Pennsylvania Statutes Title 16 P.S. Counties § 9875. Penalty for neglecting to make indexes, or keep judgment docket

It shall further be the duty of each and every of the officers mentioned in the fourth section of this act,  1 to make, prepare and keep in their several offices all such indexes as are by this act directed to be made, prepared and kept, and if any such officer shall refuse or neglect to make, prepare and keep, any such index as aforesaid, and shall be thereof convicted, the court of quarter sessions of the peace of the proper county, shall for every such offence impose a fine upon such officer, of not less than ten or more than fifty dollars, for the use of such county, the payment of which fine shall be enforced as the payment of other fines imposed by said courts are now enforced; and if any such officer shall at the expiration of his term of office, have neglected to make, prepare and keep such indexes as aforesaid, for the time or any part of the time, he may have been in office, the county commissioners of the proper county shall direct the official bond or recognizance of such officer to be put in suit, for the use of the county, and such suit or suits shall be proceeded in, as is done in other cases of suits upon official bonds or recognizances, and there shall be recovered in such case or cases, for the use of the county, the amount of the cost and charges of making and preparing such index or indexes as may as aforesaid be wanting, besides costs of suit; and any prothonotary who shall neglect to prepare and keep the judgment docket, directed to be prepared and kept by this act, shall be liable to like fines and suits upon his official bond or recognizance, as he would be for refusing or neglecting to make, prepare and keep the indexes which this act makes it his duty to make prepare and keep. And in such last mentioned case or cases, there shall be recovered for the use of the proper county, a sum or sums sufficient to pay the cost and charge of making and preparing such judgment docket, for and during the time such prothonotary shall have neglected to prepare and keep the same.