Chap. 429.—An ACT to Authorize Counties Containing Fifteen Thousand
Inhabitants to Elect a Separate Clerk for the Circuit Court.

Approved November 5, 1870.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly, That in all coun-
ties containing a population of fifteen thousand or more (ac-
cording to the census of eighteen hundred and sixty), there
shall be elected at the next general election, by the quali-
fied voters of such counties, a separate clerk for the circuit
court, who shall hold his office for the term of four years, and
receive the same compensation as now allowed by law to the
clerks of circuit courts: provided, that after the expiration of
the first term of four years, all elections for clerks of circuit
courts shall be in accordance with the next preceding census.

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