboldt, Marin, San Luis Obispo, Santa Cruz, Santa Barbara, Trinity and Tuolumne, to the amount of twenty-five hundred dollars. In the Counties of Amador, Colusa, Contra Costa, Merced, Mendocino, Mariposa, Monterey, Shasta, Sierra, Siskiyou, San Mateo, Napa, Placer, Sutter, Stanislaus, Tehama, Tulare and Yolo, to the amount of three thousand dollars. In the Counties of Alameda, Los Angeles, Nevada, San Joaquin, Solano, Sonoma and Yuba, to the amount of thirty-five hundred dollars. In the Counties of El Dorado, Santa Clara and Sacramento, to the amount of four thousand dollars. And when the fees, commissions and percentages shall exceed the amounts allowed for compensation to such Clerks, the surplus shall be paid into the Salary Fund of the county. Recorders. SEC. 11. County Recorders, to include services performed as County Auditor ex officio, and to pay deputies and clerk hire, shall receive for compensation as follows: In the County of Butte, the fees, commissions and percentage allowed by law for official services, to the amount of fifteen hundred dollars. In the Counties of Napa, Nevada and Placer, to the amount of twenty-five hundred dollars. In the Counties of San Joaquin, Solano and Sonoma, to the amount of three thousand dollars. In the Counties of Alameda, Sacramento and Santa Clara, to the amount of four thousand dollars. And when the fees, commissions and percentage of any Recorder shall exceed the amount of compensation prescribed in this section, the surplus shall be paid into the Salary Fund of the Treasury. sessors and SEC. 12. County Assessors and Treasurers, for all taxes col- County Aslected by them, shall receive the same fees as are allowed by Treasurers. law to Sheriffs, ex officio Collectors; which percentage, and the compensation allowed to the Auditor for making the assessment roll, shall be apportioned pro rata between the State and county. SEC. 13. It shall be the duty of all officers in this Act named Official to complete the business of their respective offices to the time business. Act not to apply. Unlawful to receive other official compensation. audited monthly. of the expiration of their respective terms; and in case any officer at the close of his term shall leave to his successor official labor to be performed, for which he has received compensation or which it was his duty to perform, he shall be liable to pay to his successor the full value of such services, which may be recovered in any Court of competent jurisdiction. SEC. 14. This Act shall not be held to reduce the salary or fees of any person now in office, but he shall for the present term receive the compensation now prescribed by law. SEC. 15. None of the officers mentioned in this Act shall receive any other compensation whatever for any services that now are or may be hereafter required of them in the discharge of their respective offices. No office which is now or may be hereafter created, the duties of which, in whole or in part, shall be devolved on such officers, shall entitle them to receive any extra compensation therefor; provided, that all fees received by any of the officers herein named and heretofore applied to their own use, over and above the amount of compensation established by this Act, shall be paid into the County Treasury and constitute the Salary Fund of the county. Salaries to be SEC. 16. The County Auditor of each county shall audit monthly the salary of the County Judge, District Attorney and Treasurer, and draw his warrant in favor of each for his proportionate amount of salary on the Salary Fund; but in case the said fund shall be exhausted, then on the General Fund. Salaries paid in fees. Surplus. Fees to be paid into Treasury. When Su pervisors to allow pay of officers. SEC. 17. The Recorder, ex officio Auditor, and the County Clerk as such and as ex officio Clerk of the Courts of record and Clerk of the Board of Supervisors, Equalization and Canvassers, and also as ex officio Recorder and Auditor, or when not such Recorder and Auditor, and the Sheriff, shall receive the fees allowed by law; but should such fees, in the aggregate, exceed the amount of the compensation provided by this Act, then and in such case any excess above such compensation shall be paid into the County Treasury and be made a part of the Salary Fund; but in no event shall such salary become a county charge, nor shall it be held responsible for or pay the same when the fees received fail to amount to such salary. SEC. 18. The officers named in sections seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven and twelve of this Act shall collect and safely keep all fees, commissions and percentage now allowed by law for services rendered by them in their several official capacities, and upon the first Monday of each month shall pay over the same to the County Treasurer, which shall become a part of the Salary Fund of the county; and any compensation or allowance made by the revenue or other laws of the State out of the State Treasury or funds to the Auditor, Treasurer or Collector, shall hereafter be retained in or be paid into the County Treasury as a part of the Salary Fund, except the mileage allowed by the State to the County Treasurer, which he shall be entitled to receive and retain for his own use. SEC. 19. Any balance remaining in the Salary Fund at the end of the fiscal year shall be paid into the General Fund. SEC. 20. At any regular meeting of the Board of Supervisors, the officers to whom per diem or salaries are due may make out and present to such Board of Supervisors the account of their services, as provided in this Act; and if it shall appear to the satisfaction of said Board that said officers have complied with the provisions of the same, they shall allow and order paid out of the Salary Fund of the county, or if there be no Salary Fund, then out of the General Fund, the amount severally due such officers. be verified on oath. SEC. 21. It shall be the duty of every officer in this Act Fee book to named to exhibit the fee book which the law requires him to keep, to the Board of Supervisors at each regular quarterly meeting, or whenever the said Supervisors may require it, for examination and settlement of fees; and such officer shall verify the same by his oath, declaring it to contain a full, exact and correct account of all fees, commissions and percentages received by him or earned in his office for official services; and any officer who shall refuse or wilfully neglect to exhibit his Wilful fee book, or to verify the same by his oath, shall be deemed neglect. guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction be punished by a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars, and by sentence of removal from office, if in office at the date of sentence. taxes. SEC. 22. Whenever the Treasurer or Sheriff of any county Collection of shall be ex officio collector of taxes, it shall be his duty to go himself, or to send a deputy, into every township in his county for one day in each year, to receive the taxes of taxpayers; and. he shall give ten days notice of such visit in some newspaper of his county, if there be a newspaper published therein, and also by posting three handbills in each township of said county. SEC. 23. The City and County of San Francisco is excepted Act not from the operations of this Act. applicable. SEC. 24. All Acts and parts of Acts in conflict with the pro- Repealed. visions of this Act are repealed, so far as they affect the provisions of this Act, to take effect from the first Monday of March, eighteen hundred and seventy, when this Act shall go into operation. CHAPTER CCCLXVIII. An Act to amend section three of an Act concerning District Court Reporters, approved March thirteenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-six. [Approved March 28, 1868.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. Section three of said Act is hereby amended so as to read as follows: tion. Section 3. Such Reporter shall receive as compensation for Compensahis services not exceeding ten dollars per day for taking notes, and not exceeding twenty cents per folio for transcription, to be paid by the party in whose favor judgment is rendered, and be taxed up by the Clerk of the Court as costs against the party against whom judgment is rendered. In cases where a tran Dist. Court script may be required by the Court, the expense thereof shall of them, in the discretion of the Court; and no verdict or Applies to portion of County. CHAPTER CCCLXIX. An Act supplementary to and amendatory of an Act to protect agriculture and to prevent the trespassing of animals upon private property, approved March twenty-sixth, eighteen hundred and sixty-six. [Approved March 28, 1868.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. The provisions of the Act to protect agriculture Sacramento and to prevent the trespassing of animals upon private property, approved March twenty-sixth, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, are hereby extended to all that portion of Sacramento County lying east of Thirty-first (31st) street, south of the American River, west of a line drawn due south from the mouth of Alder Creek to the Jackson road, and north of Jackson road within these boundaries. SEC. 2. This Act shall take effect ten days after its passage. Districts. CHAPTER CCCLXX. An Act to re-district the County of Los Angeles and to provide for the election of Supervisors. [Approved March 28, 1868.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. The County of Los Angeles shall be divided into five Supervisor districts, which shall be known and designated |