FEES OF TAX COLLECTOR. Fees of Tax SEC. 3. The Sheriff shall be ex officio Tax Collector of the County of Sonoma, and must receive for his own use and Collector. benefit, for the collection of all State and county taxes, (except taxes for school purposes) one per cent. in gold and silver coin on the full amount of said taxes, which shall be compensation in full for all such service. The said Sheriff, under oath, must make a full and complete report of each class and kind of fees collected during the quarter to the Board of Supervisors, at each regular meeting of said Board; said report must include every sum of money received by himself as Sheriff, or by each of his deputies and UnderSheriff, from all sources, and a willful failure or neglect to make such report is a misdemeanor, punishable by removal from office. COUNTY RECORDER. Recorder. SEC. 4. The County Recorder of the County of Sonoma Fees of shall be allowed to charge and receive the fees hereinafter County specified, seventy-five per cent. of which he may retain and keep for his own use as compensation in full for all services now required of him by law, or that may hereafter be required of him by the Board of Supervisors: For recording every instrument, paper, or notice, twelve cents per folio; for filing every instrument, for recording and making the necessary entries therein, including certificate of record, twenty-five cents; for copies of every record, per folio, twelve cents; for indexing every instrument, paper, or notice, as required by law, for each name, ten cents; for every certificate under seal, forty cents; for every entry of discharge of mortgage or other instrument on margin of record, indexing the same, fifty cents; for searching records and files of each year in his office, when required, twenty-five cents; for abstract or certificate of title, when required, for each conveyance or incumbrance certified, fifty cents; for recording every town plat or map, for every course, six cents; for figures and lettering plats and maps, per folio, twenty-five cents; for topography for every creek, river, road, or chain of mountains represented on the map, fifteen cents, provided, the fees for recording any town plat shall not exceed the sum of one hundred dollars; for taking and writing acknowledgments, including seal, for the first signature, fifty cents; for each additional name, twenty-five cents; for recording marriage license and certificate, one dollar; for filing and keeping each paper not required to be recorded, twenty cents; for recording transcript and other services in estray cases, one dollar; for recording brands and marks, fifty cents. It shall be the duty of the County Recorder, under oath, to make a full and complete report to the Board of Supervisors at each of their regular quarterly meetings, containing all fees and sums of money collected by himself or his deputies during the preceding quarter, and a willful neglect or failure to make such report is misdemeanor, punishable by removal. from office. Salary of Duty of Fees of Clerk Court. SEC. 5. The County Auditor shall receive a salary of nine hundred dollars per annum (in gold and silver) for all services required of him by law. SEC. 6. The compensation of County Recorder and County Auditor, and his deputies, from all sources, shall not exceed four thousand six hundred dollars, and all over that sum, arising from fees and allowances collected in his office, shall be paid into the county treasury. COUNTY CLERK. SEC. 7. The County Clerk, in Sonoma County, shall act as Clerk of the District Court, County Court, Probate Court, Clerk of the Board of Supervisors and Board of Equalization, and shall discharge such other duties as now devolve upon him by law, or may hereafter be required of him by the Board of Supervisors, and shall receive the fees hereinafter specified; and must keep a book in his office showing the full amount and the source of all fees and sums of money collected in his office by himself and his deputies, and must report the same, under oath, at the end of every quarter, to the Board of Supervisors; and a willful neglect or failure to make such report is a misdemeanor, punishable by removal from office. CLERK OF THE DISTRICT COURT. For entering each suit on the Clerk's Register of Actions of District and making the necessary entries therein during the trial, fifty cents for the first folio, and for each subsequent folio, twelve cents; for issuing every writ or process, under seal, forty cents, except for the writ of habeas corpus; for issuing each subpoena for one or more witnesses, twenty cents; for filing each paper, ten cents; for entering every motion and order, rule, default, discontinuance, dismissal, or nonsuit, twenty cents; for entering every cause on the calendar and making a copy of the same for the bar, for each term of the Court, twenty cents; for calling and swearing every jury, forty cents; for receiving and entering each verdict of a jury, twenty-five cents; for entering every final judgment, for the first folio, fifty cents, for each subsequent folio, twelve cents; for filing judgment roll, twenty-five cents; for each entry of judgment on judgment docket, twenty cents; for each entry of satisfaction of judgments, twenty-five cents; for administering every oath or affirmation, fifteen cents; for copy of any proceeding, record, or paper, for each folio, twelve cents; for every certificate, under seal, forty cents; for issuing every commission to take testimony, forty cents; for writing down testimony of witnesses during the trial, for each folio, fifteen cents, to be paid by the party requiring the same; for issuing every execution or other final process, under seal, forty cents; for issuing every copy of decree, or order of sale of mortgaged property, for each folio, twelve cents; for receiving and filing every remittitur from Supreme Court, and accompanying papers, forty cents; for approval and justification of each bond, required by law, forty cents; and for taking testimony thereon, fifteen cents per folio; for acknowledgment of deed or other instrument, including all writing and the seal, for the first name thereto, fifty cents, for each additional name, twenty-five cents; for indexing every suit in the District Court in general index as required by law, for each name, fifteen cents; for filing and entering papers on transfer of case from other Courts, indexing included, two dollars; for transmission of files, or transfer of cases to other Courts, including certificate of order of transfer, one dollar and fifty cents; for searching records or files of each year, except for suitors or their attorneys, twentyfive cents; for services under the Act to provide for the reclamation of salt marsh and tide lands, approved April twenty-seventh, eighteen hundred and sixty-three, he shall receive the fees therein prescribed; when the Court is setting as a Court of criminal jurisdiction, the Clerk shall receive, for the trial of each issue, when the charge is felony, three dollars; and for a trial of each issue, when the charge is misdemeanor, two dollars; he shall receive no other fees in a criminal action or proceeding, except twelve cents per folio for copies of papers and for taking down testimony when required. COUNTY CLERK. Clerk. For issuing marriage licenses, one dollar; for drawing an Fees of affidavit, deposition, or other paper, per folio, fifteen cents; for County filing transcript of judgments of Justices' Court, for docketing the same and issuing execution thereon, two dollars; for recording certificates of incorporation, when recording is required by law, twelve cents per folio; for recording official bonds when required by law, twelve cents per folio; for indexing same, twenty cents; for recording testimony and commitment upon examination of an insane person, when it is ascertained by the County or Probate Judge the person committed has sufficient property wherewith to pay the expenses of his or her commitment, fifteen cents per folio; for all other services, the same fees as are allowed to the Clerk of the District Court for similar services. CLERKS OF THE PROBATE COURT. For issuing letters testamentary or of administration, Fees of forty cents; for all certificates, under seal, twenty-five cents; Clerks of for writing and posting notices, for each copy, twenty-five Court. cents; for recording wills and other instruments required by law to be recorded, for each folio, twelve cents; for filing each paper, ten cents; for copies of all papers, twelve cents per folio; for issuing each notice for publication, twenty-five cents; for all other services the same fees as are allowed the Clerk of the District Court for like services. CLERK OF THE COUNTY COURT. Fees of Clerk of For filing all papers sent on appeal from a Justice's Court, in each cause, and making the necessary entries concerning Court. County Compensation of County Clerk and deputies limited. the same, one dollar and fifty cents; for all other services the same fees as are allowed in the District Court for similar services. CLERK OF THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS AND BOARD OF EQUAL- He shall receive such compensation for his services as the Board of Supervisors shall direct, not to exceed three hundred dollars per annum. SEC. 8. The compensation of the County Clerk and his deputies, from all sources, shall not exceed four thousand six hundred dollars; and all over that sum arising from fees and allowances collected in his office shall be paid into the county treasury. SEC. 9. All Acts and parts of Acts, so far as they conflict with the provisions of this Act, are hereby repealed. SEC. 10. This Act shall be in force from and after the first Monday in March, A. D. eighteen hundred and seventyeight. Fees of the Peace. CHAP. CXII. An Act relative to Justices' fees, and amendatory of an Act, approved April fourth, eighteen hundred and seventy, entitled an Act to amend an Act entitled an Act to regulate fees of office, approved March fifth, eighteen hundred and seventy. [Approved March 1, 1878.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. Section one of said Act is hereby amended to Justices of read as follows: Section 1. Section twenty-six of said Act is hereby amended so as to read as follows: Section 26. Fees of Justices of the Peace in the several counties of this State: For filing each paper, twenty-five cents; issuing any writ or process by which suit is commenced, fifty cents; for entering every cause upon his docket, fifty cents; for issuing subpœna, twenty-five cents; for administering an oath or affirmation, twenty-five cents; for each certificate, twenty-five cents; for issuing writ of attachment, or of arrest, or for the delivery of property, fifty cents; for entering any final judgment, for the first folio, one dollar, for each additional folio, twenty cents; for taking or approving [any bond] or undertaking directed by law to be taken or approved by him, fifty cents; for taking justification to a bond, fifty cents; for swearing a jury, fifty cents; for taking deposition, per folio, twenty cents; for entering satisfaction of a judgment, fifty cents; for copy of a judgment, order, docket, proceeding, or paper in his office, for. each folio, twenty cents; for issuing commission to take testimony, fifty cents; for issuing supersedeas to an execution, fifty cents; for making up and transmitting transcript and papers on appeal, one dollar Justices of and fifty cents; for issuing search warrants, fifty cents; Fees of for issuing an execution, fifty cents; for celebrating mar- the Peace. riage and returning certificate thereof to the Recorder, five dollars; for all services and proceedings before a Justice of the Peace in a criminal action or proceeding, whether on examination or trial, three dollars, provided, in the County of Los Angeles the fees in a criminal action shall be collected from the defendant, if convicted, but shall in no case become a county charge; for taking bail after commitment in criminal cases, one dollar; for entering cause without process, one dollar; for entering judgment by confession and only on affidavit as required in District Court, three dollars; for entering every motion, rule, exception, order, or default, twenty-five cents; for taking an acknowledgment of any instrument, for the first name, fifty cents; for each additional name, twenty-five cents; for all services connected with the posting of estrays, including the transcript for the Recorder, two dollars. In cases before Justices of the Peace when the venue shall be changed, the Justice before whom the action shall be brought, for all services rendered in the making up and transmission of the transcript and papers, shall receive two dollars, and the Justice before whom the trial shall take place shall receive the same fees as if the action had been commenced before him. All fees of Justices of the Peace, including those on trial and those on appeal, must be paid before the Justice shall be compelled to forward any papers on appeal. For all services. appertaining to the Coroner's office which the Coroner is unable to attend to, the Justice of the Peace shall receive the same fees as are allowed the Coroner for similar services; provided, that in the County of Los Angeles no Justice of the Peace shall be entitled to receive, in full compensation for all services rendered by him in criminal cases, a sum exceeding three hundred dollars in the aggregate per annum. For transcript of judgment per folio, twenty cents; provided, that in the Counties of Amador and Sierra, Justices of the Peace may lawfully charge, demand, and receive the fees allowed. by an Act to regulate fees of office, approved April tenth, eighteen hundred and fifty-five; provided further, that in the Counties of Alameda, Santa Clara, Santa Cruz, Monterey, and Sutter, each Justice of the Peace shall be allowed, in a civil action before him, the following fees, and no other: For all services required to be performed by him before trial, two dollars, and two dollars additional for each writ of attachment or replevin; and for the trial and all proceedings subsequent thereto, including all affidavits, swearing witnesses and jury, and the entry of judgment and issue of execution thereon, three dollars, and twenty-five cents for each hour actually occupied by the trial of each cause; 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 papers of appeal, one dollar; for copies of papers or docket, per folio, fifteen cents; for issuing a search warrant, to be paid by the party demanding the same, fifty cents; for celebrating |