Madden

Section 25, subdivision 20, of the County Government Act of 1893 (Stats. 1893, p. 346) provides that boards of supervisors have power, under such limitations and restrictions as are prescribed by law, “to establish a salary fund! and also such other county funds as they may deem necessary for the proper transaction of the business of the county, and to transfer moneys from one fund to another, as the public interest may require.”

Section 220 of the same act provides: “For the purpose of *556 paying the salaries provided for in this act, all fees directed to be paid into the county treasury shall be set apart therein as a separate fund, to be known as the salary fund, to be applied to the payment of said salaries. Should the amount received from such source be insufficient, it shall be the duty of the county treasurer from time to time to transfer to said fund from the general fund of the county such sums as may be necessary to pay said salaries as they become due.”

And section 221 of the act provides: “The salaries of such officers named in this act as are entitled to salaries shall be paid monthly out of the county treasury; and it shall be the duty of the auditor, on the first…