eleventh Counties of the actual cost of transportation and assistance, and mileage at class. twenty-five cents per mile, one way. In conveying two or more prisoners, but one mileage shall be charged. Fees of constables. 21. For each day in which the constable is charged with the custody of a prisoner or prisoners, two dollars fifty cents, and for necessary expense of maintenance and assistance in keeping said prisoners. 22. For summoning a jury, twenty-five cents for each of the persons so summoned, and mileage at the rate of twenty-five cents per mile, going only. 23. For attending court during the trial of a cause or upon an examination on a criminal charge, per day, three dollars. 24. For making sales of estrays in civil cases, the same fees as for sales on execution. 25. For serving writ of possession or restitution, putting a person in possession of the premises, and removing the occupants therefrom, three dollars per day, and mileage at twenty-five cents per mile, going only. 26. The mileage provided for herein shall be computed for the shortest practicable traveled route between the two points for which mileage is claimed. 27. All fees and per diem herein provided for in criminal cases are a county charge, but no constable shall receive in any one month more than one hundred dollars for all services in criminal cases. Unsafe scaffolding; penalty for erecting. CHAPTER CXCIII. An act to amend an act entitled "An act to establish a Penal Code," approved February 14, 1872, by adding a new section to said Penal Code, to be known and numbered as section four hundred and two and three quarters, relating to the furnishing or erecting of unsafe or improper scaffolding or mechanical contrivances. [Approved March 19, 1903.] The people of the State of California, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: 402. Any person or corporation employing or directing another to do or perform any labor in the construction, alteration, repairing, painting or cleaning of any house, building or structure within this state, who knowingly or negligently furnishes or erects or causes to be furnished or erected for the performance of such labor, unsafe or improper scaffolding, slings, hangers, blocks, pulleys, stays, braces, ladders, irons, ropes or other mechanical contrivances, or who hinders or obstructs any officer attempting to inspect the same under the provisions of section 12 of "An act to establish and support a bureau of labor statistics," or who destroys, defaces or removes any notice posted thereon by such officer or permits the use thereof, after the same has been declared unsafe by such officer, contrary to the provisions of said section 12 of said act, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. CHAPTER CXCIV. An act to provide for the amount and the manner of payment of salaries of justices of the peace in counties of the tenth class for services rendered by them in criminal cases, and providing a method of ascertaining the population of the townships for the purpose of this act and to provide a cashier in the office of the tax collector, and a file clerk in the office of the county clerk, and repealing all laws in conflict therewith. [Approved March 19, 1903.] The people of the State of California, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: tenth class. SECTION 1. In counties of the tenth class justices of the Counties of peace shall receive as compensation, for the services required of them by law, the following monthly salaries to be paid each month as salaries of other county officers are paid, which shall be in full for all services rendered by them in criminal cases: Salaries of In townships having a population of six thousand and over, the peace. ninety dollars per month. In townships having a population of two thousand and less than six thousand, seventy-five dollars per month. In townships having a population of one thousand five hundred and less than two thousand, fifty-five dollars per month. In townships having a population of eight hundred and less than one thousand five hundred, thirty-five dollars per month. In townships having a population of five hundred and less than eight hundred, twenty dollars per month. In townships having a population less than five hundred, fifteen dollars per month. In addition to the above salaries each justice of the peace shall collect, for his own use, in civil cases, such fees as are now or may hereafter be allowed by law. justices of tion, how SEC. 2. The population of townships shall, for the purpose Populaof this act, be determined by multiplying the number of voters deterregistered in such township at the last preceding election, mined. by five. SEC. 3. All laws and parts of laws in conflict with the provisions of this act are hereby repealed. tax col SEC. 4. In the office of the county tax collector of counties Cashier for of the tenth class there shall be a cashier to be appointed by lector. and hold office at the pleasure of the county tax collector and the compensation of such cashier shall be nine hundred dollars per annum. Filing clerk. SEC. 5. In the office of the county clerk of counties of the tenth class a filing clerk shall be appointed by and hold office at the pleasure of the county clerk and the compensation of such filing clerk shall be nine hundred dollars per annum. SEC. 6. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Counties of CHAPTER CXCV. An act to amend an act entitled "An act to establish a uniform system of county and township governments," approved April 1, 1897, by amending section 160 thereof, relating to salaries of officers of counties of the third 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 sixty (160) of an act entitled "An act to establish a uniform system of county and township governments," approved April first, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, is hereby amended so as to read as follows: Section 160. In counties of the third class the county third class. officers shall receive as compensation for the services required of them by law, or by virtue of their office, the following salaries: County clerk, and deputies. 1. The county clerk, four thousand ($4,000) dollars per annum; provided, that in counties of this class there shall be and there hereby is allowed to the county clerk one chief deputy, whose salary is hereby fixed at the sum of eighteen hundred ($1,800) dollars per annum; four court-room deputies, whose salaries are hereby fixed at the sum of fifteen hundred ($1,500) dollars per annum each; one deputy, whose salary is hereby fixed at the sum of fifteen hundred ($1,500) dollars per annum; two deputies, whose salaries are hereby fixed at the sum of twelve hundred ($1,200) dollars per annum each; one deputy, whose salary is hereby fixed at the sum of nine hundred ($900) dollars per annum, and one copyist, whose salary is hereby fixed at the sum of nine hundred ($900) dollars per annum; the chief deputy, eight deputies, and one copyist herein provided for shall be appointed by the clerk of said county, and their salaries shall be paid by said county in equal monthly installments at the same time and in the same manner and out of the same fund as is the salary of county clerk; provided further, that in such years as the compilation of a great register of voters is required by law to be made, the county clerk, in counties of this class, shall be and he is hereby allowed the following additional help: One clerk for a period of and not exceeding six months, whose salary is hereby fixed at one hundred and twenty-five ($125) dollars per month; four clerks, for a period of and not exceeding four months, whose salaries are hereby Counties of fixed at one hundred ($100) dollars each per month. Such third class. clerks shall be appointed by the county clerk of such counties and during their respective periods of employment their salaries shall be paid by such county in equal monthly installments at the same time and in the same manner and out of the same fund as is the salary of the county clerk of such counties. 2. The sheriff, four thousand ($4,000) dollars per annum; pro- Sheriff, and vided, that there shall be and hereby is allowed to the sheriff deputies. one undersheriff, whose salary is hereby fixed at the sum of two thousand four hundred ($2,400) dollars per annum; one chief jailer, whose salary is hereby fixed at the sum of fifteen hundred ($1,500) dollars per annum; two assistant jailers, whose salaries are hereby fixed at the sum of twelve hundred ($1,200) dollars per annum each; five deputies, whose salaries are hereby fixed at the sum of twelve hundred dollars per annum each, and a jail matron, whose salary is hereby fixed at six hundred dollars per annum; the undersheriff, chief jailer, assistant jailers and five deputies herein provided for shall be appointed by the sheriff of said county, and the jail matron shall be appointed by the sheriff; provided, that for the period prior to twelve o'clock meridian on the first Monday after the first day of January, nineteen hundred and three, said matron shall be appointed by the board of supervisors, and as to said office and appointment this subdivision shall take effect immediately; and their salaries shall be paid by said county in equal monthly installments, at the same time and in the same manner and out of the same fund as the salary of the sheriff; provided, that in counties of this class the sheriff shall be allowed no compensation or profit for feeding prisoners in the county jail, but that he shall file, monthly, with the county auditor, a verified statement, showing the names of persons and amounts paid to each for expense of feeding such prisoners, and the sheriff shall thereupon pay over to the county treasurer, for the use of the county, any difference between the amount allowed for such purpose by the supervisors and the amount actually expended by him therefor. The sheriff shall also receive the amount of money necessarily expended by him in serving all process and notices, and all expenses necessarily incurred by him in the pursuit of criminals within his county, and the same shall be a charge against the county, and allowed as such by the board of supervisors, and paid as other county charges are paid. and depu 3. The recorder, four thousand dollars per annum; provided, Recorder, that in counties of this class there shall be and there hereby is ties. allowed to the recorder the following deputies and copyists, who shall be appointed by the recorder of said county, and shall be paid salaries and compensation as follows: One chief deputy, at a salary of eighteen hundred dollars per annum; one index deputy whose salary is hereby fixed at fifteen hundred dollars per annum; two deputies, whose salaries are hereby fixed at the sum of twelve hundred dollars per annum each, and one mortgage deputy, whose salary is hereby fixed at third class. Counties of twelve hundred dollars per annum; provided further, that the chief deputy, index deputy, two deputies, and one mortgage deputy herein provided for shall be appointed by the recorder of said county, and their salaries shall be paid by said county in equal monthly installments at the same time and in the same manner and out of the same fund as the salary of the recorder; provided further, that in counties of this class the recorder shall be entitled to the actual cost incurred by him for the recording of all papers and documents in his office not exceeding six and one half cents per folio for each paper or document so recorded; and provided further, that said recorder shall file monthly, with the county auditor, a verified statement, showing in detail the persons and the amounts paid to each for such recording. Auditor, ties. 4. The auditor, thirty-six hundred dollars per annum; proand depu- vided, that in counties of this class there shall be and hereby is allowed to the auditor one chief deputy, who shall be appointed by the auditor of said county, and whose salary is hereby fixed at the sum of eighteen hundred dollars per annum; one deputy, who shall be appointed by the auditor of such county, and whose salary is hereby fixed at the sum of twelve hundred dollars per annum; one clerk, whose salary is hereby fixed at the sum of nine hundred dollars per annum, and such additional assistance as the auditor may appoint, and whose compensation shall not in the aggregate exceed the sum of five hundred dollars per annum; and provided, that the auditor shall file with the county clerk a verified statement, showing in detail the amounts paid, and the persons to whom said compensation is paid, for such extra assistance as aforesaid. The salaries herein provided for shall be paid by the said county in equal monthly installments, at the same time and in the same manner, and out of the same fund as the salary of the auditor. Treasurer, and deputies. Tax col lector, and 5. The treasurer, three thousand six hundred dollars per annum; provided, that in counties of this class there shall be and hereby is allowed to the treasurer one chief deputy, whose salary is hereby fixed at the sum of eighteen hundred dollars per annum, and one deputy, whose salary is hereby fixed at the sum of twelve hundred dollars per annum, which sums shall be paid by said county in equal monthly installments, at the same time, and in the same manner, and out of the same fund as the salary of the treasurer; provided, that the chief deputy and the deputy herein provided for, shall be appointed by the treasurer of such counties. 6. The tax collector, three thousand dollars per annum; deputies. provided, that in counties of this class there shall be and there hereby is allowed to the tax collector one chief deputy, whose salary is hereby fixed at the sum of eighteen hundred dollars per annum, and two deputies, whose salaries are hereby fixed at the sum of twelve hundred dollars each per annum; provided further, that there shall be and there hereby is allowed to the tax collector one extra deputy for the month of April of each year, whose salary shall be one hundred dollars for such |