Chap. 142.—An A€T to Amend and Re-enact Sections 6 and 14 of Chapter
179, Acts of 1869 and 1870, in Relation to County Treasurer.

Approved Mareh 18, 1871.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly, That sections six
and fourteen of chapter one hundred and seventy-nine of the
acts of assembly, eighteen hundred and sixty-nine and eighteen
hundred and seventy, be amended and re-enacted so as to read
as follows :

‘“§ 6. In case of a vacancy in the office of county treasurer
by death, resignation, removal, or otherwise, it shall be the
duty of the judge of the proper county, in term time or in vaca-
tion, to fill such vacancy by appointment, and the person so
appointed, upon qualifying and giving bond as required by
sections two and four of this act, shall hold his office until the
first day of January next ail his appointment and until
his successor is elected and qualified; said successor to be
chosen at the next general election held in the month of No-
vember : provided, that whenever the judge shall make such
appointment in vacation, he shall certify the same to the clerk
of the county court, to be entered on the minutes or order
book as a vacation order.”
Ҥ 14. In the annual settlement of the treasurer with the
board of supervisors, he shall not have credit for any portion
of the county levy placed in the hands of any township col-
lector, and not paid over and accounted for by him by the first
of December unless it appear to said board, by competent
proof, that he instituted proceedings against said collector in
the manner hereinafter provided for, as soon after the first day
of December, as the length of notice required would permit,
and that said proceedings have not been delayed by any de-
fault or negligence of said treasurer.”

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