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Persons nominated to any of said offices shall first give 200l. security before a master, that it is not in trust for one who hath executed it in 3 years,
and that he a
will personally execute, and that all fees are to his or the high sheriff's use, and not to delay execution or return of writs.
The recognisance in two months to be returned in Exchequer.
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III. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That all and every person and persons, who shall after the said sixth day of November one thousand seven hundred and eleven be nominated, constituted, or appointed under-sheriffs, sheriffs-clerk, or county-clerk, within any county, or county of a city or town, shall, before he or they shall exercise, officiate, or in any manner execute the said office or duty of an under-sheriff, or sheriffs-clerk, enter into a recognizance to her Majesty, her heirs and successors, with sufficient security, in the penalty of two hundred pounds, before a master of the high court of Chancery, or before a master extraordinary for taking affidavits in the country, who are hereby authorized and required to take such recognizances, conditioned that he has not taken the said office, duty, or imployment, to the use of or in trust for any person or persons, who was or hath been under-sheriff or sheriffs-clerk, or executed either of the said offices or imployments in the said county, or county of a city or town, within the space of three years then next preceding, or any other person or persons in trust for such preceding sheriff, [Rep., Stat. Law Rev. (I.) Act, 1879] and that he will execute the same in person; and that all the fees and perquisites, benefits and advantages, of what nature or kind soever, are intirely to his own proper use, benefit, and advantage, or to the proper use, benefit, and advantage of the high sheriff, and that he neither shall or will forbear, postpone, or delay the execution or return of any writ or process, that shall come to his hands, or be lodged in the sheriff's office, for any gratuity, reward, or other consideration whatsoever; which said recognizance, so taken, shall be in two months after the taking thereof returned into her Majesty's court of Exchequer; for the recording of which recognizance shall be received the sum of two shillings and six pence, and no more.
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