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thirty days after receiving his commission or notice of his
appointment, shall be deemed to have refused acceptance of said
office.

11. The clerk of the Superior Court and clerks of the Circuit
Courts, (who shall be entitled to a fee of ten cents for adminis-
tering the aforesaid oath, 1o be paid by the party,) shall report
to the Secretary of State, at least once a month, the names and
offices of all officers who have taken and subscribed the same be-
fore them respectively, which reports shall be carefully preserved
by the said Secretary of State; and he shall be competent to cer-
tify the character and qualification of officers equally with the
aforesaid clerks.

12. All deputies and under clerks of the clerks of any of the
courts of this State, of the Register of Wills, Commissioner of the
Land Office and Sheriffs, shall, before they enter upon the duties
of their several offices, severally take and subscribe the following
oath : I, A. B., do swear that I will not for lucre or malice delay
any person applying to me for any business belonging to the
office I officiate in, and that I will not directly or indirectly ask,
take, exact, demand or receive from or charge to any such per-
son to my own use any fee or reward whatsoever, for any ser-
vices I may do as deputy of the said office, and that in making
out the office fees, I will not wittingly or willingly charge other
or higher fees than are allowed by law.

ARTICLE LXIX.

Officers.

SEC. 1. Every person who has become, since the adoption of
the present Constitution of the State, a collector, receiver or
holder of public moneys, and who has failed to fairly account
with the treasury, and to whom is charged on the books thereof
any sum as due to the State, shall be taken and deemed to all in-
tents and purposes as ineligible as Senator or Delegate, or to any
office of profit or trust under this State, until he shall have ac-
counted for and paid into the treasury all sums on the books
thereof charged to and due by him.