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CHAP. XXIII.]
COUNTY OFFICERS.
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affirmation, faithfully to discharge the duties of the same, and shall give bond to the register of deeds of the proper county, in the sum of three hundred dollars, conditional for the faithful discharge of the same.

Sect. 27. It shall be the duty of said surveyor, by himself or deputy, to execute any survey which may be required by any court, or upon application any person or corporation.

Sect. 28. The said surveyor shall keep a fair and correct record of all surveys made by him or his deputy, in a book to be provided by the county commissioners for that purpose, which he shall transmit to his successor in office; he shall also number such surveys progressively, and shall preserve a copy of the field notes and calculations of each survey, indorsing thereon its proper number, a copy of which, and also a fair and accurate plat, together with a certificate of survey, shall be furnished by said surveyor to any person requiring the same.

Sect 29. The said surveyor and his deputies may demand and receive for their services the following fees, to wit: for each mile actually run with compass and chain, two dollars; for each succeeding mile thereafter, one dollar; for every in and out lot, in any town laid out and platted, twenty-five cents; for a plat and certificate, except town plats, fifty cents; for recording a survey, fifty cents. When employed surveying for the county, he shall receive two dollars and fifty cents per day.

Sect. 30. The coroner shall, before he enters upon the duties of his office, take and subscribe an oath to support the constitution of the United States, and the act organizing the Territory of Dakota, and to faithfully discharge the duties of his office to the best of his ability; and he shall be required to give bond to the county commissioners in the penal sum of two thousand dollars, with good and sufficient securities, conditioned for the faithful performance of his duty, which bond shall be filed with the register of deeds, and recorded in his office.

Sect. 31. When there shall be no sheriff or under sheriff in any organized county, it shall be the duty of the coroner in each county to exercise all the powers and duties of sheriff of his county until a sheriff shall be elected and qualified; and when the sheriff, for any cause, shall be committed to the jail