and twenty dollars each. He may appoint, to serve from January first to May first in each legislative year, one engineer at a monthly salary of one hundred and fifty dollars; one fireman at a monthly salary of one hundred and five dollars; one electrician at a monthly salary of one hundred and fifty dollars; two elevator attendants at a monthly salary of ninety dollars each, and two telephone exchange operators at a monthly salary of sixty dollars each. He may also appoint one telephone exchange operator at a monthly salary of sixty dollars to serve two months each year while the legislature is not in session. The salaries of all such appointees shall be paid at the same time and in the same manner as the salaries of other state officers. [New section added April 1, 1911; Stats. 1911, p. 573.]

Assistant gardeners and laborers.

§ 719. The superintendent may employ such competent assistant gardeners at a salary of one hundred dollars per month and such laborers, porters and other help for the proper conduct of the capitol and grounds at three dollars per diem, as may be deemed necessary by the superintendent and the board of examiners, which wages shall be paid only from money appropriated for such purpose. Such appointees shall have the powers of peace officers. [New section added April 1, 1911; Stats. 1911, p. 573.]

Salaries of superior judges.

§ 737. The annual salaries of the judges of the superior court of the city and county of San Francisco, of the county of Los Angeles and of the county of Alameda are six thousand dollars, of the counties of Riverside, Contra Costa, San Joaquin, Sacramento, Marin, Santa Clara, San Diego, Fresno and San Bernardino, five thousand dollars, of the counties of Santa Cruz, San Mateo, Yuba, Sutter, Butte, Nevada, Sonoma, Colusa, Monterey, San Luis Obispo, Shasta, Siskiyou, Santa Barbara, Mendocino, Tehama, Kern, Placer, Humboldt, Tulare, Solano, Yolo, Mariposa, Ventura, Mono, Kings, Amador, Calaveras, Stanislaus, El Dorado, Merced, Madera, Tuolumne, Orange, Glenn, Napa and San Benito, four thousand dollars, and of the county of Alpine, two thousand dollars; one-half of which shall be paid by the state and the other half thereof by the county of which the judge is elected or appointed. [Amendment approved February 17, 1911; Stats. 1911, p. 63.]

Salaries of officers of supreme court.

§ 739. The annual salaries of the officers connected with the supreme court are as follows: The reporter of the decisions of the supreme court and of the district courts of appeal, twenty-five hundred dollars; the assistant reporters of the decisions of the supreme court and of the distriet courts of appeal, not exceeding three in number, one at twentyfour hundred dollars and two at twelve hundred dollars each; one phonographic reporter, three thousand dollars, and one phonographic reporter, twenty-four hundred dollars; two secretaries of the court, each, twenty

four hundred dollars; each bailiff eighteen hundred dollars; the librarian, fifteen hundred dollars. [Amendment approved March 9, 1911; Stats. 1911, p. 321.]

Officers of district courts of appeal.

§ 758. Each of the three courts of appeal may employ and appoint the following officers of their respective courts, whose salaries shall be as follows: One clerk at twenty-seven hundred dollars per annum; one deputy clerk at two thousand dollars per annum; one phonographic reporter, as provided in section 759, and one bailiff, at sixteen hundred dollars per annum. [Amendment approved April 3, 1911; Stats. 1911, p. 587.]

Citations. Cal. 157/424.

§ 769.

Citations. Cal. 157/423.

Governor may commission notaries public.

§ 791. The governor may appoint and commission such number of notaries public for the several counties and cities and counties of this state as he shall deem necessary for the public convenience, except that in cities and counties of the second class the number shall not exceed one hundred. [Amendment approved April 18, 1911; Stats. 1911, p. 941.] Citations. App. 13/461.

§ 792.

Citations. App. 13/462.

§ 794.

Citations. App. 8/15; 9/130; (subd. 7) 13/462.

§ 801.

Citations. App. 9/128, 129.

§ 811.

Citations. Cal. 158/402.

§ 865.

Citations. App. 9/547.

§ 879.

Citations. App. 9/161.

Oath of office, when taken.

§ 907. Whenever a different time is not prescribed by law, the oath of office must be taken, subscribed, and filed within thirty days after the officer has notice of his election or appointment, or before the expiration of fifteen days from the commencement of his term of office,

when no such notice has been given. [Amendment approved March 1, 1911; Stats. 1911, p. 258.]

Citations. App. 9/160.

§ 947.

Citations. App. 9/160.

§ 996.

Citations. App. 9/158, 162; (subd. 1) 9/160, 162; (subd. 9) 9/160, 162.

§ 1001.

Citations. App. 9/158, 160.

§ 1003a.

Citations. App. 9/784, 785.

Conduct of municipal elections.

§ 1044. Except in the particulars or cases otherwise provided for in the constitution or laws of the state or by provisions of a freeholder charter duly adopted or amended pursuant to the constitution of this state, all municipal elections, where the same are held separate from state elections, and all elections held under the authority of section 8 of article 11 of the constitution, to elect boards of freeholders, or to vote upon proposed charters, or upon amendments to existing charters, and all other special elections, including all special elections to vote upon or for or against any proposition or question authorized to be submitted to a vote, shall be conducted under the provisions of sections 1044, 1120, 1121, 1133 and 1151 of this code. [Amendment approved April 12, 1911; Stats. 1911, p. 896.]

Unlawful for election officer to assign compensation until after returns have been sealed.

§ 1072a. It shall be unlawful for any person serving as an election officer, or who has served as an election officer at an election, or who has been appointed to serve as an election officer at any election, to assign or in any manner transfer the compensation which he will reeeive or be entitled to receive, or to have allowed to him for service as an election officer at any precinct, to any person, persons or corporation, until after the full completion of the election at the precinct, or until after the returns of such election from the precinct where he served as an election officer, have been sealed and delivered to the county clerk or registrar of voters, or postmaster or express agent, as provided by section 1264 of the Political Code, and it shall be unlawful for any person, persons or corporation, or their agent or servant, to either directly or indirectly receive any such assignment or transfer, or pay or advance any sum of money whatever, to any such election officer or to any person for the use of such election officer, until said election returns have been sealed and delivered as herein before pro

vided. Any person who shall violate any provision of this section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. [New section approved May 1, 1911; Stats. 1911, p. 1444.]

Board of election commissioners.

§ 1075. The board of supervisors of each county is ex officio the board of election commissioners in and for the county and the common council, or other governing body of a city, is ex officio the board of election commissioners in and for such city; provided, that in any city and county of this state having four hundred thousand or more inhabitants as shown by the last federal census, the board of election commissioners shall consist of four persons, citizens and electors of such city and county, each of whom must be a freeholder, and have been an actual resident of said city and county at least five years preceding his appointment, who shall be appointed by the mayor; provided, that the respective executive committees of the state committees of either of the political parties who may be entitled under the provisions of this act to have members of their party appointed as members of said board of election cominissioners, shall have the right, within ten days after such appointment, to file with the mayor a written protest against the appointment of a member of said board of election commissioners, as having been appointed as one of affiliation with said party, on the grounds that said appointee is not a person of well-known affiliation and standing with said party from which he has been appointed; and the mayor thereupon shall make another appointment in the place of the party against whom the protest has been filed. The members of said commission shall be ineligible to any other office or public employment, elective or appointive, during the term for which they have been appointed and for one year thereafter. Two of the persons so appointed shall be selected from the body of citizens and electors of such city and county, of known affiliation with and belonging to the political party or organization which at the last presidential election held in such city and county, polled within said city and county, the highest number of votes cast for candidates of the political party for presidential electors at such election; and the two remaining members of said board shall be selected from the body of electors of such city and county, of known affiliation with and belonging to the political party which, at the last presidential election held at such city and county, polled within such city and county, the next highest number of votes cast for the candidates for presidential electors of a political party.

The members of said commission shall, every two years, choose one of their number as chairman; in the event of their failure to select a chairman in five ballots, the oldest of said members in point of years shall be chairman.

The persons first appointed as such board of election commissione s shall be appointed on the first Monday of July, 1895, and shall each hold

their office for the term of four years from and after the date of their appointment, except that of those first appointed, two (one belonging to each political party or organization as aforesaid), to be designated by the mayor, shall retire at the end of two years, when their successors shall be appointed by the mayor.

Whenever any vacancy shall occur in the said board, such vacancy shall be filled by appointment as herein prescribed, and the persons so appointed to fill such vacancy shall be selected in the same manner and from the same political party or organization with which his predecessor in office affiliated and belonged at the time of his appointment thereto, and shall hold office for the balance of the unexpired term to which he was appointed. The salary of each member of the board of election commissioners in and for a city and county, having four hundred thousand or more inhabitants as shown by the last federal census shall be seven hundred and fifty dollars per annum, payable, in equal monthly installments, out of the treasury of such city and county, in the same manner as the salaries of other officers of said city and county, are paid. [Amendment approved April 7, 1911; Stats. 1911, p. 727.]

Clerk of board of election commissioners. Oath of office. Deputies and clerks. Power to administer oaths.

§ 1077. The county clerk is ex officio clerk of the board of election commissioners of the county, and the clerk or secretary of the common council or other governing body of a city is ex officio the clerk or secretary of the board of election commissioners of the city; provided, that in cities and counties of this state having four hundred thousand or more inhabitants, the board of election commissioners shall appoint a suitable person, not one of their own number, to act as secretary, at a salary not to exceed two hundred and fifty dollars per month, pay able in the same manner as the salaries of the commissioners are paid. Such secretary shall hold his office during the pleasure of the said board. The secretary of the board of election commissioners shall not, during the term of his office, engage in any other calling or trade, or profession or employment, and shall be ineligible to be a candidate or delegate to any convention which shall nominate candidates for office, and he shall be ineligible to be voted for for, any office while acting as such secretary; and if these provisions of the law are not obeyed, it shall be the duty of the board of election commissioners forthwith to declare his place vacated, and the vacancy shall be filled in the same manner and terms as provided for in the original appointment. Each member of the board of election commissioners, and the secretary elected by said board of election commissioners, shall, within fifteen days after receiving notice of their appointment, take the usual oath of office before any judge of the superior court of said city and county, and said oaths of office shall be filed with the county clerk of said city and county. The board of election commissioners shall have the power to