of costs allowed and certified by the court to the auditor of his county, and such auditor shall audit the same and draw his warrant therefor upon the treasury of the county from which such action was removed; and such auditor shall forward to said treasurer and auditor of the county from which said action was transferred, as aforesaid, a certified copy of the total amount of costs allowed by the court, giving each item as certified to him by the county clerk and the court, and the auditor receiving such certified copy of said costs allowed shall enter the same in his books as a charge against the treasury of his county; and the county treasurer of the county from which said action was removed must, immediately upon presentation, pay said warrant out of the general fund of said county; or, if at the date of presentation there is not sufficient money in the said general fund to pay the same, he must indorse upon said warrant "not paid for want of funds," and said warrant must be registered and shall draw interest at the same rate, and be paid in the same manner, as though it had been drawn by the auditor of the county where the indictment was found. Act takes effect. SEC. 228. Any provision of this act creating a county office in any county shall not (except for election purposes) take effect prior to the first Monday after the first day of January, eighteen hundred and eighty-five. Present incumbents not affected. SEC. 229. The provisions of this act, so far as it relates to the fees and salaries of all officers named, except justices of the peace and constables, shall not affect the present incumbents; provided, that when the salary of any such officer, or fees in lieu of such salary, is not fixed by law, the same shall, as to such officer, take effect immediately. Supervisors to designate class. SEC. 230. Counties created or organized after the passage and approval of this act shall imme diately come under and be governed by its provisions, so far as the same are applicable thereto; provided, that when the population of any existing county shall have been reduced, by reason of the creation of any new county from the territory thereof, below the class and rank first assumed hereunder, it shall be the duty of the board of supervisors of such county to designate by order the class to which such county has been reduced by reason thereof, and such county shall theroafter enter the list of such class; provided further, that the salary of county officers shall in no way be affected by reason of such division of the county or order of the board of supervisors for the term for which they were elected and shall have qualified; provided further, that all newly created counties shall, for the purpose of fixing the salaries and fees of county and township officers, enter the class of counties having a population of five thousand and under fifty-three hundred, and shall be so classified until classified by a census as by this act provided. SEC. 231. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent with this act are hereby repealed. [See Statutes and Amendments, 1883, 299.] 878 |