If required by the board of county commissioners, the county treasurer, sheriff, and county clerk and recorder, on the first Monday of each month during the officer's term of office, shall make to the chairman of the board of county commissioners a report in writing under oath of all the fees of the officer's office, of every name and description, and of all necessary expenses of clerk hire and other expenses for the month ending at the time of said report. If required, such report shall state fully the manner in which such fees accrued.
Source: L. 1891: p. 313, § 20. R.S. 08: § 2552. C.L. § 7900. CSA: C. 66, § 39. CRS 53: § 56-4-17. C.R.S. 1963: § 56-4-18. L. 64: p. 385, § 16. L. 69: p. 256, § 32. L. 92: Entire section amended, p. 964, § 2, effective June 1.
ANNOTATION
The phraseology of this section did not necessarily imply that a justice had authority to appoint a clerk, or if that authority could be therefrom deduced, the court was unable to conclude the clerk's compensation was payable out of any other fund than that which was made up of the fees and emoluments of the office, and since several of the officers named were accorded the right to appoint assistants, deputies and clerks, rebutted the contention that it was the evident intention of the general assembly to confer on the justice the power to appoint a clerk. Bd. of Comm'rs v. Clapp, 9 Colo. App. 161, 48 P. 157 (1897).
Applied in Henderson v. Bd. of Comm'rs, 4 Colo. App. 302, 35 P. 880 (1894); Hamma v. People, 42 Colo. 401, 94 P. 326 (1908).