PUBLIC GENERAL LAW.

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the person who shall be appointed and commissioned in his stead,

shall be qualified — Const, art 49.

All civil officers hereafter to be appointed for the several counties of

this state, shall have been residents of the county respectively for

which they shall be appointed six months before their appointment,

and shall continue residents of their county respectively during

their continuance in office — Const, art. 46.

CIVIL POWER.

In all cases, and at all times, the military ought to be under strict sub-

ordination to, and control of, the civil power — Decl. of Rights,

art. 27.

CLERKS.

Respecting passes — 1715, ch. 19, . . . . . .

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Directions respecting the charge of fees by the clerks against criminals

— 1715, ch. 26, sec. 8, ........

13

Fine on clerks pleading as attorneys in the courts where they bear

office — 1715, ch. 41, sec. 9, .......

25

Their duty as to endorsing and recording deeds — 1715, ch. 47, sec. 8,

p. 38; Nov. 1766, ch. 14, ........

110

Penalty on clerks issuing criminal process without an order under the

hand of an attorney practising in the court — 1715, ch. 48, sec. 3, .

42

All hills, bonds or other specialties, taken by county clerks, shall he

endorsed for what they became due, or shall be void — 1715, ch.

48, sec. 9, ..........

44

Penalty on clerks delivering blank writs to any attorney, sheriff or

other person — 1715, ch. 48, sec. 11,

44

Clerks obliged to issue process on the application of persons in their

own names, without any titling from an attorney, (on their lawful

fees being secured, if such persons are not residents of the state,) —

1716, ch. 20, sec. 2, .........

46

Bond with security to be given by the clerks, and renewed when

thought necessary by the courts — 1742, ch. 10, .

81

Penalty on cursing or swearing in presence of a county clerk — 1723,

ch. 16, sec. 2,

66

Clerks shall deliver to defendants, when required, full copies of all the

costs of suit recovered against them, or forfeit two thousand pounds

of tobacco — 1731, ch. 15, sec. 3, ......

79

Penalty on county clerks removing any books, &c. out of their office,

and keeping them out between eleven at night and six in the morn-

ing— 1747, ch. 3, p. 84 ; 1748, ch. 7, sec. 1, .

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Empowered to remove the last recording book of judgments, and the

four last court dockets and papers, and to keep them at their own

houses, &c. — 1748, ch. 7, sec. 2,

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Such dockets and papers to be brought by the clerks upon every office

day to the court-houses — September, 1770, ch. 10,

121

County clerks, or their deputies, to attend at the court-house one or

more days in every week, (to be appointed by the court,) from nine