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Collectors shall enter into security.
Grand jury to fix the poundage to be allowed.
Proviso.
Deputy collectors.
How securities may be put in suit.
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11. Provided always, that no person shall act as collector unless he shall have given security before the acting foreman of the grand jury at some presenting term, or before some justice of the peace, being a member of the finance committee (if such collector shall have been appointed by the finance committee), by two sufficient sureties, to be approved of by the grand jury or finance committee, joining with him in executing a bond and warrant of attorney, without stamp, to confess judgment to the secretary of the grand jury, conditioned for his duly collecting and paying into the Bank of Ireland, to the credit of the finance committee, from time to time, so long as he shall continue collector, or till the grand jury shall otherwise determine, all such public money as he is or shall be required to collect, and that he shall at no time retain in his possession a larger sum than one hundred pounds; and it shall be lawful for the grand jury to fix a sum not exceeding one shilling in the pound on the amount of the collection to be paid to each of the present collectors for his trouble therein, and a sum not exceeding nine-pence in the pound on the amount of the collection to be paid to every collector hereafter to be appointed for his trouble therein: Provided always, that no presentment for the payment of such poundage, or any balance thereof, shall be made by any grand jury, or fiated by the court, unless the warrant under which such collector has levied such public money shall be annexed to such presentment, nor unless such collector and his deputy respectively shall make affidavit before the acting foreman of the said grand jury that such public money has been fairly and impartially levied, and that no more than the sum authorized by the warrant has been collected, to the best of his and their knowledge and belief; and every collector as aforesaid may, by writing under his hand and seal, appoint a deputy collector or deputy collectors, for whom he shall be answerable, to assist him in collecting the public money; and every such bond, and any judgment entered thereon, shall vest in and may be sued for by the secretary of the grand jury for the time being, who shall be entitled to continue the proceedings of any former secretary on filing a suggestion stating his appointment to such office, or on his making it otherwise appear to the court in which such proceeding may be pending that he is the acting secretary.
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