Jefferds

By the County Government Act of 1891 tbe compensation of each supervisor in counties of tbe eleventh class is fixed at “six dollars per day for actual service) and forty cents per mile while traveling from bis place of residence to the county seat; provided that no more than one mileage in any one monthly term shall be allowed.” (Stats. 1891, p. 352.) Each supervisor was also ex officio road commissioner, and was entitled to receive for bis services as road commissioner “twenty cents per mile one way for all distances actually traveled by him in the performance of bis duties, provided that he shall not in any one year receive more than three hundred dollars.” (Stats. 1891, p. 476.) By the County Government Act of 1893 the compensation of officers in this class of counties was declared as follows (Stats. 1893, p. 416):

Tulare county is a county of the eleventh class, and the defendants Henderson, Twaddle, and Gilliam were elected supervisors at the general election in 1892 for the term of four *362 years from and after tire Monday succeeding the first day of January, A. D. 1893. After the passage of the above act of 1893 they claimed that they were entitled to the salaries fixed…