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Clerk not to be treasurer, &c.
Commissioners shall take security from treasurer and collectors in sufficient sums, or otherwise shall be answerable for them.
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30. The clerk of the said commissioners shall not be capable of being the treasurer or a collector under such commissioners, nor shall such treasurer be capable of being a collector under such commissioners; and it shall be lawful for such commissioners, and they are hereby authorized and required, to take and require from each and every of such treasurer and collectors a bond, with two sufficient sureties, conditioned for the punctual and faithful discharge of their respective trusts, in such penal sums as such commissioners shall think fit and proper, according to the amount of money to be received by such treasurer or collectors respectively; and if it shall appear that such commissioners have taken such bonds from such treasurer and collectors to a sufficient amount, and have, to the best of their ability, ascertained the sufficiency and solvency of such treasurer and collectors, and of their respective sureties, and that such commissioners have, without covin or partiality, provided so far as in them lay for the safe and secure keeping of such monies and funds by the said treasurer and collectors, such commissioners shall not be liable to make good the amount of any defalcation or embezzlement on the part of such treasurer or collectors: Provided always, that such commissioners shall, and each of them shall, otherwise be liable to make good the amount of any defalcation or embezzlement in or of any monies and funds raised or accruing under this Act, as if the same had actually been received by the hands of the said commissioners and each of them; anything in this Act contained to the contrary notwithstanding.
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