Carroll free press. [volume] (Carrollton [Ohio]) 1834-1861, 1856-05-08

addition thereto may receive for each year the
sum of twenty FIVE dollars for each additional
two hundred such inhabitants, above twenty
four hundred in the county; and in counting
such inhabitants above twenty-foar hundred, if
there be any fraction OF two hundred greater
than one hundred, such fraction shall be reck-
Oned as two hundred; provided, that no sheriff
or treasurer shall receive 10 any year, in any
county, more than three thousand FIVE hundred
dollars, and that no clerk, auditor or probate
Judge shall receive in any year more than three
thousand dollars. and no recorder shall receive
in any year more than two thousand dollars !;
and the compensation to be allowed, according
to the provisions Oftbis act, to the officers ma
med herein, after the taking Of any future emu
merAtion OF white male inhabitants under the
authority ofthis State, shall be herein sstab-
llshed, in every county according 70 the amour.
OF its population as herein classified, as ascer
tanned from Time to time by such enumeration
Section 6. That each Of said officers. after
deducting the proper proportion oftbe amounts
allowed by this act, TO be retained by him for
hiss own use, shall, a! the end Of each quarter,
pay into the county treasOry' and account for
to the county commissioners, for the use Of the
county, all the remainder of.he fees, costs, per
centages, penalties, and perquisites, of every
sort; collected by him during the said quarter;
but if in any quarter there shall lot have been
collected sufficient amount Of fees, costs, per
Centages, or penalties, by any officer, to pay to
hn the proportion due him for his own use, as
herein limited he shall be entitled to receive
the amount OF any such deficiency out of the
collections made by him in any succeeding
quarter or quarters during his official term, af-
ter deducting thereirom the amounts allowed
for the compensation OF bis deputies. clerks and
assistants, and other necessary expenses, as
hereinbsfore provided.
Section Z. Nothing in this act shall be SO
construed as to make the county commissioners
of any county liable TO any of the officers named
herein or their deputies, clerks and other as
sistants, for the payment of any salary or COM
peuSaton except Of the fees, costs. per centages
and penalties, collected by such officers respec-
lively.
Section 8. The county commissioners of sv
cry county are hereby authorized and requi.
red, when, in their opinion, it shall be necesSa-
ry to employ a collector or coIlectars for the
purpose of collecting the unpaid fees or costs
reported to them, and to allow to such collector
or collectors, such compensation, payable out
of the same. as they shall deem reasonable, and
the commissioners are also authorized to cause
executions OF other proper legal process, to be
issued for the purpose of collecting such unpaid
cost and fees, but any officer failing to use due
diligence in collecting any fees or costs receiva
BILE by him, shall be personally liable for the
payment thereof to the county, and the same
shall be charged to him by the county commits.
sioners.
Section 8. In case any officer named in this
act, shall fail to pay over into the county treas
ur7 any money found to be due from him, upon
his settlement with the county commissioners.
under this act, for the period of thirty days sf-
ter the same shall have been asCertained and
fouLd by them, and notice thereofgiven to him,
or il any of said officers shall, with intent to
violate this act, fail to furnish the statements
and reports herein required, at the time. and
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in the manner herein specified; or if any of
such officers shall wilfully make any such re.
port or statement false in any material matter,
knowing the same to be so. he shall, upon con-
viction upon indictment or information in the
court Of common pleas of the proper county, be
adjudged guilty Of misconduct in Office, and be
Immediately removed from office, and in addi-
ton, forfeit all compensation 10 which he would
be otherwise entitled, and be condemned to
pay fine for the use Of the county, of not less
than three hundred nor more than one thous-
and dollars, for the payment Of which forfeit
ure and fine as well as any amount otherwise
due from him in his official capacity: his sureties
shall also be liable upon their bond, to he re-
covered IN civil action in the name Of the
state of Ohio, for the use Of the county in which
be was an officer.
Section 10. The official bonds required by
law and hereafter taken from any officer named
in this act shall be deemed and held to make
the parties to the same liable for any violation
on the part of the officer for whom they are
sureties of any of the provisions hereof and for
the faithful performance of all the duties hereby
required.
Section IL. This act shall take effect and be
in force from and after the first day of April
eighteen hundred and fifty six: Provided how
ever, that nothing in this pct shall be so con-
strued as to effect the salary or compensation of