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Persons now employed may be continued; but Board of Trade may regulate remuneration and may dismiss them, &c.
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9. The several persons now employed by the said president and governors or by the said boards of trustees at outports in any duties other than the collection of the duties payable under the said Acts shall, unless the Board of Trade otherwise directs, be continued in such employment, so far as the same may be requisite for the purposes of this Act; but the Board of Trade may alter and regulate the salaries or remuneration to be paid to such persons, and, if it appears to such board that their services may be dispensed with, may dismiss them, and may commit the performance of their duties to the shipping masters above mentioned, or to any other persons whom it may appoint for the purpose, and may also, in any cases in which it appears to such board just and proper so to do, grant to any persons so dismissed, and also to any persons now employed in the collection of duties, a fair and moderate compensation for any loss they may sustain by reason of this Act.
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