Ex parte Buckley
Supreme Court of Alabama
This is an application by Charles W. Buckley to this court, for a writ ot certiorari, supersedeas, or other appropriate writ, to review certain proceedings, had before the Chancellor of the Southern division (Hon. H. Austill) under the provisions of “an act to secure good and sufficient sureties on the bonds of tbe county officers of this State,” whereby Buckley's bond, as probate judge of Montgomery county, was declared insufficent, and a new official bond required of him.
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This is an application by Charles W. Buckley to this court, for a writ ot certiorari, supersedeas, or other appropriate writ, to review certain proceedings, had before the Chancellor of the Southern division (Hon. H. Austill) under the provisions of “an act to secure good and sufficient sureties on the bonds of tbe county officers of this State,” whereby Buckley's bond, as probate judge of Montgomery county, was declared insufficent, and a new official bond required of him. Similar applications were made by John N. Murphy, sheriff, Patrick Robinson, tax collector, and Frederick AYolffe,…
1Opinion of the CourtBrickell, C. J.
The general assembly, at its last session, passed an act, approved March 17, 1875, entitled, *48“an act to secure good and sufficient sureties upon the bonds of the county officers of this State.” Pamph. Acts, 1874-5, p. 50. The first section declares the sureties on the bonds of the judge of probate, judge of the county court, sheriff, clerk of the circuit court and city court, tax collector, tax assessor, and county treasurer, of the several counties in this State, must reside in the counties in which the duties of such officers are to be performed. The second section declares that no State,…
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