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Register Office to consist of certain Officers.
Filling up Vacancies in the said Office.
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II. And be it further enacted, That the Establishment of the Said Register Office shall consist of a Registrar, Two Assistant Registrars, a First Clerk, and Two other Clerks, as named, and with the yearly Salaries mentioned in the Schedule, marked (A.) to this Act annexed, and of such a Number of additional Clerks and other Persons as the Service of the Office shall require; and that hereafter upon the happening of any Vacancy such Registrar and Assistant Registrars, and also the said First Clerk and Two other Clerks, shall be appointed by the Lord High Treasurer, or Commissioners of His Majesty’s Treasury, or any Three or more of them; and that the said Registrar and Assistant Registrars shall, previously to their entering upon the Duties of their respective Offices, each enter into a Recognizance in the Manner prescribed by the said Act or the Sixth Year of the Reign of Her Majesty Queen Anne, jointly with One or Two Sureties; and such Recognizance in respect of every future Registrar shall be in the Sum of Ten thousand Pounds, conditioned for the true and faithful Execution of the Duties Office, and with regard to each of the Assistant Registrars in Two thousand Pounds, with a like Condition, and with a further Condition to indemnify the Registrar against any Loss to be sustained by him through the Default or Negligence of such Assistant Registrars in the Execution of their Duties, or of the Orders or Directions given by the Registrar to them respectively; and such Recognizance in Ten thousand Pounds shall, at and from the next Vacancy, be in place and instead of the Recognizance theretofore required of the Registrar.
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