1931_public local laws_336_3
CHAPTER 335 AN ACT TO AMEND CHAPTER FIFTY-TWO OF THE PUBLIC-LOCAL LAWS OF ONE THOUSAND NINE HUNDRED TWENTY-NINE, RELATING TO THE RE- CORDERS COURT OF LEAKESVILLE TOWNSHIP, IN ROCKINGHAM COUNTY. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
On the first Monday in May, nineteen hundred and thirty-one, and each odd year thereafter the County Commissioners of Rockingham County shall appoint a clerk for said Recorders Court who shall begin his term of office on the first day of June thereafter and shall serve two years and until his successor is appointed and qualified. The clerk for his compensation shall receive as follows: one dollar ($1.00) for all warrants issued within the jurisdiction of a Justice of the Peace, and two dollars ($2.00) for all warrants issued in matters above the jurisdiction of a Justice of the Peace; one dollar ($1.00) for all summons in civil actions and three dollars ($3.00) in all attachments and claim and delivery. If a vacancy occurs in the said clerks office the unexpired term shall be filled by the said Board of County Commissioners. The clerk shall have concurrent powers and authority with the several Justices of the Peace of Rockingham County to take affidavits to warrants and to issue warrants in all criminal matters originating in Rockingham County, and shall have power to affix the seal of the court to other writs and processes of the court and take appearance bonds of defendants in criminal actions, or witnesses therein, such amount or amounts as fixed by the court, and to fix the amount of all bonds in the absence of the Recorder, or when the Recorder fails to fix bond, and to issue all summons, ancillary remedies, and all other papers and processes in civil actions, that the Recorder or any Justice of the Peace in Rockingham County can issue.