Pratt

Appeal from judgment awarding writ of mandate. Plaintiff is the official reporter of the superior court of Ventura County and defendant is the auditor of said county.

Plaintiff demanded of defendant warrants for his salary as reporter for each of the months from January, 1900, to March, 1901, inclusive, which warrants defendant refused. It is conceded that the judgment is correct, if the act fixing the salary of the official reporter of Ventura County, which is a county of the thirtieth class, is constitutional as to such portion of the act. It is provided in the County Government Act (Stats. 1897, p. 546): “In counties of this class the official reporter of the superior court shall receive ... a monthly salary of one hundred dollars, payable out o£ the county treasury, at the same time and in the same manner as the salaries of county officers.” The act is entitled “An act to establish a uniform system of county and township governments.” It is claimed that the portion of the act fixing the salary of the official reporter is unconstitutional, for the reasons,—1. That such subject is not expressed in the title of the act; and 2. That it is a special and local law regulating county…