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An Act to regulate the Office of Constable. 1839 83 (1839)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactssc0316 and id is 1 raw text is: 83 or of the District, if there be one, make a list of the prisoners in Dec. 1839. the jail, signed by himself and the Jailor, entered in the Coroner's Book, and the original lodged in the Clerk's office. SEc. 46. Upon retiring from the Sheriff's office, he shall turn To turn over over the papers of the office, and the prisoners in jail, to a sue. ars,d .c to ceeding Sheriff, in manner and form, as Sheriffs may be required Sheriff. to execute the same duty. SEC. 47. All acts, or parts of acts, repugnant to this act, are Repealing hereby repealed. clause. In the Senate House, the twenty.first day of December, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and thirty.nine, and in we sixty-fourth year of the Sovereignty and Independence of the United States of America. ANGUS PATTERSON, President of the Senate. D. L. WARDLAW, Speaker of the House of Representatives. CHAPTER XII. AN ACT To REGULATE THE OFFICE OF CONSTABLE. SEC. 1. Be it enacted, by the Honorable the Senate and House of Representatives, now met and sitting in General Assembly, and by the authority of the same, That the term of the office of Term of office. Constable, shall be four years, to be estimated from the time he qualifies before the Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas, as is hereinafter provided. SEc. 2. Constables shall be appointed by the Magistrates who Number, and have qualified and entered upon the discharge of duty, in manner how appointed. and number as is provided in the Act entitled , An Act concern- ing the office and duties of Magistrate, passed at the present Session. SEC. 3. When any person shall receive the appointment of How qualified, Constable, he shall repair to the Clerk's office of the District, and, &c. together with the evidence of his appointment, he shall lodge his bond, in the form prescribed by the act entitled An Act concern. ing the bonds of public officers, passed in December, 1829, in the penalty of five hundred dollars, with good sureties, not less than two, nor more than five, to be approved in writing by the

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