Article VI.

Section IV. Location of offices

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County officers

County officers

County officers shall consist of sheriffs, coroners, prothonotaries, register of wills, recorder of deeds, commissioners, treasurers, surveyors, auditors or controllers, clerks of the courts, district attorneys and such other as may from time to time be established by law; and no treasurer shall be eligible for the term next succeeding the one for which he may be elected.

County officers

County officers shall consist of sheriffs, coroners, prothonotaries, registers of wills, recorders of deeds, commissioners, treasurers, surveyors, auditors or controllers, clerks of the courts, district attorneys and such others as may be from time to time be established by law; and no sheriff or treasurer shall be eligible for the term next succeeding the one for which he may be elected.

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1790 Article VI. Section I

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1790 Article VI. Section III

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Location of offices

Prothonotaries, clerks of the peace and orphans’ courts, recorders of deeds, registers of wills, and sheriffs, shall keep their offices in the county town of the county in which they, respectively, shall be officers, unless when the Governor shall, for special reasons, dispense therewith, for any term not exceeding five years after the county shall have been erected.

Of public offices

Prothonotaries, Clerks of the Peace and Orphans Courts, Recorders of deeds, Registers of wills and Sheriffs, shall keep their offices in the county town of the county in which they respectively shall be officers, unless when the Governor shall, for special reasons, dispense therewith for any term, not exceeding five years after the county shall have been erected.

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1874 Article XIV. Section 1

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1874 Article XIV. Section 2

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1874 Article XIV. Section 3

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