Whenever any person is elected to fill any of the county, township, or district offices in this state, such person, before taking possession of the office, shall procure from the county auditor of that person’s county a copy of the receipts filed with such auditor by the outgoing officer for any volumes of the laws of this state. Such copy of the receipt must be exhibited by the person    so elected to that person’s predecessor in office at the time the person assumes the duties of office, and the person shall require from that predecessor all the volumes of laws which the predecessor may have received as shown by such receipt. Such officer after having received from the predecessor the volumes of laws shall make out duplicate receipts of the same, one of which receipts the person shall give to the predecessor in office and the other of which the person shall transmit forthwith to the county auditor of the county, who shall file the same in the auditor’s office.