Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: SECTION IV. COUNTIES. How are counties erected ? By the legislature. What are the names of the county officers ? Sheriff, county clerk, county treasurer, district attorney, superintendent of poor, loan commissioner, county sealer of weights and measures, four coroners, county judge, keeper of penitentiary or jail, at least one school commissioner for each county, and a surrogate, wherever the population of the county exceeds forty thousand. How are they elected ? By ballot, at the general annual election, except county sealer of weights and measur.es, and the keeper of penitentiary or jail, who are appointed by the board of supervisors. How long do they hold their offices ? The loan commissioners hold their office two years, the judges and surrogate four years, and all others for a term of three years. Can a sheriff hold any other office ? He can not, and is ineligible to the office again for three years succeeding his term of service. What are the general duties of the sheriff? He must file an oath of office in the county clerk's office, and give a bond in the sum of ten thousand dollars; he shall have custody of the jail of his county; he may call out militia to aid in serving process; he must be present in person or by under-sheriff at the drawing of jurors, and must summon the same; he must execute and return process; he must send to the secretary of state a report of convicts, fec.; he must keep an office for service of papers. Can he act as counsellor ? He can not. May he be removed from office ? Yes, on charges. By whom ? The governor. May he resign ? 0 In N. T. county it is twenty thousand dollars. He may. To whom? To the governor. How may a vacancy be supplied ? By appointment from the governor until the n...