-   lie. mas  v.  White,    12   Mass.  369  ;  5
:;l  l  ;    Kavanaugh     v.    Sanders,    8
:.l.    (Me.)    ii2;   Sweetzer  v.    Bay,    2
Gray,    I'.',    and   cases     there   cited  ;   Smith
r.  W  Tex.     5  t  ;    Sutherland    r.
<       .  35  '•-   Y.    L05  ;  Barnel    v.    Abbott,

63  Vt.  120  (bond  executed    near  the  ,

of  an  officer's  term  of  office,  but  antedated,

to  cover  the  entire  term,  held   good).   See,

.  Fond  du  Lie  o.  Moore,  58  Wis.  170.
itzi  t  '■•  Bay,  2  Gray,   19  ;   Horn

v.  Whittier,  6  X.  H.  88.     A  bond  given

by  tl  r  of  a  county  for  the  faith-

f  A  performance  of  his  official  duties,  to  the

of  the  Bame  county,

iiid  bond,  notwithstanding


there  may  be  no  statute  requiring  one.
Supervisors  u.  Coffinbury,  1  Mich.  355;
People  v.  Johr,  22  Mich.  461  (1871)  ;
Platteville  v.  Hooper,  63  Wis.  381.  The
fact  that  there  is  already  a  valid  official
bond  with  solvent  sureties  does  not  pre-
clude a  county  court  from  taking  from  a
delinquent  county  officer,  by  way  of  se-
curity for  his  delinquency,  a  bond  and
mortgage  on  real  estate.  Turner  v.  Clark
Co.,  67  Mo.  243  (1878).
