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§§ 3187-3188. COUNTY RECORDER. Tit. XII, Ch. 5.
CHAPTER 5.
COUNTY RECORDER.
SECTION 3187. Fees to be reported and paid to county—compensation.
1 The recorder shall report quarterly, under oath, to the board of
2 supervisors, on blanks furnished by the auditor, all fees collected by
3 him, and certify under oath that he has collected all fees for recording
4 instruments provided by law; shall pay quarterly into the county
5 treasury all fees received by him, and make annual settlement with
6 the board of supervisors on the first Monday of January of each year.
7 Each county recorder shall receive for his services the following com-
8 pensation : In counties having a population of less than fifteen thou-
9 sand, sixteen hundred dollars ; in counties having a population of fifteen
10 thousand and less than twenty thousand, seventeen hundred dol-
11 lars; in counties having a population of twenty thousand and less
12 than twenty-five thousand, eighteen hundred dollars ; in counties hav-
13 ing a population of twenty-five thousand and less than thirty thousand,
14 nineteen hundred dollars; in counties having a population of thirty
15 thousand and less than thirty-five thousand, two thousand dollars ; in
16 counties having a population of thirty-five thousand and less than forty
17 thousand, twenty-one hundred dollars; in counties having a popula-
18 tion of forty thousand and less than fifty thousand, twenty-two hun-
19 dred dollars; in counties having a population of fifty thousand and
20 less than sixty thousand, twenty-three hundred dollars; in counties
21 having a population of sixty thousand and less than seventy thousand,
22 twenty-four hundred dollars; in counties having a population of sev-
23 enty thousand and less than ninety thousand, twenty-five hundred dol-
24 lars; in counties having a population of ninety thousand and over,
25 thirty-one hundred dollars. In counties where a recorder's office is
26 kept in two different places the county recorder shall receive five hun-
27 dred dollars in addition to the compensation as fixed by the above
28 schedule in this section. Any increase in salaries provided for in
29 this act [38 G. A., ch. 293] shall not apply after June thirtieth, nine-
30 teen hundred twenty-three.
[C, '51, §§ 211-213; R., '60, §§ 422-424; C, '73, § 3792; C,
'97, § 495 ; S. S., '15, § 495 ; 38 G. A., ch. 23, § 1 ; 38 G.
A., ch. 293, §§ 3, 6; 39 G. A., ch. 74, § 1.]
SEC 3188. Deputy recorders.
1 Each county recorder may, in writing, with the consent of the
2 board of supervisors, appoint one or more deputies not holding a county
3 office, for whose acts he shall be responsible and from whom he shall
4 require a bond, which bond shall be approved by the officer who has
5 the approval of the principal's bond.. Such appointment may be re-
6 voked in writing, such appointment and revocation shall be filed and
7 kept in the auditor's office. The person or persons thus bonded shall
8 qualify by taking the same oath as his principal, indorsed upon the
9 certificate of appointment. The deputy, in the absence or disability
10 of his principal, may perform all the duties of the principal pertaining
11 to his office. He shall receive a salary of not less than fifty per cent
12 of that of his principal, nor more than fifteen hundred dollars per
13 year, to be fixed by the board of supervisors, and in case additional