The Democratic sentinel and Harrison County farmer. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1851-1852, 1852-02-11
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AN ACT

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AN ACT
To provide for the election, qualification and
removal from office of the Clerks of the
Courts of Common Pleas, and to prescribe
the manner of filling vacancies in said
office.
SECTION /. Be it enacted by the General
Assembly of the State of Ohio, That there
shall be elected in each county in this State,
by the qualltief electors thereof, on the Sec
ond Tuesday of October, in the year eight
teen hundred and tifty-four, and triannially
thereafter on said day, one Clerk of the
Court of Common Pleas, who shall hold his
Office for three years, if he so long behave
well, and until his successor shall be chosen
and elected.
SEC. 2. That each of the Clerks of the
Courts of Common Pleas, who were elected
in this State on the second Tuesday of Oc-
tober, in the year eighteen hundred and
ffly-one, or who shall hereafter be elected
or appointed as hereinafter provided, shall,
before entering upon the duties of his said
Office, take IN oath or affirmation before some
person qualified to administer such oath or
affirmation, that he will truly and faithfully
enter and record all orders, DEGREES, iudg.
ments and proceedings of the said court of
common pleas, and OF such other court or
courts of which he may be clerk by virtue of
his sail office, which he may be by law re-
CURED to enter and record, and faithfully
and imparlially discharge and perform all
the duties of his said Office, according to the
best of his abilities and understanding and
each of said clerks shall also give bond, with
sufficient s%ureiies, to the State of Ohio, to be
approved by the board of county commits
sioners of the county in which he shall have
been elected or appointed, in the penal sum
of not less than ten thousand and not more
than forty thousand dollars, conditioned that
he wilftru'y and faithfully pay over all mo-
ney that may be by him received in his off
cial capacity, and that he will enter and re-
cord all the orders, DEGREES, judgements and
proceedings of said courts, which he may
by law be required to enter and record, and
faithfully and impartially discharge and per-
form all the duties of his said Office which
bond shall be lodged with the county treas
urer.
SEC. 5. That the said clerks of the courts
OF common pleas shall, within their respect
i've counties, do and perform all the duties
which the clerks of the Supreme Court and
courts of common pleas are now by law re-
quired or authorized to do and perform, ex-
eept so much of said duties relating to the said
last named courts as may not be applicable
to the several courts of which they may be
the clerks, and shall be liable to the same
penalties and fdrfeitures that said last named
clerks are now by law liable to for malfea-
sance in Office, and shall receive the same
fees and ~emolumcnts for the performance of
The said dulles as are now allowed by law
for the same.
SEC. 4. That said clerks may each appoint
lone or more deputies, to be approved by
their respective courts and the appointment
of every such deputy shall be evidenced by
q certificate thereof, signed by his principal,
and entered on the journal Of the Court of
Common Pleas, and shall continue during
the pleasure of the principal; and every
principal may take such bond and security
from bis deputy as be shall deem necessary,
to secure the faithful discharge OF the duties
of his appointment; and the principal shall
in all eases be answerable for the neglect Of
duty or misconduct in Office of his deputy.
SEC. 8. That every such, deputy shall,
previous 70 entering on the duties OF his ap-
pOintment, take an oath or affirmation, faith.
fully to perform all the duties thereof; and
when s o qualified the deputy may do and
perform any and all of the duties appertain.
ing 70 the office Of his principal.
SIC. 8. That each and every clerk Of the
respective courts, shall keep his Office at thc
seat Of justice in his proper county; and ev
sry clerk falling 20 70 do, shall be deemed
and taken to have resigned the M Anc
IN case q vacancy shall happen in the ofic'
lef clerk Ia any county in thisState, by death
resignation Or Otherwise, the commissioner
,Of said county are hereby authorized to ap
point a clerk pro Ientpore. who shah hold hi
office until the October elasBipn next ~eannsuin,
such appointment. aud until his .suecesso
shall BIS eleeted and qusli6ed; provided sail
appointment shall have been made at Teas
sff.sen days prior to said October eIecson
Otherwise said clerk 50 appointed shalt CON
/ tinue in Office under and By virtue of His sal,
|. appointment until die October election to b
held IN the year nexftiereafter. and until hi
/ successor shall be elected anil qualified