Every such clerk may, by instrument in writing, by permission of the board of county commissioners, appoint one or more deputies, and shall file such appointments in his office; and said deputies shall have such authority as the clerk may delegate, and, in case of a vacancy in the office of county clerk, shall fill such vacancy until a county clerk shall be appointed or elected.
Okla. Stat. tit. 19, § 242
Appointment of deputies
R.L. 1910, § 1565.
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