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CHAP. XXIII.] four thousand dollars, with two or more securities, to be approved by the board of county commissioners, and the approval indorsed thereon, conditioned that the said sheriff shall well and faithfully, in all things perform and execute the duties of sheriff, assessor, and collector of taxes, according to law, during his continuance in office, without fraud, deceit, or oppression, which bond shall filed in the office of register of deeds of his proper county.

. 17. The sheriff may appoint a deputy, who shall be empowered to perform all the duties devolving on the sheriff, the sheriff being responsible for the acts of his deputy, but no deputy shall be authorized to perform the duties of sheriff until he shall have taken an oath to support the constitution of the United States and the provisions of the act organizing the Territory of Dakota, and to perform the duties of his office faithfully and impartially, to the best of his ability, which oath shall be subscribed the back of his appointment, and filed and recorded in the office of register of deeds of the proper county.

. 18. It shall be the duty of the sheriffs to keep and preserve peace in their respective counties, for which purpose they are empowered to call to their aid such persons or power of their respective counties as they may deem necessary. They shall also pursue and apprehend all felons; they shall execute all writs, warrants, and other process from a justice of the peace or the district court, which shall be directed to them by legal authority. They shall attend at the district court, and the session of the board of county commissioners, when required by the latter to attend.

. 19. The sheriff shall serve or post up all notices he may receive from the register of deeds or the of county commissioners; he shall give notice of a special election when notified by the register of deeds, and notify the board of commissioners when any vacancy happens in the office of register of deeds; shall collect the county revenue, and pay over to the county treasurer all sums so collected, and take his receipt therefor, which receipt shall be a sufficient voucher for the board of commissioners to cancel the amount of such assessment roll charged in their books against said collector; and shall keep his office at the county seat, and shall generally do and perform all and singular the duties which are or