Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1873-12-03
ARTICLE XIII.


sscfros 4, No new county SHAH 81 sstsbilstsd
which shAII reduce any county 70 lees thea fouf
hundred SQUARE miles, oT 10 loss than twenty
thousand inhsbitanis; nor shall any county bs
formed OF lesy area, or contsining n less popuias
tion, nor shall any limo thereof pAss within zen
miles Of the county seat Of any county ProPoss&
ARTICLE XIV.
COUNTY OFFICERS. H
SEcrIoS l. County tficsrs shall consist Of sher-
els, coroncrs prsthonotariss, registers Of Wills,
recorders Of deeds, eommissoners treasursrs, sur
vcyors, auditors, or controllers, olerks Of the
courts, district attorneys, aud such others may
from time to time DO established BY lawt snd no
sheriff or treasurer shall be eligible for the torn
next succeeding the one for which ho may BE-
elected.
general clections and shall hold their Offices for
the term Of three years. beginning on tho &rst
Monday Of January next after their election, and
until their successors shall bc duly qualified all
vacancies not otherwise provided for shall bs filled
in such manner as may be provided by law.
SIC. 3. No person shall be appointed to any
Office within any county who shall not hare been
citizen and an inhAbitant therein one year next
before his appointment, II fhe county shall have
been long erected but II Il shall not have been
so long erected, then within the limits Of the
county or counties out Of which it shall have bceu
taken.
SEC. 4. Prothonotaries, clerks Of the courts, ro.
corders Of deeds, registers Of Wills, county sur
veyors and Sheriifs shall keep their Offices in the
county town Of the county in which they respoc-
lively sb6ll be officers.
SEC. 8. The compensation Of county officers
shall be regulated BY law, and all county officers
who are or may be saaried shall pay all fees which
they may be authorized to receive into the treas
ury Of the county or State, as may be directed by
law. In counties containing over one hundred
and fifty thousand inhabitants all county of6cers
shall be paid by salary, and the salary Of any such
otcer and his clerks, heretofore paid BY fees, shall
not exceed the aggregate mount of fees earned
during bis term and collected By or for him.
Sgc. 0. The General Assembly shall provid BY
Law for the strict accountability Of oil county,
township and borough officers, as we'll for the fecs
which may be collected by them as for all public
or municipal moneys which may bo paid TO them.
SEC. I. Three county commissioners and three
county auditors shall be elected In each county
where such officers are chosen, in the year ono
thousand eight hundred and seventy five, and
every third year thereafter aud in the election Of
said officers each qualified elector shall vote for
no more than two persons, aud the three persons
having the higest number Of votes shall be eected
any casual vacancy in the Off 90 of county COM
missioner or county auditor shall be filled by the
Court of Common Pleas Of the county In which
such vacancy shall occur, by the appointment Of
an elector Of the proper county who shall hare
voted for tho commissioner or auditor whose place
is to be filled.
ARTICLE XIV.
ciTiEs AND CITY CHARTERS.
sEcrIos /. Cities may be chartered whenever .
majority Of the electors Of any town or borough
having population of at least ten thousand shall
vote at any general election In favor Of the same.
sHc. 2. No debt shall be contracted or liability
incurred by any municipal commission, except IN
pursuance Of an appropriation previously made
therefor by the municipal government.
SEC. 3. Every city shall create a sinking fund,
which shall be inviolsby pledged for the pay meat
Of its funded debt.