Pennsylvania Act 1878-149 — COUNTY COMMISSIONERS BONDS REQUIRED

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COUNTY COMMISSIONERS BONDS REQUIRED
                  Act of May 24, 1878, P.L. 118, No. 149              Cl. 16
                                  AN ACT

     Requiring county commissioners to give bonds.

        Section 1.  Bond
        The county Commissioners of the several counties of this
     commonwealth hereafter elected shall, before entering upon their
     official duties, each give bond, with sureties to be approved by
     the court of quarter sessions of the same county, or by one of
     the judges thereof, and in such penalty as the said court shall
     deem sufficient, not less than two thousand dollars each, for
     the faithful discharge of all duties enjoined upon them by law,
     and for the faithful and legal appropriation of all county and
     other moneys which said commissioners have any authority to draw
     out of the county treasury, upon checks or orders given by them,
     or over which they have control; the said bonds shall be taken
     in the name of the commonwealth of pennsylvania for the use of
     the county, and shall be acknowledged before the recorder of
     deeds of the same county, and recorded in his office at the cost
     of the county, and the original bond shall be filed in the
     office of the court of quarter sessions: provided, that the
     provisions of this act shall not apply to any county in which
     county commissioners are now required by law to give bonds
     conditioned for the faithful performance of their duties. 1878,
     May 24, P.L. 118, Sec. 1.