The County: The "Dark Continent" of American PoliticsGilbertson, Henry S.
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The County: The "Dark Continent" of American Politics
Gilbertson, Henry S.
County government -- United States
SEC. 17: The Board of Supervisors must provide, by ordinance,
for not less than one Justice of the Peace and one Constable in each
township, and may provide for more in townships where population
and the business therein require a greater number; provided, that,
until the Board shall so provide for such Justices of the Peace and
Constables, the number of each thereof in each township shall continue
as now or hereafter provided by law; provided, further, that if the
Legislature shall hereafter, instead of the system of Courts of Justice
of the Peace now established by law, substitute some other system of
inferior courts, then and in that event, it shall not be compulsory
upon the Board of Supervisors to provide any number for, and the Board
may discontinue the existence of all Justices of the Peace in the
several townships, if such discontinuance be allowed by law, and the
Board may provide for such number of inferior Judges or Justices as may
be necessary for the needs of the county under such substituted system.
SEC. 18: Justices of the Peace shall be nominated and elected
at the times and in the manner and for the terms, now or hereafter
provided by general law. Constables shall be appointed by the Sheriff
from the eligible civil service list.
SEC. 19: The compensation of Justices of the Peace and of
Constables shall be fixed by the Board of Supervisors, and must be by
salary only, which need not be uniform for the several townships, nor
proportionate to population therein. Their duties and qualifications
shall be such as are now, or which may hereafter be prescribed by law,
or by this Charter.
SEC. 20: All fees collected by any Justice of the Peace or
Constable shall be paid into the County Treasury, on the first Monday
of each calendar month, together with a detailed statement of the same
in writing, a duplicate copy of which shall be filed with the Auditor
at the same time. The fees to be so paid into the Treasury by each
Constable shall include all fees charged and collected by him for
service of any writ or process of any court or for any act or service
done or rendered by him, or which he has power or which it is his duty
to do or render, in his official capacity; and every Constable shall
enter in the fee book kept by him all such fees charged and collected
by him and pay the same into the County Treasury as above provided,
without deduction for any such acts or services purporting or claimed
to have been done or rendered by him as a private citizen.
ARTICLE VI.
_Duties of Officers_
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