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inv or compensation except out Of the fees,
costs, per centages and penalties, collected by
lsuch officers respectively.

Try or compensation except out OF the lees,
costs, per cottages and penalties, collected by
such officers respectively.
B, SECTION s. The county commissioners OF
every county are hereby authorized and re-
quired, when, in their opinion, it shall be ne
cessary to employ a collector or couectors Tor
1.-The purpose OF vcollecting the unpaid fees or
costs reported to them, and to allow to such
collector or collectors, such compensation, pay
able out of the same, as they shall deem rea-
sonable; and the commissioning are also au-
/ thorized to cause executions or other proper
legal process, to be issued for the purpose of
collecting such unpaid costs and fees, but any
officer failing to use due diligence in collectlng
any fees or costs receivable by him. shall be
personally liable for the payment thereof to
the county, and the same shall be charged to
lhim by the county commissioners.
SECTION 8. In case any officer named in this
y act, shall fail to pay over into the county treas
bury any money found&tolbe due from him,
llupon his settlement with the county commas
-1~sioners, under this act, for the period OF thirty
DAYS after the same shall have been ascertain
ed and found by them, and notice thereof given
to him, or if any of said officers shall, with
: intent to violate this act, fail to furnish the
statements and reports herein required, at the
l time, and in the manner herein specified; or il
L any of such officers shall wilfully make any
r such report or statement false in any material
matter, knowing the same to be SO, he shall,
: upon conviction upon Indictment OF 1nforna-
y ton in the court of common pleas OF the
II proper county, be adjudged guilty of mlscon-
duct in Office, and be- Immediately removed
" from office, and in addition, forfeit all compen-
W sation to which he would be otherwise entitled,
and be condemned to pay a fine for the use OF
the county, of not less than three hundred mol
lie more than one thousand dollars, for the pay
!. Ement Of which forfeiture and fine as well as
id any amount otherwise due from him in his
TT official capacity; his sureties shall also be liable
it, upon their bond, to be recovered in a civil &C
Or ton in the name of the State OF Ohio for tn
10 use of the county in which he was an officer
or Section 10. The official bonds required b.
Id law and hereafter taken from any officer nance
IT. in this act, shall be deemed and held to max
o the parties to the same liable for any violation
al on the part of the officer for whom they ar
at sureties of any of the provisions hereof an
,rt for the fpithful performance of all the dutle
by hereby required.
on SEcr1os IL. This act shall take effect an
he lee in force from and after the first day OF apr
to eighteen hundred and ~ffty-six: Provided hov
ut ever, that nothing in this act shall be SO COZ
ort strued as to effect the salary or compensate
In Of any officer during the term of office Il
he which prior to the taking effect of this act
for shall have been elected, and the fees OF eac
IN of the officers herein named remaining unpa
the end of his official term, shall in nowl
viz belong to-, or be the property OF any such OF
Ger. but shall be collectable by his successor
lafl office. and shall be held to be public moni
ion and property of the county, and shall cons
her tute a part of the fund, outsof which the e
penses and compensation Of such successor
lall Office shall be paid.
the N. H. VAN WORRIES,
sas- Speaker of the House, Of Representafir
tor; THOMAS H. FORD,
lep- President Of the Senate.
hall April sth, 1856.
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