Representatives are chosen by districts; are one hundred in number, serve two years and receive the same compensation as senators. The Governor receives a salary of $3000. The Secretary of State, Auditor, Treasurer, and Superintendent of Public Instruction receive each $2200. Judges of the Supreme Court receive $4000. The Attorney General receives $1500 salary, and $5 per day in addition for time occupied in courts. District Judges receive $2500. The members of the Board of Public Works in cities receive a salary of not less than $1500, nor more than $2500. Railway Commissioners are paid $3000 each, and necessary expenses. Mine Inspectors receive $1200 a year, with necessary expenses. The Board of Examiners to examine candidates for the office of mine inspector, receive $5 per day, and actual travelling expenses. The Dairy Commissioner receives $1500 a year, and expenses. The Commissioner of Labor Statistics has a salary of $1500. The Inspector of Illuminating Oils is paid by fees received. The salary of the State Librarian is $1200. The salary of the Director of the Weather Service is not to exceed $1500. The salary of the Fish Commissioner is $1200. The State Veterinary Surgeon receives $5 a day, and expenses. The Custodian of Public Buildings has a salary of $1500. The Secretary of the Board of Health has a salary of $1200. The Educational Board of Examiners have actual expenses paid by the state, and the two appointed members receive $3 a day during service. County Officers. The County Attorney receives a salary fixed by the board of supervisors for the county, varying from $500 to $1500. He receives, in addition, a per cent for collecting fines. County Clerks of the District Courts are paid out of fees collected in the office. Clerks in the less populous counties are allowed to retain fees collected in their office to the amount of $1100; all received above this sum they are required to pay into the county treasury. In the more populous counties the limit is $1300 to $1500. The supervisors of the county may increase this sum in counties of more than forty thousand inhabitants. The Sheriff retains out of the fees received by him from $2,300 to $3,000 per annum, according to the population of the county. Members of the Board of Supervisors are paid $4 per day for session work, and $2.50 per day for committee work. They are allowed six cents' mileage, and are not allowed pay for more than twenty days' session work per year, in the less populous counties, nor more than forty days in the more populous. The County Recorder is allowed $1500 from the legal fees of his office. The County Treasurer receives a per cent of the moneys handled by him, but the aggregate sum received cannot exceed certain fixed sums, depending upon the population of the county and the existence of township collectors. The least sum fixed for a treasurer is $1200, and this in counties having township collectors. The largest sum fixed is $1500. This may be increased by the board of supervisors. The County Auditor receives the fees collected in his office. His compensation is limited by the statute to $1200. The supervisors may increase this sum in the more populous counties. The County Surveyor receives $1 per day for his services, and is paid by those who employ him. He is allowed fifty cents for a certified copy of field notes. The Coroner receives $5 for the holding of an inquest, and certain other fees. The County Superintendent of Public Instruction receives $4 per day. The supervisors have power to employ assistants for the various county officers. The maximum salary for an assistant is $600. The supervisors may employ a superintendent of the poor-farm, bridge builders, and such other assistants as the county needs. Towns and Cities. In cities of the second class and incorporated towns the compensation of the Council or Trustees shall not exceed $1 for each member for each meeting, and shall not exceed $50 per year. In cities of the first class the limit is $250. The Mayor of a city or town is paid such a salary as the city or town government may establish by ordinance, and the salary can be neither increased nor diminished during his term of office. Marshals in towns and cities are paid out of fees collected by the courts. Registers in cities receive $2.50 per day. The members of the Board of Public Works in cities receive a salary of not less than $1500, nor more than $2500. Town and city councils have quite a large range of power in the employment and compensation of needed public servants. Townships. — Township Trustees are paid $2 per day for time of actual service, and are allowed special fees for fence-viewing and other services. The Township clerk receives $2 per day, and is allowed fees and five per cent of the money which comes into his hands as treasurer. The Assessor is allowed $2 per day for time of actual service. Justices receive from $600 to $1500 according to the population of the township. Constables, from $500 to $1200. Jurors receive $2 per day, and ten cents mileage. Witnesses in justice's courts receive fifty cents per day and five cents mileage; in a court of record, $1.25 and five cents mileage. For experts the court may allow special compensation. Road Supervisors are paid daily wages fixed by the trustees. School officers, for the most part, serve without pay. Any session of the legislature, or of Congress, in the case of Federal officers, may make changes in the compensation of officers. CHAPTER XIX. -- REFORMS. School Districts. It is a great waste of funds to maintain a school for a half-dozen pupils. In the country it is often difficult to secure more without compelling some to go farther than is convenient. Our square districts are not well adapted to accommodate the public. At the remote corners of these districts there are usually a few families who reside nearly two miles from school, and all send to different schools. It is quite natural for these to combine and try to form a new district. If they succeed they are almost sure to ruin or injure some school already established. There are many townships in the state where life is made wretched, and all the schools greatly injured, by contentions over the location of school-houses. FIG. 4. Suggestions. In some places it has been found more convenient and satisfactory to make a district four miles long and a mile wide, extending a half-mile on each side of a public highway, and all who live on the highway attend the same school. These are called "shoe-string districts." In bad weather one team may carry all to school. A still more convenient form for a district is indicated in Fig. 4. In this district there are five square miles instead of four, and no one on the highway resides more than a mile and a half from the school. Any form other than the inconvenient square makes it desirable to disregard township lines in |