Section XXIII. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That within ten days after the appointment of a county treasurer it shall be the duty of the county commissioners to grant such treasurer a certificate of his appointment, which shall be entered of record in the office of recorder of deeds of the county, without which certificate and recording thereof, no county treasurer shall act; and it shall be the duty of such recorder to report the name and time of appointment of such treasurer to the auditor-general for which service the said recorder shall be allowed fifty cents, to be paid by the said county treasurer; and all bonds given or hereafter to be given by county treasurers and their sureties for the faithful execution of the duties of such office, shall be considered binding on said treasurers and their sureties for all monies received by any such treasurers respectively, in their official capacity for the use of the commonwealth; and the county commissioners respectively, upon demand made by the state treasurer, shall furnish a copy under their seal of any such bond, which copy shall be legal and sufficient evidence in any suit to be brought thereon for the use of the commonwealth.
Compiler's Note: Section 3 of Act 213 of 1828 provided that so much of section 23 as makes treasurers, bonds, given to the commissioners a security for moneys of the Commonwealth is repealed.