Sec. 7. Whenever any certificate or receipt is issued by any officer of such city or city and county, other than the treasurer thereof as herein provided, he shall state therein the day and hour of the delivery to him of the treasurer's receipt, the nature of the service therein described, and the amount charged therefor, and the name of the person by whom such receipt is delivered to him, and shall make corresponding entries on the stub to which such certificate or receipt is attached.

Sec. 8. On the first day of each month the treasurer of such city or city and county must make to the auditor or other proper officer thereof a report, under oath, of all moneys received by him, as provided in this act, during the preceding month, showing the date and number of the certificate on which the money was received, the amount of each payment, and by whom paid, and the nature of the service, and the name and official designation of the officer performing the service; and at the same time, or oftener if required by the auditor so to do, exhibit to the auditor all official certificates received by him during the previous month, and all official receipts remaining in his hands unused or not issued at the close of business on the last day of the preceding month.

Sec. 9. On the first day of each month every officer of such city or city and county authorized by law to charge any fee, commission, percentage, allowance, or compensation whatsoever must make to the auditor a report, under oath, of all official certificates and receipts issued by him during the preceding month, showing the date and number of each certificate and receipt, to whom issued, the nature of the service for which the charge was made, and the amount of such charge; and must at the same time exhibit to the auditor or other proper officer, or oftener if required so to do, all treasurer's receipts deposited with him during the preceding month, and all official certificates and receipts remaining in his hands unused or not issued at the close of business on the last day of each preceding month.

Sec. 10. Upon receiving the reports prescribed by sections eight and nine of this act, the auditor or other proper officer of such city or city and county shall examine and settle the accounts of

each officer thereof, and apportion such moneys to the fund or funds to which it is appropriated by law, and certify such apportionment to the treasurer, who shall thereupon transfer from the "unapportioned fee fund" the amounts so certified, and credit each fund entitled thereto with the proper amount so apportioned.

Sec. 11. Every such officer of said cities or cities and counties who is by law allowed to charge and collect mileage for the service of process, and for like service, shall, at the end of each month, prepare and deliver to the auditor or other proper officer of such city or city and county a statement showing each process served, the title of the cause, the name of the deputy or other subordinate officer by whom served, the number of miles actually traveled in making such service, the exact day when such service was made, and between what hours of said day, which statement shall be verified by the oath of such officer. Such auditor or other proper officer of such city or city and county shall thereupon have the power and he is directed to examine such statement, and issue his warrant upon the treasurer of such city or city and county for such amount of money as shall, in his judgment, fully reimburse such officer for his lawful expenses in making such services, and such warrant shall be paid by such treasurer, without further approval, out of the "unapportioned fee fund"; but no extra mileage shall be charged or allowed for service of two or more processes served on the same trip, by the same deputy or deputies, except for extra mileage actually traveled in serving the additional process, and all mileage charged in violation of this section shall be disallowed by such auditor, or other proper officer, and all amounts disallowed for any reason shall be apportioned to the general fund of such city or city and county. Any officer of said cities or cities and counties who, during the preceding month, performed any service for which he is expressly authorized by law to employ a person, at a certain or stated per diem fixed by law, to perform such service. other than his regular deputies or other assistants, whose salaries are paid from the public treasury of such city or city and county, and a Gen. Laws-29.

person is so employed, and a service is actually performed by such person, and the charge therefor has been paid to the treasurer for the service of the person so employed, such officer shall, at the end of each month, prepare and deliver to the auditor or other proper officer of such city or city and county a statement showing the case or instance in which such service was performed, and for whom performed, the name of the person so employed and by whom the service was performed, the amount of the charge therefor, the time actually employed in performing such service, and the dates of the beginning and ending of the period during which such person was so employed in performing such service, which statement shall be verified by the oath of such officer. Such auditor, or other proper officer, shall thereupon examine such statement, and if he finds the same to be correct, he shall audit and allow the verified demand of such person so employed and performing the service, for the sum or sums so earned by him and paid to the treasurer for such service, and the treasurer shall pay such demand so audited and allowed, without further approval, out of the "unapportioned fee fund."

Sec. 12. This act shall not apply to any payment required to be made on account of the levy or collection or delinquency of any tax upon property, or any poll tax, nor for any city or city and county license, but all such moneys shall be paid to and shall be accounted for in the same manner and by the same officers as are now required by law to charge, receive, collect, or account for the same.

Sec. 13. All acts or parts of acts, in so far as they conflict with the provisions of this act, are hereby repealed.

Sec. 14. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after the first day of January, eighteen hundred and ninety-five.

Sec. 15. For the purpose of carrying out the provisions of said act the treasurer of any such cities, or cities and counties, is hereby authorized to appoint clerks not to exceed three in number, to be known as fee clerks, and said fee clerks shall be allowed a salary of one hundred and fifty dollars per month; they shall give a bond in

whatever sum the said treasurer may exact, and they shall perform such duties as he, the said treasurer, may direct. The salaries of said clerks shall be a charge and paid out of the unapportioned fee fund in this act created. [New section approved March 26, 1895; Stats. 1895, chap. clx. In effect immediately.]

Sec. 16. The boards of supervisors of any such cities, or cities and counties, if in their judgment they deem it necessary, may grant additional assistance in the way of clerks to any of the fee officers whose labor has been increased under said act; and the salaries of such additional clerks shall be allowed and audited out of said unapportioned fee fund. [New section approved March 26, 1895; Stats. 1895, chap. clx. In effect immediately.]

For a reference to prior acts on the subject of fees, see Deering's Annotated Penal Code, p. 500 et seq.

TITLE 85.

FENCES.

The statutes relating to Fences are collected in Deering's Annotated Penal Code, p. 548, et seq.

An act to provide for the issuance and sale of state bonds to create a fund for the construction and furnishing, by the board of state harbor commissioners, of a general ferry and passenger depot in the city and county of San Francisco; to create a sinking fund for the payment of said bonds, and providing for the submission of this act to a vote of the people. [Approved March 17, 1891; Stats. 1891, p. 110.]

Acts relating to, see Political Code, Appendix, title Fire Department, p. 1014.

TITLE 88.

FIRE PATROL.

Acts relating to, see Civil Code, Appendix, title, Fire Patrol, p. 766 et seq.

TITLE 89.

FIRES.

Acts relating to, see Penal Code, Appendix, title, Fire, p. 552.

TITLE 90.

FISCAL YEAR.

An act providing for changing the fiscal year of cities in this state operating under a charter framed under section eight, article eleven, of the constitution.

[Stat. approved March 26, 1895; Stats. 1895, chap. cxxxix.]

The nature of the act appears from the title.

TITLE 91.
FISH.

The general law in relation to the taking of trout and salmon, and the use of poisons or explosive