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An Act concerning the office, duties, and liabilities of Sheriff. 1839 40 (1839)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactssc0315 and id is 1 raw text is: 40 Dec. 1839. CHAPTER IX. AN ACT CONCERNING THE OFFICE, DUTIES, AND LIABILITIES OF SHERIFF. SEC. 1. Be it enacted, by the Honorable the Senate and House of Representatives, now met and sitting in General Assembly, Bond, Sureties, and by the authority of the same, That the Sheriff of any Dis. &C. trict in this State, on his clection, and before he receives his com- mission, shall enter into bond, according to the requisitions of an aet, entitled An Act, concerning the bonds of Public Officers, passed on the eighteenth day of December, Anno Domini, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-nine, which bond shall be in such sum as is hereinafter prescribed, and shall be executed by the said Sheriff, and any number of sureties, not exceeding twenty, nor less than five, to be approved by the Commissioners appoint. cd to approve the sureties to official bonds, as prescribed by law, and shall deposit the said bond in the office of the Treasurer of the Division in which he resides, within thirty days from the time the election is declared; and every Sheriff shall procure other satisfactory security when duly required, in pursuance of the act, Concerning the bonds for the faithful performance of duties, to be given by certain public officers of this State, passed on ihe twentieth day of December, Anno Domini, one thousand eight hundred and twenty. 000 SEC. 2. Every Sheriff, before entering on the duties of his of fice, in addition to the oath required by the Constitution, to be taken by every person chosen or appointed to any office of profit or trust, shall take the following oath I, A. B., swear, (or af- firm, as the case may be,) that I am under no promise, in honor or law, to share the profits of the office, to which I have been elected, and I will not, directly or indirectly, sell or dispose of said office, or the profits thereof, but will resign, or continue to discharge the duties thereof during the period fixed by law, if I so long live--so help me God ! and an oath to enforce the law against gaining, which oaths shall be indorsed on the commission, and subscribed by the Sheriff, and attested by two Magistrates of the District, for which he shall have been elected ; and at the first term of the Court of Common Pleas and General Sessions, which may be held thereafter, the said Sheriff shall produce his commission, which shall be read in open Court, and shall be re- corded in the Journal of the said Court. Ponal sum or SEc. 3. The bonds of the Sheriffs of the several Districts in Donds. this State, shall be given in the penal sum of twenty thousand dol-

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