Chap. 434.—An ACT to Amend and Re-enact Section 7 of an Act entitled
an Act Prescribing the Duties and Compensation of Certain Towuship
Officers, approved July 11, 1870.

Approved November 5, 1870.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly, That section seven
of the act entitled an act prescribing the duties and compensa-
tion of certain township officers, approved July eleven, eighteen
hundred and seventy, be amended and re-enacted so as to read
as follows:

Ҥ 7. The board of supervisors of every county may have a
seal, and may alter the same at pleasure. They shall sit with
open doors, and all persons conducting themselves in an or-
derly manner may attend their meetings. They may require
the sheriff of the county, in person, or at his option, by one of
his deputies, to attend their meetings and preserve order, or
discharge such other duties as may be necessary to the proper
dispatch of the business before them; and. tor his services in
this behalf, the officer'rendering them shall be entitled to a
compensation, to be ascertained by the board and paid ont of
the county levy, not exceeding two dollars per day, or ten dol-
lars per annum. All questions submitted to the board of su-
pervisors of any county for decision, under the provisions of
this act, or of any law of the state, shall be determined by a
vote of a majority of the supervisors present: provided, that
in any case in which there shall be a tie vote of the board of
supervisors of any county upon any such guestion, it shall be
the duty of the clerk of such board to certify such fact to the
judge of the county court of such county, who shall thereupon
attend the meeting of such board, and the vote of such board
shall be again taken upon such question, and if the number of
the votes of the supervisors present be cast in the affirmative
be equal to that cast in the negative, it shall be the duty of
such judge to give the casting vote, and thereby decide such
question; whereupon the proper order or ordinance in execu-
tion of such decision shall be entered by the clerk, and any de-
cision, order, or ordinance so determined, entered, or made,
shall be as binding and valid, to all intents and purposes, as if
the same were determined, entered, or made upon the votes of
all or a majority of such board.”
2. This act shall be in force from its passage.