Chap. 252.—An ACT to Amend and Re-enact the 28th Section of the Act
Approved July 11, 1870, Entitled an Act Prescribing the Duties and Vom-
pensation of County Officers,

Approved March 29, 1871.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly, That the twenty-
eighth section of the act approved July eleventh, eighteen
hundred and seventy, entitled an act prescribing the duties
and compensation of county ofticers, be amended and re-en-
acted so as to read as follows:

‘‘§ 28. The county court of any county, or the judge thereof
In vacation, shall require any officer of his county mentioned
or referred to in the first or second sections of this act, or in
the act approved July eleventh, eighteen hundred and seventy,
entitled an act prescribing the duties and compensation of cer-
tain township otticers, from whom a bond is required by law,
except clerks of the circuit courts in counties of over fifteen
thousand inhabitants, to give a new bond, or additional sure-
ties, whenever, in the opinion of said court or judge, it is ne-
cessary for the protection of the public interest; but before
such order is made, at least ten days’ notice shall be given to
such officer; and such notice shall be given whenever the court
or judge shall see fit, or whenever application shall be made, in
writing, by the attorney for the commonwealth. And if any
such officer shall fail or refuse to give such new bond, or addi-
tional security, within ten days after an order shall have been
made requiring such new bond, or additional security, his office
shall be considered vacant, and a new officer shall be appointed
in the mode prescribed by law. Upon such new bond, or ad-
ditional security, being given, the sureties in the former bond,
and their estates, shall be discharged from all liability for any
breach of duty committed by such officer after that time. All
orders made in vacation by the judge under this section, shall
be certified by him to the clerk ot the court, to be recorded
in the order book of the court as a vacation order.”

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