-duties of County Treasurer and Clerk to the County
Commissioners, and shall also execute and deliver to
the County Commissioners a good and sufficient
bond to he approved 'by them, in the penal sum of
twenty thousand dollars, for the faithful] perform-
ance of his duty as Treasurer, and if the aforesaid
Treasurer shall fail to execute said bond within sixty
days after lie shall have been appointed or elected,
as the case may be, lie shall forfeit his office, and the
County Commissioners shall declare the said office
vacant, and shall proceed to fill) the same by the
appointment of some suitable person for the remain-
der of the term for which lie shall have been elected
or appointed, and such appointee, before lie enters
upon the duties of his office, shall execute and
deliver a bond of the same tenor, and in like manner
and take an oath in due form of law to faithfully per-
form the duties of his office as hereinbefore directed:
the County Commissioners may, at any time, demand
of said Treasurer such further bond, with such fur-
ther security as, in their judgment, the interest of
the county may require, and shall prescribe for the
said Treasurer office hours, during which said office
shall be kept open.
SEC. 12. The same Treasurer and Clerk shall be
entitled to such compensation as the County Com-
missioners may think proper, not exceeding eight
hundred dollars per annum; he shall receive and
pay over according to the directions of law or the
.order of the County Commissioners, the proceeds of
all taxes levied in said comity, and shall keep full]]
accounts of all moneys received and paid by him,
and of all matters relating to the duties of his office,
with all vouchers relating thereto; he shall attend
all meetings of the County Commissioners, make
minutes of, and record all their proceedings, and
perform such other duties as they shall, from time to
time, require of him; he shall furnish, under seal,
or otherwise, to individuals .copies or extracts of
any papers in the office of the County Commissioners, of which copies or extracts may by law be
required or by their permission granted, and shall
be entitled to the same fees for such services as the
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In case of
failure to
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Further bond
Compensat'n.
Duties of
Treasurer.
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