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For summoning each witness, twenty-five cents.

For serving an attachment or levying an execution on the property of a defendant, one dollar and fifty cents.

For summoning and swearing a jury to try the rights of property, and making a verdict, two dollars.

For receiving and taking care of property on execution, order or attachment, his actual necessary expenses, to be allowed by the justice who issued the order, attachment or execution upon the affidavit of the constable that the charges are correct and that the expenses were necessarily incurred.

For collecting all sums on execution, three per cent, to be charged against the defendant named in the execution.

For serving a warrant or order for the delivery of personal property, or making an arrest in a civil case, one dollar and fifty cents.

For making each arrest in criminal cases, two dollars.

For every mile necessarily traveled, in going only, to serve any civil or criminal process or paper, or to take a prisoner before a magistrate or to prison, twenty-five cents; but when two or more persons are served or summoned in the same suit and at the same time, mileage shall be charged only for the most distant, if they live in the same direction. For sales of estrays, the same fees as for sales on execution.

For the transportation of prisoners to the county jail the actual necessary expenses.

For attending a justice's court and taking charge of a Jury and prisoner when required two dollars for each day of actual attendance upon the court.

For all other services the same fees as are allowed sheriffs for like services.

15. Each member of the board of supervisors four hundred dollars per annum and twenty cents per mile for traveling from his residence to the county seat, also his actual necessary expenses while acting as ex-officio road overseer or commissioner not to exceed three hundred dollars in any one year. [Amendment approved March 20, 1905; Stats. 1905, p. 544. In effect January 1, 1907.]

Sec. 198. In counties of the forty-first class the county officers shall receive, as compensation for the ser

vices required of them by law or by virtue of their offices, the following salaries, to wit:

1. The county clerk, three thousand dollars per annum. 2. The sheriff, four thousand 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 an

num.

4. The auditor, one thousand dollars per annum.

5. The treasurer, one thousand five hundred dollars per

annum.

6. The tax collector, one thousand dollars per annum, which shall be in full for all services as tax collector and as license collector.

7. The assessor, two thousand five hundred dollars per

annum.

8. The district attorney, two thousand 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 two 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. In counties of this class the township officers shall receive the following compensation, to wit:

In townships having a population of three thousand or more, justices of the peace and constables shall each receive a monthly salary of sixty dollars per month.

In townships having a population of fifteen hundred and less than three thousand, the justices of the peace and constables shall each receive a monthly salary of forty-five dollars per month.

In townships having a population of eight hundred and less than fifteen hundred, the justices of the peace and constables shall each receive a monthly salary of thirty-five dollars per month.

In townships having a population of five hundred and less than eight hundred, the justices of the peace and con

stables shall each receive a monthly salary of fifteen dollars per month.

In townships having a population of less than five hundred, the justices of the peace and constables shall each receive a monthly salary of five dollars per month.

The above named salaries shall be in full compensation for all services of said justices of the peace and constables in criminal cases; 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 they are now or may be hereafter allowed by law, for transporting prisoners to the county jail, the actual expenses of such transportation; and, provided further, that for the purpose of this act, the population of the several townships, shail be ascertained by multiplying the number of registered voters at the last general election by five. But said justices of the peace and constables may retain for their own use, the fees allowed by law in civil cases.

14. Each member of the board of supervisors, five hundred dollars per annum, and his necessary expenses when attending to the business of the county other than the meetings of the board, and twenty cents per mile in going from his residence to the county seat at each meeting of the board; and when serving as road commissioner, three dollars per day, and twenty cents per mile one way for all actual distances traveled by him in the performance of his duties as such commissioner.

Subdivision thirteen of this section shall take effect im. mediately. [Amendment approved March 20, 1905; Stats. 1905, p. 441. In effect in part immediately, and in part in sixty days.]

Sec. 199. In counties of the forty-second class the county officers shall receive, as compensation for the services required of them by law or by virtue of their offices, the following salaries, to wit:

1. The county clerk, two thousand four hundred dollars per annum.

2. The sheriff, four 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 Gen. Laws-19

actual traveling expenses in the execution of a warrant outside of his county issued by a magistrate or court of his county.

3. The recorder, eighteen hundred dollars per annum.

4. The auditor, one thousand eight hundred dollars per

annum.

5. The treasurer, one thousand six hundred dollars per

annum.

6. The tax collector, one thousand two hundred dollars per

annum.

7. The assessor, three thousand dollars per annum.

8. The district attorney, two thousand 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 six hundred dollars per annum, and actual traveling expenses when visiting the schools of his county.

12. The surveyor, fifteen hundred dollars per annum, which shall be in full for all services required of him by the superior court or the board of supervisors, and as ex-officio county recorder; provided, that he shall be entitled to receive from the county his actual and necessary traveling expenses, incurred in the performance of any order of the court or board of supervisors; for all other services the fees allowed by law.

13. 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 of less than nine hundred and more than five hundred, fifty dollars per month; in townships having a population of less than five hundred, thirty dollars per month. In addition to the compensation received in criminal cases each justice of the peace shall receive and retain for his own use such fees as are now or may hereafter be allowed by law for all services performed by him in civil actions.

14. 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, thirty 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 hereafter be allowed by law for all services performed by him in civil actions.

15. Each supervisor, one hundred dollars per month, and mileage at the rate of twenty cents per mile for traveling from residence to county seat to attend upon a session of the board. The salary herein allowed shall be in full for all services, including duties as road commissioner.

16. The official reporter, such fees as are now provided by law.

17. This act, and the amendments contained in the foregoing section relating to counties of the forty-second class, shall take effect immediately as to the compensation of justices of the peace, constables, and supervisors. [Amendment approved March 23, 1901. Stats. 1901, 779. In effect partly immediately and partly 12 M. on the first Monday after January 1, 1903.]

Sec. 200. In counties of the forty-third 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 eight hundred dollars per

annum.

2. The sheriff, three thousand five hundred dollars per annum. The sheriff shall also receive for his own use and benefit all fees, commissions and mileage, in all civil cases within his county, and all fees, commissions and mileage for service of any papers issued by any court outside of his county. 3. The recorder, twelve hundred dollars per annum. 4. The auditor, six hundred dollars per annum.

5. The treasurer, one thousand two hundred dollars per an

num.

6. The tax collector, seven hundred dollars per annum.

7. The assessor, twenty-four hundred dollars per annum.

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