The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1858-10-06

collected sufficient amount of fees
costs, per centages, or penalties, BY anJ
officer, to pay to him 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 collee
tions made by him in any succeeding
Equarter or quarters during his offieial
term, after dedncting therefrom the
amounts allowed for the compensation
of his deputies, clerks and assistants
and other necessary expenses, as herein
before provided. #goi 81 azs : .o9
SEC. T. 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 aud other assistants, for
the payment of any salary or compensa-
tions except out Of the fees, costs, per
centages and penalties, collected by such
officers respectively. > s''l - a-.
SEC. g. The county commissioners
of every county are hereby authorized
and required, when, in their opinion, it
shall be necessary to employ collector
or collectors 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 rea-
sonable; and the commissioners are also
authorized 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 collecting any fees or
costs receivable by him, shall be person
ally liable for the payment thereof to
the county, and the same shall be charg
ed to him by the county commissioners
SEC. g.. In case any officer named in
this act, shall fail to pay over into the
county treasury any money found to be
due from him, upon his settlement with
the county commissioners, under this act,
for the period of thirty days after the
same shall be ascertaiDed 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 statesments and reports herein re-
quired, at the time, and in the manner
herein specified, or if any of said off
GERS shall willfully make any such report
or statement false in any material mat
ter, knowing the same to be so, he shall,
upon conviction and indictment or in
form alton in the court of common pleas
of the proper county, be adjudged gull
ty of misconduct in Office, and be imme-
diately removed from cffice, and in ad-
dition, forfeit all compensation to which
he would be otherwise entitled, and be
condemned to pay fine for the use of
the county, of not less than three hun.
sdred nor more than one thousand dollars,
for the paymcnt-o of which forfeiture and
6Dc as we'll as any amount otherwise due
from him in his official capacity; his
sureties shall also be liable upon their
bond, to be recovered in civil action
in the name of the State of Ohio, for
the use of the county in which he was
an officer.
See. 10, The official bonds required
by law and hereafter taken from any
officer named in this act shall be deemed
aud 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 du-
ties hereby required. -@i s-As41o
4 SEC. IL. I his act shall take effect
and be in force from and after the first
day of April, eighteen hundred and 6fty-
ty six; Provided, however, that moth
log ia this act shall be so construed as
to affect the salary or compensation of
any officer during the term of Office for
which prior to the taking effect of this
act he shall have been elected, and the
fees of each of the officers herein named
unpaid at the end of his off |
cial term, shall in no wise belong to, or
be the property of any such officer, but |
shall be collectable by his successor in |
office, and shall be held to be public mo-
MES and property of the county and
shall constitute part of the fund, out
of which the expenses and compensation |
Of such successor in office shall be paid |
O. I1o N. H. VAN WORRIES,
Speaker of the House Of Representatives |
~ t7 THOMAS III. FORD ,sh 'Qd |
.a3 wi President Of the Senate.
o April 8, 1856. u ssa-o 10 dag
There you have the documents rela
ting to this subject OF all the silly
things ever sought to be trumped up
against an honest and capable public Of
icer, this is the most silly, and does not
deserve the notice we have given it,
we have only referred to it, inasmuch as
upon the subject have
formed the chief stock in trade of the
leading friends of Mr.. PORTER.
-A<.-s-A< 5-s.-Iss
Just the way Mr. Musgrave talked
---s sTyIAND Oct Q 1854
Mr.. EDtron In conversation with |
'ne Of the Titles squad of renegade Dem
,crats of this town, who has gone over
10 the Republicans again tthis being his
-egular year for bolting) he claimed to
De Just as good a Democrat as ever he
vas" ] readily assented to this. In
Iced have no doubt of it. He's Gas
good Democrat" as he was When he
vas one of the Captains of tho Know
Nothing Lodge of this Town-and as
,ood Democrat as he was when, in
ormer contests, protesting Democracy,
,e stabbed JOHN SMURR aud others
Is good Democrat as he was last year.
when he soanted to bolt against JAMES
CANTwELL.
Mr.. Musgrave, When he was a candi-
late for the Senate, talked the same
way. He was t'as good Democrat as |
he ceer vast" True; but his Democra-
" was Meier more than skin deep. All |