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use all fees for service of all papers served by him and issued without his county. The said fifty-one hundred dollars to be in full of all fees or percentages as license collector.

3. The recorder, thirty-two hundred dollars per annum, in full of all services, including filing and recording mining and other location notices.

4. The auditor, twelve hundred dollars per annum,

5. The treasurer, eighteen hundred dollars per annum. 6. The tax collector, one thousand dollars per annum. 7. The assessor, twelve hundred dollars per annum, and he is hereby allowed in addition thereto ten deputies, to be appointed by him, who shall each receive four dollars per day for not exceeding three months in any calendar year, while engaged in the performance of their duties; provided, that the amount paid for services of deputy assessors shall not exceed twenty-four hundred dollars in any one year.

8. The district attorney, twenty-one hundred

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per annum, and he is hereby allowed in addition thereto one deputy appointed by him, who shall receive nine hundred dollars per annum.

9. The coroner, such fees as are after allowed by law.

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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 necessary expenses for traveling in visiting schools in the county, to be allowed by the supervisors of the county.

12. The surveyor, such fees' as are now or may be hereafter allowed by law.

13. For the purpose of regulating the, compensation of justices of the peace and constables, townships in this class of counties are hereby classified according to their population, as shown by the federal census of nineteen hundred, as follows:

Townships having a population of three thousand or more shall belong to and be known as townships of the first class; townships having a population of two thousand and less than three thousand, shall belong to and be known as townships of the second class; townships having a population of one thousand six hundred and less than two thousand shall belong to and be known as townships of the third class; and townships having a popula

tion of less than one thousand six hundred shall belong to and be known as townships of the fourth class.

Justices of the peace shall receive the following salaries, which hall be paid monthly, in the same manner as the salaries of county officers are paid, out of the general fund of the county, and which shall be in full of all services rendered by them in criminal cases, to wit:

In townships of the first class, eighty-five dollars per month; in townships of the second class, seventy-five dollars per month; in townships of the third class, twenty dollars per month; and in townships of the fourth class ten dollars per month.

In addition to the monthly salaries herein allowed for services in criminal actions, cases and examinations, each justice of the peace may, for his own use, collect the following fees, and no other, in civil actions:

Each justice of the peace shall be allowed, in civil actions before him, for all services to be performed by him before trial, three dollars; and for the trial, and all proceedings subsequent thereto, including all affidavits, swearing of witnesses and jury, and the entry of judgment and issue of execution thereon, four dollars; and fifteen cents for each hour actually engaged in such trial after the expiration of eight hours; and in all cases where judgment is rendered by default or confession, for all services, including execution and satisfaction of judgment, three dollars.

For certificate and transmitting transcript and papers on appeal, one dollar.

For copies of papers on docket, per folio, ten cents. For issuing a search warrant, to be paid by the party demanding the same, fifty cents.

For celebrating a marriage and returning a certificate thereof to the county recorder, three dollars.

For taking an acknowledgment of any instrument, for the first name, fifty cents; for each additional name, twenty-five cents.

For taking depositions, per folio, fifteen cents.

For all services connected with the posting of estrays, one dollar.

In cases before the justices of the peace, when the venue shall be changed, the justice before whom the action shall be brought for all services rendered, including the making up and transmission of the transcript and papers, shall receive three dollars; and the justice of the peace before

whom the trial shall take place shall receive the same fees as if the action had been commenced before him.

For performing the duties of coroner, when the coroner fails to act, the same fees and mileage as are allowed the coroner in like cases.

For issuing each process, writ, order or paper required by law to be issued, not otherwise provided for, twentyfive cents.

For each certificate or affidavit not otherwise herein provided for, twenty-five cents.

For administering oath or affirmation not otherwise herein provided for, twenty-five cents.

For taking and approving bond or undertaking, including the justification of sureties, fifty cents.

14. Constables shall receive the following salaries, which shall be paid monthly, in the same manner as the salaries of county officers are paid, out of the general fund of the county, and which shall be in full of all services rendered by them in criminal cases, to wit:

In townships of the first class, one hundred dollars per month; in townships of the second class, seventy-five dollars per month; in townships of the third class, twenty dollars per month, and in townships of the fourth class, ten dollars per month. In addition to the monthly salaries herein allowed for services in criminal actions, cases and proceedings, each constable shall also be allowed all necessary expenses actually and properly incurred, in arresting and conveying prisoners to court or to prison, and also all necessary expenses actually incurred in the transportation of prisoners from prison to court, and the return of said prisoners to prison; and shall be allowed, also, for each mile actually traveled, both in going and coming, in the service of subpoenas, in criminal cases, per mile, ten cents; which said expenses and mileage shall be audited and allowed by the board of supervisors as other claims against the county are audited and allowed, and shall be paid out of the county treasury.

In addition to the monthly salaries herein allowed for services in criminal actions and cases, each constable may, for his own use, collect the following fees, and no others, in civil actions:

For serving summons and complaint, for each defendant served, fifty cents.

For each copy of summons for service, when actually made by him, twenty-five cents.

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For levying writ of attachment or execution, or executing order of arrest, or for the delivery of personal property, one dollar.

For serving writ of attachment or execution on any ship, boat, or vessel, three dollars.

For keeping personal property, such sum as the court may order; but no more than one dollar and fifty cents per day shall be allowed for a keeper when necessarily employed.

For taking bond or undertaking, fifty cents.

For copies of writ and other papers, except summons, complaint, and subpoenas, per folio, ten cents; provided, that when correct copies are furnished to him for use, no charge shall be made for such copies.

For serving any writ, notice, or order, except summons, complaint, and subpoenas, for each person served, fifty cents.

For writing and posting each notice of sale of property, fifty cents.

For furnishing notice for publication, twenty-five cents. For serving subpoenas, each witness, including copy, twenty-five cents.

For collecting money on execution, one and one-half per cent.

For executing and delivering certificate of sale, fifty cents.

For executing and delivering constable's deed, one dollar and fifty cents.

For each mile actually traveled within his township in the service of any writ, order, or paper, in civil actions, in going only, per mile, twenty-five cents.

For traveling outside of his township to serve such writ, order, or paper, in civil actions, in going only, twenty-five cents per mile; provided, that a constable shall not be required to travel outside of his township to serve any civil process, order, or paper. No constructive mileage shall be charged, allowed, or paid, in criminal or civil cases.

For each day's attendance in court, in civil cases, three dollars per day.

For executing a search warrant, two dollars; and for each mile necessarily traveled within his county in executing a search warrant, both in going and returning from place of search, fifteen cents; said fee and mileage to be paid by the party demanding the search.

For summoning a jury, in civil cases, two dollars, including mileage.

For commissions for receiving and paying over money on execution without levy, or when the goods or land levied on shall not be sold, one per cent. The fees herein allowed for the levy of an execution, and for making or collecting the money on execution, shall be collected from the judgment debtor, by virtue of such execution, in the same manner as the sum herein directed to be paid.

County officers must, and township officers may, demand the payment of all fees in advance.

Justices of the peace shall, on or before the first Monday of each month, pay into the county treasurer all moneys collected by them on fines imposed and collected, and all moneys belonging to the county coming from any source.

The board of supervisors shall, within sixty days after the passage of this act, establish by ordinance, according to the provisions of subdivisions thirteen and fourteen of section twenty-six, the population of the various townships of this class of counties.

15. Each member of the board of supervisors, five hundred dollars per annum and ten cents per mile, one way, between residence and county seat, in attending upon all regular, special or adjourned meetings of the board of supervisors; provided, that the chairman of the board of supervisors may receive twenty-five cents per mile, one way, between residence and the county seat, when attending at the county seat for the single purpose of counting the money in the county treasury, as required by law.

16. In counties of this class the official reporter of the superior court shall receive, as full compensation for taking notes in civil and criminal cases tried in said court, and for preliminary examinations in justices' courts, 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 county officers; and for transcription of said notes, when required, he shall receive the sum of ten cents per folio for the original, and five cents per folio for a copy; where the reporter is required to transcribe the whole, or any part of his notes from day to day as the trial progresses, he shall receive, in addition to said sums hereinbefore provided, the further sum of five cents per folio for the original, and two and one-half cents per folio for the copy. Said compensation for transcription in criminal cases to be audited and allowed by the board

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