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Registrar to have the Direction of the Office.
Assistant Registrars to take Affidavits and sign Documents.
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III. And whereas it is right that the Directions of the said Register Office should be confided to the Registrar; be it therefore enacted, That the Direction, Management, and Superintendence of all Departments in the Office shall devolve as his Duty upon the said Registrar: Provided always, that in order to facilitate the Business of the said Register Office, but nevertheless without in anywise diminishing the Responsibility of the Registrar for any Act to be done as next herein-after mentioned, that the Assistant Registrars respectively be and each Assistant Registrar is hereby empowered, for and on behalf of the Registrar, to take Affidavits, sign official Documents, and do all official Acts necessary in the Execution of the Duties of the Office; which Power shall continue after a Vacancy shall happen in the Office of Registrar until the said Office shall be again filled up, in as full and ample a Manner as if no Vacancy had occurred; and that the said Registrar shall, at his Pleasure, remove any or either of the Three Clerks or other Clerks or Persons employed on the Establishment, and also that he shall retain and employ such a Number of additional Clerks and other Persons as from Time to Time may be necessary for the due and punctual Discharge of the Duties of the said Office, and pay them weekly according to the Work done by them respectively, and also make to any of such supernumerary Clerks and other Persons such further occasional or temporary Allowances in Money as the Lord High Treasurer, or any Three of the Commissioners of His Majesty’s Treasury of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, by any Treasury Minute made in respect of a particular Case, or for the Purpose of constituting a general Scale of Allowance applicable to all Cases that may occur in the said Register Office, shall in that Behalf from Time to Time order or direct; and the said Assistant Registrars, and all the Clerks and other Persons employed, shall obey the Orders and Directions of the Registrar, as well with respect to Attendance as to the Duties which they respectively may be required to perform; and the Registrar and all Persons employed in the said Register Office shall perform the Duties of their respective Offices in Person; and the Assistant Registrars and Clerks shall not be absent from the said Office without Permission of the Registrar.
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