Pennsylvania Act 1857-610 — EXPENSES OF GOVERNMENT - REPAIRS OF PUBLIC CANALS AND RAILROADS

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EXPENSES OF GOVERNMENT - REPAIRS OF PUBLIC CANALS AND RAILROADS
                  Act of May 18, 1857, P.L. 559, No. 610              Cl. 72
                                  AN ACT

     To provide for the ordinary expenses of Government, the repairs
        of Public Canals and Railroads, and other general and special
        Appropriations.

        Section 79.  Accounts of county officers to be settled
     quarterly
        The treasurer of the City of Philadelphia, and all county and
     city treasurers, every recorder of deeds, register of wills,
     prothonotary, clerk of the court of quarter sessions and clerk
     of the orphans' court in the Commonwealth, shall, on the first
     monday of july next, and quarterly thereafter, or oftener, if
     required by the State Treasurer, pay into the Treasury, or such
     place of deposit as such State Treasurer shall designate, to the
     credit of the Commonwealth, the whole amount of money received
     during the period preceding said payments; and shall furnish to
     the State Treasurer statements, under proper heads, designating
     the source from which the money was received; and said officers
     shall file and settle quarterly accounts in the office of the
     Auditor General, as now required by law.  Upon the settlement of
     said quarterly accounts, if it appear that the receipts shall
     not have been paid as directed by this section, any officer so
     offending shall forfeit his fees and commissions on the whole
     amount of money collected during the quarter; and in every case
     where a balance due the Commonwealth shall remain unpaid for a
     period of ten days after such quarterly settlement, suit shall
     be commenced against such delinquent and his sureties, as is
     provided in case of defaulting officers.  1857, May 18, P.L.
     559, Sec. 79.
        Section 81.  New bonds to be given by public officers, in
     certain cases
        In case any city or county treasurer, or other public officer
     of this Commonwealth, charged with the safe keeping, transfer or
     disbursement of public money, who has given or hereafter shall
     give bonds with security, for faithfully paying over or
     accounting for such public money, in any manner prescribed by
     law, and such treasurer or other public officer as aforesaid, or
     any of their sureties respectively, shall become insolvent or in
     failing circumstances, or any such sureties shall die or
     abscond, it shall and may be lawful in any such case for the
     State Treasurer to require new bonds, with new security, to be
     approved of in like manner as the original bond and sureties are
     now by law required to be given and approved. 1857, May 18, P.L.
     559, Sec. 81.