Folio defined. Officers to fees. against the party from whom they are due; such execution may issue upon the order of the Court made in such action or proceeding, on application of such officer. Such order may be made without notice, upon the certificate of the officer showing the amount of fees due, and from whom due, and such execution may be enforced against the party in the same manner as if issued upon final judgment. SEC. 17. The term "folio," when used in this Act, signifies one hundred words, counting every figure necessarily used as a word; fractions of a folio shall be counted as a folio, when such fraction constitutes the entire draft of the paper, or an excess over previous folios in the same document. SEC. 18. Every officer, upon receiving any fees for official account for duty, shall, on demand therefor, make and deliver to the person paying such fees, an account of such fees, and the services for which such fees were charged; and for refusal or neglect to do so when required, he shall be liable to the party paying the same for double the amount paid. Services ex fees. SEC. 19. No fees shall be charged by any officer for empt from administering and certifying the oath of office, or for recording certificates of elections, or commissions, or official bonds, when required to be recorded. SEC. 20. This Act shall take effect and be in force from and after the first Monday in March, eighteen hundred and seventy-six. Corporate limits defined. CHAP. CXVI.—An Act to amend an Act entitled an Act to amend the charter of the City of Healdsburg, approved March twenty-sixth, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-four. [Approved March 2, 1876.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. Section two of said Act is amended to read as follows: Section 2. The corporate limits of the City of Healdsburg shall be as follows, to wit: Beginning at the section corner to sections sixteen, seventeen, twenty, and twenty-one, township nine N., R. nine W., Mount Diablo meridian; thence running south on the section line seventy-five chains to the road running from Healdsburg to and down Dry Creek, or to the line of H. M. Wilson's land; thence along the north line of H. M. Wilson's and L. A. Norton's land to the northeast corner of L. A. Norton's land, and center of the slough; thence down the center of the slough to the south line of section twenty-one; thence east along said section line to the quarter section corner; thence along the south side and parallel to the railroad track, to the east side of Russian River; thence north to north line of Mattheson Street, in said town, extended; thence west to the east line of University Street; thence north to the north line of said section twenty-one, to the place of beginning. The west line, however, in the foregoing boundary, that is to say, the first course therein given, after running forty hundredths chains, runs west to the corner of the plat of Healdsburg, made by William Mock, County Surveyor, and duly recorded in the Recorder's office of the County of Sonoma; thence south twelve degrees, thirty minutes east, with the west line of said plat or map, until such line intersects said section line; thence south on said section line, as above described. SEC. 2. This Act shall take effect from and after its passage. CHAP. CXVII.-[See volume of Amendments to the Codes.] CHAP. CXVIII.-An Act to regulate salaries and to fix the com- The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. Such salaries, compensation, and fees, shall be allowed to the officers in Contra Costa County, hereinafter named, for services rendered in discharging the duties imposed on them by law, as herein provided; and such officers may severally demand and receive the same in gold coin, in monthly payments, as in this Act provided. SEC. 2. The County Assessor shall receive a salary of two Salary of Asthousand dollars per annum, in full compensation for all sessor. his services, and the services of all deputies employed by him; provided, that he may collect and retain to his own use such fees as are now, or hereafter may be allowed him by law, for the collection of poll-taxes and taxes on personal property, and for the taking of names for the Great Register, and military enrollment. SEC. 3. The District Attorney shall receive a salary of District Atone thousand eight hundred dollars per annum, for all serv- torney. ices required by law to be performed by him, including his services as counsel in the prosecution and defense of all suits to which the county may be a party as plaintiff or defendant, and no other compensation for any of his official duties; provided, he may collect and retain to his own use such fees as are now or hereafter may be allowed by law for the collection of delinquent accounts under the Act to abate the squirrel nuisance in said county. SEC. 4. The County Clerk shall receive a salary of two Clerk. thousand one hundred dollars per annum for all the duties appertaining to his office, including his services as Clerk of Recorder. Auditor. Sheriff. Tax Collector. Treasurer. Certain offi cers to account for fees. the District Court, County Court, Probate Court, and Board of Supervisors; provided, the Board of Supervisors may, by unanimous vote, allow the payment for deputy service, a sum not to exceed three hundred dollars in the aggregate for any one year. SEC. 5. The County Recorder shall receive a salary of two thousand one hundred dollars per annum for all services to be performed by him by virtue of his office; provided, the Board of Supervisors may, by unanimous vote, allow the payment for deputy service, a sum not to exceed three hundred dollars in the aggregate for any one year. SEC. 6. The County Auditor shall receive a salary of nine hundred dollars per annum for all services to be performed by him by virtue of his office. SEC. 7. The Sheriff shall receive a salary of four thousand two hundred and fifty dollars per annum for all services required to be performed by him by law in the county; provided, that the Sheriff may, in addition to the salary herein provided, charge and receive for his own use such fees as are now or hereafter may be allowed by law or by the Board of Supervisors for services which may be performed by him out of the County of Contra Costa; and provided, also, that the Sheriff may charge and receive such additional fees to his own use as are allowed by law for keeper's fees, for holding personal property under attachment or execution, and also such sums as shall be necessarily disbursed by him in keeping and conveying prisoners to the County Jail or elsewhere, when acting under the order of a Judge or Court of competent jurisdiction; and provided further, that the Sheriff may also receive to his own use such fees as are now or hereafter may be allowed by law, payable by the State for the transportation of insane persons to the Insane Asylum, and for the transportation of prisoners to the State Prison. SEC. 8. The Tax Collector shall receive a salary of one thousand dollars per annum for all services and duties appertaining to his office. SEC. 9. The County Treasurer shall receive a salary of one thousand eight hundred dollars per annum, and no other compensation; provided, that the Treasurer may receive to his own use all fees which are now or hereafter may be allowed by law and payable out of the State treasury, for mileage and expenses in making settlement with the State Treasurer, not including any commissions allowed on such settlement. SEC. 10. It shall be the duty of the County Clerk, County Recorder, Sheriff, Tax Collector, Treasurer, Auditor, County Assessor, and District Attorney to charge and collect, in advance, the fees allowed to those officers by law for their services, and to account for and pay over the same to the County Treasurer on the first Monday in each month, and at the time of making such payment each of the officers named in this section shall make duplicate statements of the amount of fees received during the preceding month, and from whom received. One of such statements shall be filed in the office of the County Treasurer, the other in the office of the County Auditor, together with the Treasurer's receipt indorsed thereon, or annexed thereto. draw war rants. SEC. 11. The County Auditor of said county shall audit, Auditor to on the first Monday of each and every month, the salary of the County Clerk, Sheriff, Recorder, Auditor, Tax Collector, Assessor, District Attorney, and County Treasurer. He shalĺ ascertain from the Treasurer, on said first Monday in each month, the amount of gold coin available in the Salary Fund, and amount of gold coin in the General Fund subject to transfer to said Salary Fund as hereinafter provided in this Act, and shall draw his warrant thereon, in favor of each of the officers named, in such proportion as each respective monthly salary bears to the aggregate of all their monthly salaries. He shall then draw his warrant on the General Fund for the remainder due such officer respectively for the said month, and such warrants shall be paid on presentation to the Treasurer, out of the said funds respectively; but no such warrants shall be drawn in favor of any officer until he shall have filed the statements and duplicates required in the preceding section. fees. SEC. 12. The County Treasurer of Contra Costa County Manner of shall keep in the treasury a Salary Fund, and shall place to crediting the credit of that fund all fees of office which shall be paid Treasurer to into the county treasury as provided in this Act, and shall pay salaries. pay the warrants issued to the several officers specified in this Act, in payment of their salary; provided, that when there shall be an excess in said fund of more money than shall be sufficient to pay the salaries of all such officers for three months ensuing, such excess shall be placed to the credit of the General Fund of the county. And when at any time the money in the treasury to the credit of the Salary Fund shall be insufficient to pay the salaries of all the officers specified in this Act, as herein provided, the Treasurer shall transfer from the General Fund, from time to time, of money in the General Fund not otherwise appropriated, as the same shall be required, sufficient funds to pay the salaries of the officers named in this Act, as the same shall become due and payable, as in this Act provided. SEC. 13. No officer herein named shall receive to his own use any compensation for official services performed by him, except as in this Act provided. SEC. 14. This Act shall take effect on and after the first Monday of March, eighteen hundred and seventy-six. Corporate powers. CHAP. CXIX.-An Act to reincorporate Salinas City. [Approved March 2, 1876.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. The corporation or body politic and corporate now existing and known as Salinas City shall remain and continue to be a body politic and corporate, in name and in fact by the name of Salinas City, and by that name shall have perpetual succession, may sue and defend in all Courts and places, and in all matters and proceedings whatever, and may have and use a common seal, and the same may alter at pleasure; and may purchase, receive by donation, gift, or otherwise, and hold and enjoy real estate and personal property, and sell, convey, and dispose of the same Boundaries for the common benefit. The boundaries of Salinas City of corporate shall be as follows: Commencing at a point, north nine and limits. Government, in whom vested. one-half degrees west, sixty-nine chains, and twenty-eight links from the middle point of the intersection of Main and Gabilan Streets of Salinas City, magnetic variation, being sixteen degrees east, thence north, eighty and one-half degrees east, sixty-nine chains and twenty-eight links, to station at northeastern corner of city limits; thence running south nine and one-half degrees east, one hundred and thirty-eight chains and fifty-six links, to station at southeastern corner of city limits; thence running south eighty and one-half degrees west, one hundred and thirty-eight chains and fifty-six links to station at southwestern corner of city limits; thence running north nine and one-half degrees west, one hundred and thirty-eight chains and fiftysix links to station at northwestern corner of city limits; thence running north eighty and one-half degrees east, sixtynine chains and twenty-eight links to place of beginning; thence commencing on the west line of the county road, leading from Salinas City to Santa Rita, where the same is crossed by the northern boundary of the city, as above established, north, along the western line of said road, to a point opposite the northern line of Sherwood Park; thence easterly, along the northern boundary of Sherwood Park, to the northeastern corner thereof; thence south, along the eastern boundary of said Sherwood Park, to the southeast corner of said park; thence south, prolonged in a straight line, until the same intersects the northern line of Salinas City, as herein before established. SEC. 2. The government of said city shall be vested in a Mayor, a Common Council-to consist of six members, a City Treasurer, who shall be City Collector, a City Assessor, who shall be City Clerk, a City Marshal, who shall be City Pound-keeper and Commissioner of Streets, and such policemen as the Mayor and Common Council may appoint. The Mayor and members of the Common Council shall receive no compensation for their services, neither shall they, or either of them, or any subordinate officer of the city govern |