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25-1-101 - State-furnished books.

§ 25-1-101. State-furnished books.
 

Every justice of the peace, or other officer to whom the statute laws or other books may be furnished by the state, shall carefully preserve the same and, at the expiration of his term, deliver them to his successor, take his receipt therefor, and file the same in the office of the clerk of the circuit court. In default thereof, the said court, on motion of the clerk or of the successor in office, whose duty it shall be to make such motion, shall enter judgment in favor of the state against the justice or other officer in default for the sum of ten dollars for each volume missing and not satisfactorily accounted for, five days' notice being given of such motion. 
 

Sources: Codes, 1857, ch. 6, art 203; 1871, § 326; 1880, § 421; 1892, § 3075; 1906, § 3483; Hemingway's 1917, § 2821; 1930, § 2917; 1942, § 4063.
 

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