The secretary of state shall give bond to the state in the penalty of ten thousand dollars ($10,000.00), with two or more sufficient sureties to be approved by the governor, conditioned according to law. When approved, said bond shall be filed and preserved in the office of the clerk of the supreme court.Codes, 1871, § 117; 1880, § 202; 1892, § 4083; 1906, § 4635; Hemingway's 1917, § 7473; 1930, § 6932; 1942, § 4192.
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