Pennsylvania Act 1921-254 — COURT OFFICERS, ELECTION OF

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COURT OFFICERS, ELECTION OF
                  Act of May 12, 1921, P.L. 553, No. 254              Cl. 16
                                  AN ACT

     Providing for the election of one person as prothonotary, and
        one person as clerk of the courts of quarter sessions and
        oyer and terminer, in counties of the fourth class, and
        repealing general, local, and special acts inconsistent
        herewith.

        Section 1.  Be it enacted, &c., That the qualified electors
     of each county of the fourth class shall elect one person to
     fill the office of prothonotary, and one person to fill the
     office of clerk of the courts of quarter sessions and oyer and
     terminer. At the first municipal election occurring after the
     passage of this act, and every four years thereafter, there
     shall be elected, in each of said counties where a vacancy is
     about to occur by the expiration of the terms of the person or
     persons now in office, a person as prothonotary, and a person as
     clerk of the courts of quarter sessions and oyer and terminer.
     In all other counties of the fourth class, there shall be
     elected, at the municipal election in the year one thousand nine
     hundred and twenty-three and every four years thereafter, a
     person as prothonotary, and a person as clerk of the court of
     quarter sessions or oyer and terminer, to take the places of
     those officers whose terms are about to expire on the first
     Monday of January next following. All prothonotaries, and clerks
     of the court of quarter sessions and oyer and terminer, elected
     under the provisions of this act, shall hold their respective
     offices for terms of four years from the first Monday of January
     succeeding their election and until their successors shall  be
     duly elected and qualified. Each prothonotary and clerk of the
     courts elected under the provisions of this act shall receive
     the salary now or hereafter provided by law for such officers in
     counties of the class herein provided for.