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260 of his county, the coroner shall be keeper thereof during the time the sheriff' shall remain a prisoner therein. The coroner shall receive the same fees as a sheriff, for like business.

. 32. The coroner shall perform all duties usually belonging to that office, and receive the usual compensation therefor. When the sheriff is sued, the coroner shall serve the papers on him.

. 33. The district attorney shall, before he enters on the duties of his office, take and subscribe an oath to support the constitution of the United States and the organic act organizing the Territory of Dakota, and faithfully and impartially discharge his duty to the best of his ability. He shall, also, execute a bond, with one or more sufficient sureties, to the board of county commissioners, to be approved by the register of deeds, in the sum of five hundred dollars, the condition of which bond shall be, that he will faithfully discharge the duties of the office of district attorney, and that he will pay over to the treasurer of his county all money which shall come into his hands by virtue of his office, which bond, together with the oath of office, shall be deposited in the office of register of deeds of such county.

. 34. It shall be the duty of the district attorneys of the several counties to appear in the district courts of their respective counties, and prosecute or defend on behalf of the county or territory all suits, indictments, applications, or motions, civil or criminal, in which the territory or county is interested as a party.

. 35. No district attorney shall receive any fee or reward, from or on behalf of any prosecution or other individual, for services in any prosecution or business to which it shall his duty to attend.

. 36. The district attorney shall receive five dollars for every prosecution before a justice of the peace, and ten dollars for every prosecution before the district court, in which he shall be engaged for the county or territory.

. 37. There shall not be less than two nor more than four justices of the peace in any one county, and the same number of constables.

. 38. All the officers mentioned in this bill, shall be elected at the first general election in Dakota Territory, for the term of two years.