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Penalty on landlord, &c. neglecting to serve notice on relieving officer.
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6. In case the landlord or other person by whom or on whose behalf such writ, decree, order, or other process shall have heen sued out shall neglect or omit to serve the notice required by this Act to be served on the relieving officer, he shall forfeit and pay the sum of twenty pounds to the guardians of the union in which the land shall be situate; and such sum maybe recovered by civil bill or otherwise, and shall be applied in aid of the rates of the electoral division in which such land shall be situate, and, in case such landlord or other person shall be resident out of Ireland, may be recovered from him by action at law; and the service of process in such action on the attorney or agent by whom such writ, decree, order, or other process may have been sued out shall be good service on such landlord or other person as aforesaid.
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