Chap. 392.—An ACT to Amend and Re-enact Section 2 of an Act approved
July 9, 1870, Providing for the Reassessment of the Lands Throughout
the Commonwealth.

Approved November 2, 1870.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly, That the second
section of chapter two hundred and fourteen of the Acts of
assembly for eighteen hundred and sixty-nine and seventy, pro-
viding tor the reassessment of the lands of the commonwealth,
be amended and re-enacted as follows:

‘““§ 2. Each assessor, before entering upon the duties of his
oftice, shall, before the judge of the county court of his county,
in vacation or before said court in term, execute a bond, with
good security, ina penalty of five thousand dollars, conditioned
for the faithful performance of the duties of his office, and
shall moreover take an oath that he will faithfully and impar-
tially, and to the best of his skill and understanding, execute
all the duties of his office according to law: provided, if said
qualification is in vacation, the certificate thereof and the oath
shall be returned to the clerk of the county court, who shall
record such certificate, and the fact of the taking of the oath,
in the minutes of the next term.”

2. This act shall be in force from its passage.