Section 1. Clerk in counties containing 40,000 inhabitants, and not forming a separate judicial district
In each of the Counties of the Commonwealth containing forty thousand inhabitants, and not heretofore created a judicial district under section five, article five, of the constitution, there shall be elected one person to fill the offices of prothonotary, clerk of the court of general quarter sessions and oyer and terminer, and another person to fill the offices of clerk of the orphans' court, register of wills and recorder of deeds, at the expiration of the terms of the persons now filling and exercising such offices in such counties, and the persons so elected shall hold such offices for the time and under the terms provided by existing laws therefor. 1893, June 12, P.L. 462, Sec. 1.