Dyer

Theplaintiff, in his complaint, alleges' that he is a constable in and for the fourth township of the county of Placer, and that as such constable he performed and rendered official services for the defendant, by serving and executing warrants and other legal writs and processes, transporting prisoners to and from the courts and county jail in said county, feeding prisoners while awaiting trial, conveying sick and indigent persons to the county hospital, aggregating in value the sum of $518.93; that on the eighth day of October, 1890, he presented his claim therefor in an itemized bill duly verified to the board of supervisors of said county for allowance, and said board failed and refused to allow the said claim, or any part thereof, except the sum of $370.93. By the itemized account it appears that the items disallowed by the board were for services rendered in arresting, transporting, and feeding prisoners charged with fraudulently evading the payment of railroad fares.

The authority for prosecuting persons charged with, such delinquencies is found in section 9 of an act entitled “An act to create the office of commissioner of transportation,” etc., approved April 1,…