Section 1

Section 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, in general assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, that whenever the inhabitants of any of the townships in any county within this commonwealth, authorised by the act to which this is a supplement, to elect and return to the court of quarter sessions, some fit person for a town clerk, shall neglect so to elect and make return, the court are hereby authorised to appoint some fit person for the office aforesaid, which person when appointed and notified thereof by the court, shall have and possess all power and authority, and perform the same duty as is vested in and enjoined on the town clerk elected in the manner prescribed by the act to which this is a supplement, and be subject to similar penalties for neglect of duty.