Chap. 225.—An ACT to Amend and Re-enact the Fifty-ninth Section of
an Act Approved the 11th day of May, 1870, entitled an Act to Provide
for a General Election.

Approved July 9, 1870.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly, That the fifty-
ninth section of an act approved the eleventh day of May,
eighteen hundred and seventy, entitled an act to provide for a

eneral election, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as
follows:

“$59. The removal of any county, corporation, or town-
ship officer from the county, corporation, or township in which
such officer twas elected, shall vacate his office; or if he fail to
qualify and give bond, when a bond is required, in the time
prescribed by law for the commencement of his term of office,
his office shall for that cause be vacant: provided, that town-
ship officers elected May the twenty-sixth, eighteen hundred
and seventy, shall have until the first day of August, eighteen
hundred and seventy, to qualify and give bond.”

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