Probation officers in various counties.

§ 19a. In counties of the first class there shall be one probation officer and twenty-nine assistant probation officers and clerks. The salaries of said officers shall be as follows: Probation officer, two hundred dollars per month; two assistant probation officers, each one hundred and fifty dollars per month; nineteen assistant probation officers, each one hundred dollars per month; one assistant probation officer to act as probation officer's bookkeeper, one hundred dollars per month; one assistant probation officer to act as probation officer's clerk, eighty-five dollars per month; three assistant probation officers to act as stenographers to the probation officers in clerical work, each seventy-five dollars per month; one assistant probation officer to act as stenographer, sixty-five dollars per month; one assistant probation officer to act as telephone exchange operator, fifty dollars per month; one assistant probation officer who shall be a physician at one hundred and twenty-five dollars per month.

$196. In counties or cities and counties of the second class there shall be one probation officer and ten assistant probation officers. The salaries of said officers shall be as follows: Probation officer, two hundred and twenty-five dollars per month; two assistant probation officers, each one hundred and seventy-five dollars per month and eight assistant probation officers, at one hundred and twenty-five dollars per month.each.

19c. In counties of the third class there shall be one probation officer and ten assistant probation officers. The salaries of said officers shall be as follows: Probation officer, two hundred twenty-five dollars a month; one assistant at a salary of one hundred seventy-five dollars a month; one assistant at a salary of one hundred sixty dollars a month; one assistant at a salary of one hundred fifty dollars a month; one assistant at a salary of one hundred thirty-five dollars a month; three assistants at a salary of one hundred dollars a month each; two assistants at a salary of eighty-five dollars a month each; one assistant at a salary of seventy-five dollars a month; provided, however, that in the event an adult probation department is created in counties of the third class, from and after the creation of such department and the appointment of an adult probation officer or any deputy or assistant or like officer who shall relieve the probation officer of the adult probation work, the offices of assistant probation officer at a salary of one hundred seventy-five dollars a month and of assistant probation officer at a salary of one hundred sixty dollars a month shall cease and determine and be abolished in counties of this class. [Amended, Statutes 1917, p. 1002.]

$19d. In counties of the fourth class there shall be one probation officer, one assistant probation officer, and one deputy probation officer who shall act as probation officer's clerk. The salaries of said officers shall be as follows: Probation officer, one hundred and fifty dollars per month; assistant probation officer, one hundred dollars per month; and one deputy probation officer to act as probation officer's clerk, seventy-five dollars per month.

$19e. In each of the counties of the sixteenth, twenty-second and twenty-third classes there shall be one probation officer, whose salary

shall be one hundred fifty dollars per month. In counties of the fifth class there shall be one probation officer at one hundred seventy-five dollars per month, one assistant probation officer, whose salary shall be one hundred fifty dollars per month; one assistant probation officer at a salary of one hundred dollars per month, and one assistant probation officer, who shall be a competent stenographer, at a salary of eighty-five dollars per month. In counties of the twenty-third class there shall be one assistant probation officer whose salary shall be fifty dollars per month. In counties of the twenty-second class the probation officer shall perform in addition to his duties as probation officer, the duties of the attendance officer for the schools of the county, and investigator for the board of supervisors on applications for county and state aid, without any additional compensation except his necessary expenses and such mileage as the board of supervisors shall fix and allow in the performance of his duties. [Amended, Statutes 1917, p. 1022.]

§ 19f. In counties of the sixth class there shall be one probation officer and three assistant probation officers. The salaries of such officers shall be as follows: Probation officer, one hundred and seventy-five dollars per month; one assistant probation officer, one hundred and fifty dollars per month; one assistant probation officer, one hundred dollars per month; and one assistant probation officer to act as probation officer's clerk, one hundred dollars per month.

$ 19g. In counties of the seventh class there shall be one probation officer and three assistant probation officers. The salaries of said officers shall be as follows: Probation officer, one hundred and seventy-five dollars per month; one assistant probation officer, one hundred and fifty dollars per month; one assistant probation officer, one hundred and twenty-five dollars per month; and one assistant probation officer, one hundred dollars per month.

§ 19h. In counties of the eighth class there shall be one probation officer and one assistant probation officer. The salaries of said officers shall be as follows: Probation officer, one hundred dollars per month; assistant probation officer, seventy-five dollars per month.

§ 19. In each of the counties of the ninth, twelfth, thirteenth, fifteenth, seventeenth, eighteenth, nineteenth, twenty-sixth, twenty-seventh, thirtythird and thirty-sixth class, there shall be one probation officer whose salary shall be one hundred dollars per month. In counties of the ninth class there shall be two assistant probation officers, whose salaries shall be as follows: One assistant probation officer, whose salary shall be seventy-five dollars per month and one assistant probation officer whose salary shall be fifty dollars per month. In counties of the twelfth class, there shall be one assistant probation officer whose salary shall be seventy-five dellars per month. In counties of the thirteenth class there shall be one assistant probation officer whose salary shall be twenty-five dollars per month. In counties of the eighteenth class there shall be four assistant probation officers whose salaries shall be twenty-five dollars per month each. In counties of the twenty-third class there shall be one assistant probation officer whose salary shall be fifty dollars per month. In counties

of the twenty-sixth class there shall be one assistant probation officer, whose salary shall be sixty dollars per month; provided, that in counties of the twelfth class the probation officer shall, as a part of his duties, and without any additional compensation, except his necessary expenses, do all nvessary work that the board of supervisors of said county may designate or require, in looking after the indigent and poor of said county. [Amended, Statutes 1917, p. 1022.]

§ 19j. In counties of the tenth class there shall be one probation officer whose salary shall be one hundred and sixty-six dollars per month, and one assistant probation officer whose salary shall be seventy-five dollars per month.

§ 19k. In each of the counties of the eleventh, fourteenth and thirtieth class there shall be one probation officer whose salary shall be one hundred twenty-five dollars per month; provided, that in the counties of the eleventh class there shall be an assistant probation officer, whose salary shall be seventy-five dollars per month; and provided, that in counties of the fourteenth class there shall be an assistant probation officer, whose salary shall be fifty dollars per month; and provided, further, that in counties of the thirteenth class the probation officer shall, as a part of his duties, and without any additional compensation, except his necessary expenses, do all necessary work that the board of supervisors of said county may designate or require, in looking after the indigent and poor of said county. [Amended, Statutes 1917, p. 1022.]

$191. In each of the counties of the thirty-second class there shall be one probation officer, whose salary shall be seventy-five dollars per month. [Amended, Statutes 1917, p. 1022.]

$ 19. In each of the counties of the twentieth class there shall be one probation officer, whose salary shall be one hundred dollars per month. [Enacted, Statutes 1917, p. 1022.]

§ 19m. In each of the counties of the thirty-ninth, fortieth and fortysecond classes, there shall be one probation officer, whose salary shall be fifty dollars per month. [Amended, Statutes 1917, p. 1022.]

$19mm. In each of the counties of the twenty-first class there shall be one probation officer, whose salary shall be sixty-five dollars per month. [Enacted, Statutes 1917, p. 1022.]

§ 19n. In each of the counties of the twenty-fourth, twenty-eighth, twenty-ninth, thirty-seventh, forty-first, forty-third, forty-fifth, forty-sixth, forty-seventh, forty-ninth, fifty-first, fifty-second, fifty-third, fifty-fourth, and fifty-sixth class, there shall be one probation officer, whose salary shall be thirty-five dollars per month.

$ 19nn. In each of the counties of the forty-third class there shall be one probation officer, whose salary shall be fifty dollars per month. [Enacted, Statutes 1917, p. 1022.]

§ 190. In counties of the twenty-fifth class there shall be one probation officer, whose salary shall be one hundred fifty dollars per month, and one assistant probation officer whose salary shall be seventy-five dollars per month. [Amended, Statutes 1917, p. 1022.]

§ 19p. In each of the counties of the thirty-first class there shall be one probation officer whose salary shall be sixty dollars per month.

§ 19q. In counties of the thirty-fourth class there shall be one probation officer whose salary shall be ninety dollars per month.

§ 19r. In counties of the thirty-fifth class, there shall be one probation officer who shall maintain an office in the court house at the county seat. The salary of said probation officer shall be one hundred dollars per month. $ 19s. In each of the counties of the forty-fourth and fifty-fifth class, there shall be one probation officer whose salary shall be ten dollars per month.

§ 19t. In each of the counties of the forty-eighth and fiftieth classes. there shall be one probation officer whose salary shall be twenty-five dollars per month.

§ 19u. In each of the counties of the fifty-seventh and fifty-eighth class, there shall be one probation officer whose salary shall be five dollars per month.

$ 19. In counties of the thirty-eighth class there shall be one probation officer whose salary shall be seventy dollars per month and one assistant probation officer whose salary shall be fifty dollars per month. Payment of salaries.

$19w. The salaries of all probation officers and assistant probation officers shall be paid out of the county treasury of the county for which they are appointed, respectively, in the same manner as the salaries of the other county officers. The probation officers and assistant probation officers and deputy probation officers in all counties of the state shall be allowed such necessary incidental expenses incurred in the performance of their duties as required by any laws of the State of California as may be authorized by the judge of the juvenile court; and the same shall be a charge upon the county in which the court appointing them has jurisdiction, and said expenses shall be paid out of the county treasury upon a written order of the judge of the juvenile court of said county directing the county auditor to draw his warrant upon the county treasurer for the specific amount of such expenses. The probation officer shall keep a list of expenses and file a copy monthly with the county board of supervisors. Duties of probation officers.

§ 20. The probation officer shall inquire into the antecedents, character, family history, and environment of every person brought before the court, and of every person alleged to be a person who should be declared free from the custody and control of his parents, and into the cause of such person being brought before the juvenile court, and shall make his report in writing to the judge thereof.

Whenever application is made to the district attorney of the county for the drawing of a petition hereunder, it shall be the duty of the said probation officer to make such investigation as may be required by the said district attorney, or if the application has been made to the probation officer, said probation officer shall make such investigation as to him may

seem necessary for the purpose of determining the necessity for the filing of a petition. If, after such investigation it appears to said district attorney or to said probation officer to whom said application has been made that proceedings should not be brought hereunder, said district attorney or said probation officer to whom said application has been made may refuse to draw said petition.

It shall also be the duty of the probation officer to be present in court to represent the interests of said person when the case is heard, and to furnish to the court such information and assistance as the court may require and to make such report at such time; and to take charge of said person before and after the hearing as may be ordered. Every probation officer, assistant probation officer and deputy probation officer shall have the power of a peace officer. At any time the probation officer may bring any such ward committed to his care before the court with written report and recommendation for such further order or other action as the court may deem proper. Before any such ward is recommitted, the probation officer shall inquire into the reasons assigned for such action and shall be present in court to represent the interests of such ward.

Every probation officer shall have the powers of a school attendance officer, in such portions of the county, in which such probation officer has been appointed, as are not otherwise provided with a school attendance officer, and shall exercise such powers when not inconsistent with his other duties.

Every probation officer, within fifteen days after the thirty-first day of December, of each year, shall make in writing and file as a public document a report to the judge of the juvenile court of the county in which such probation officer is appointed, and shall furnish to the county board of supervisors and to the secretary of the state board of charities and corrections of this state a copy thereof. Such report, without giving names, shall state separately the exact number of neglected, dependent, and delinquent persons and wards of the juvenile court that remain under commitment to the care and custody of the probation officer, and the exact number of such persons of whose cases other disposition has been made, as such number exists, deducting all cases dismissed or discharged as reformed, or where such person has passed the age of twenty-one years upon such thirty-first day of December, segregating such persons as having been adjudged by such juvenile court to be neglected, dependent, delinquent, or wards of the juvenile court, as the case may be, in nineteen hundred and three, nineteen hundred and four, nineteen hundred and five, and so on, up to and including the calendar year for which such report is made and filed. Any of the duties of a probation officer may be performed by an assistant or deputy probation officer, and shall be so performed whenever directed by the probation officer; and it shall be the duty of the probation officer to see that his assistant and deputy probation officers perform their duties.