Section 1

Section 1. Be it enacted, &c., That the qualified electors of each county of the fourth class shall elect one person to fill the office of prothonotary, and one person to fill the office of clerk of the courts of quarter sessions and oyer and terminer. At the first municipal election occurring after the passage of this act, and every four years thereafter, there shall be elected, in each of said counties where a vacancy is about to occur by the expiration of the terms of the person or persons now in office, a person as prothonotary, and a person as clerk of the courts of quarter sessions and oyer and terminer. In all other counties of the fourth class, there shall be elected, at the municipal election in the year one thousand nine hundred and twenty-three and every four years thereafter, a person as prothonotary, and a person as clerk of the court of quarter sessions or oyer and terminer, to take the places of those officers whose terms are about to expire on the first Monday of January next following. All prothonotaries, and clerks of the court of quarter sessions and oyer and terminer, elected under the provisions of this act, shall hold their respective offices for terms of four years from the first Monday of January succeeding their election and until their successors shall be duly elected and qualified. Each prothonotary and clerk of the courts elected under the provisions of this act shall receive the salary now or hereafter provided by law for such officers in counties of the class herein provided for.